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Toward a Science of Consciousness 2010
Second Announcement and Call for Abstracts Toward a Science of Consciousness, April 12-17, 2010 Tucson Convention Center, Tucson, Arizona Abstract Submission Deadline December 31, 2009 Conference website:www.consciousness.arizo...
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Wired for Hunger: The Brain and Obesity
From the Dana Foundation:For most of human history, food was not readily available; storing energy helped ensure survival. Humans thus evolved to eat whenever food is at hand-a tendency that in the modern world may contribute t...
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Consciousness: Two College-Level Webcourses
ANNOUNCEMENT / REMINDER CONSCIOUSNESS: THE WEBCOURSE & ADVANCED SEMINAR:AN INTRODUCTION TO MIND AND BRAIN With Dr. Bernard J. Baars Center for Consciousness Studies The University of Arizona See website for course outline a...
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Theta Rhythm and Memory Performance
In a recent study, Sebastian Guderian and colleagues examined the relation between theta oscillations and memory performance. During the study phase of this memory experiment, participants were presented with words and either p...
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What Can Dance Teach Us about Learning?
From the Dana Foundation: We might begin to learn a dance step when someone describes it to us, but we learn it better when we physically perform the steps as we observe and imitate an instructor doing them. Scott Grafton’...
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Alpha Oscillations, Attention and Consciousness
One way to describe brain activity measured by EEG or MEG is by its frequency content. Frequencies can be categorized into one of the following ranges: low, middle and high. The low frequencies include the delta and theta range...
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1/f Scaling and Emergent Pattern Formation in Complex Systems
1/f scaling (or 1/f noise) refers to a scaling relation followed by fluctuations that have been widely observed in nature. 1/f fluctuations have been observed ubiquitously across different disciplines of science (e.g. chemistry...
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Lucid Dreaming: A State of Consciousness with Features of Both Waking and Non-Lucid Dreaming
U. Voss, R. Holzmann, I. Tuin, J.A. Hobson Article in Sleep Abstract Study Objectives: The goal of the study was to seek physiological correlates of lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is a dissociated state with aspects of waking a...
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Causal role of prefrontal cortex in the threshold for access to consciousness
A. Del Cul, S. Dehaene, P. Reyes, E. Bravo, A. Slachevsky Article in Brain Abstract What neural mechanisms support our conscious perception of briefly presented stimuli? Some theories of conscious access postulate a key role of...
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Web-based Courses on Consciousness
Center for Consciousness Studies announces FALL 2009 Registration OPEN November 14, 2009 to FEBRUARY 7, 2010 CONSCIOUSNESS: THE WEBCOURSE and ADVANCED SEMINAR: AN INTRODUCTION TO MIND AND BRAIN Both taught by Dr. Bernard J. Baars