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Interactive Wiring of Cortex and Thalamus
The part of the brain that supports conscious contents is the cortex and thalamus. Modha and Singh showed the long-distance link in this system as a mandala....
Your Cortex is Flat
The cortex is a flat sheet, shown beautifully here by Van Essen et al (see the Van Essen Lab at the University of St. Louis). This is the six-layered sheet of cells and fibers that makes up our cortex, the "neo-cortex" (because...
The Mind’s Laughter: fMRI from Japan.
Whether you know it or not, your brain acts out the words you hear. For example, a study led by Naoyuki Osaka of Kyoto University (Japan) shows that the motor cortex revs up in response to words like "belly laugh.”
Healing the ‘Split’ between science and the humanities.
It's high time to heal the split between the "Two Cultures."
Breakthrough: A brain measure of consciousness?
Effective connectivity refers to a causal link between two or more brain areas, as if signal traffic can now flow over a highway system.
Walter Freeman: The Dance of Consciousness
he challenger and the Matrix. Dr. Walter J. Freeman is a professor of Neurobiology at the University of California at Berkeley. He received an M.D. from Yale University. He completed postdoctoral training in neurophysiology at...
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The Kim Kardashian hypothesis of beauty.
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