Posts Tagged ‘consciousness’
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...
Sci2Art
The Evolving Third Culture
he Art|Sci Center is dedicated to pursuing and promoting the evolving “Third Culture” by facilitating the infinite potential of collaborations between (media) arts and (bio/nano) sciences. The center’s affiliation with th...
Sci2Art
Complex Architecture of our Neurons
Greg Dunn is an artist that creates dazzling works of enamel, gold leaf and ink inspired by science.