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Human Brain is Capable of Subliminal Conditioning, Study Shows
From The Dana Foundation: Imagine you are playing a game of poker. Watching your opponent, you have a gut feeling that if you raise the bet, he will fold. You decide to go with your intuition and it works. Were you just lucky? ...
Art Teams With Science to Explain It All to You
From NY Times (Oct 31, 2008): The taste of a ripe tomato, the hook of a catchy song, the scent of a lover’s hair. What is it, exactly, that drives us to seek these things again and again? Neuroscientists who study perce...
Online papers on consciousness
David Chalmers had compiled a directory of 2573 online papers on consciousness and related topics. Most of these papers are by academic philosophers or scientists. Click here to check out this great online resource.
Theta phase synchrony and conscious target perception: Impact of intensive mental training
Heleen A. Slagter, Antoine Lutz, Lawrence L. Greischar, Sander Nieuwenhuis, and Richard J. Davidson. Article in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Abstract The information processing capacity of the human mind is limited, as is...
The Problem of Consciousness
John R. Searle Copyright John R. Searle. Click here for complete online text. The most important scientific discovery of the present era will come when someone — or some group — discovers the answer to the followi...
Is surfing the internet altering your brain?
From Reuters: CANBERRA (Reuters) – The Internet is not just changing the way people live but altering the way our brains work with a neuroscientist arguing this is an evolutionary change which will put the tech-savvy at t...
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