Posts Tagged ‘consciousness’
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Zoran Josipovic, PhD: The Functioning of Anti-Correlated Neural Networks
Dr. Zoran Josipovic is the Director/Principal Investigator of the Contemplative Science Lab, a Research Associate and an Adjunct Professor at Psychology Department and Center for Neural Science, New York University. His main in...
brain imaging
Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy, PhD: Value Based Decision Making + Ethics in Research
Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy, PhD is Senior Researcher and heading the Decision Neuroscience Research Group, a collaboration between the Copenhagen Business School and the Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance. Ramsøy was...
animal minds
David Edelman, PhD: Neural Correlates of Consciousness in Non-human Animals
David Edelman, PhD is an Associate Fellow in Experimental Neurobiology at The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, California and an Assistant Professor of Neurobiology at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla. One of his...
brain imaging
Nicole Gage, PhD: Understanding Temporal Dynamics of Auditory Language Processing
A central focus of our research is understanding the temporal dynamics of auditory language processing. We use a combination of brain imaging techniques such as anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (aMRI), Magnetoencephalograp...
cognitive neuroscience
Stan Franklin, PhD: Consciousness, LIDA Model of Cognition and a Non-linear Dynamics View
As always, I’m thinking about how minds work. Our evolving answer to that question is in the form of a broad based, systems level cognitive model at a more conceptual level than brains, but still based on the underlying n...
MBSci
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....
MBSci
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...
Studio One
Scientific Integration + Media Synthesis = The Feeling Brain
Better communication in science and education can have vast ripple effects for advancing creativity, innovation, entrepreneurialism and humanity.
Sci2Art
Eric Kandel: Understanding the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain
A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our cons...