Posts Tagged ‘memory’
brain experiments
NOVA beta
Please put away your books and notes, it’s time for a quiz. Circle the answer below which best represents the date of the first computer. 1822 CE 70 BCE 1206 CE 1941 CE 2700 BCE Depending on your perspective, and wh...
abnormal psych
Will what is missing solve consciousness?
In the world of scientific discovery and entrepaneurship, scholars often seem like the homeless of the institutional world. Yet in the midden of overwhelming masses of informatio...
art
ConneXions
From the website: Connexions is: a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute: authors create ...
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...
Scicon Review
“Erasing” Traumatic Memories Moving from Science Fiction to Scientific Reality
From: TheGlobeandMail.com The brain has a remarkable capacity for keeping track of our past experiences. But detailed memories can sometimes seem more a curse than a blessing. This is especially true for those who’ve suffered...
Scicon Review
Cosmic Symphony — A Deeper Look at Quantum Consciousness
From: ErvinLaszlo.com The rise of quantum consciousness could be the biggest step our species has taken since it came down from the trees. It would bring us to a new stage of species maturity and could also enable us to surm...
Scicon Review
Long-term Memories The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
From The Dana Foundation Editor’s note: Traumatic memories haunt the lives of people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and other illnesses. Fortunately, recent research into the changeability of long-ter...
Scicon Review
The Default Network: Your Mind, on Its Own Time
From The Dana Foundation: Studies about the brain usually focus on neural activity during the completion of a specific task—remembering a series of words, for example. But over the last 20 years, researchers have been interes...
Scicon Review
Could an Experimental Memory Drug Put an End to “Senior Moments”?
From: Discover Magazine Online: A new drug seems to be able to reverse normal age-related memory decline in old mice–like a face-lift for neurons, bringing them back to their younger days. The results of the experimental trea...