Posts Tagged ‘mind’
abnormal psych
See cartoons: The new New Yorker science site
Dramatic pictures and funny cartoons! Serious science and trending technology! Snappy editing and peppy prose! How would you pitch such a thing? Like combining National Geographic, Scientific American and The New Yorker ...
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...
altered states
If the conscious self is an illusion – who is it that’s being fooled?
This weblog – http://www.consciousentities.com/ – authored by Peter Hankins started as an attempt to quickly dispense with the problems that others were having with consciousness – a few pithy, essays, world enlig...
abnormal psych
What I did on my summer vacation: mind hacks
When faced with a huge task, a truly humungous task which stretches out over the horizon and with no sensible timely end – bailing out the ever-expanding oceans with a tea spoon is a commonly thought of example – it’s...
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 ...
MBSci
Mind, meet brain? Howwayya?
I live in a little room called my mind, a warm and homey place. Sure it gets a little messy now and then, and I feel like cleaning out the mess, but then it’s my mind, and don’t you criticize what you can’t u...
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...
Scicon Review
Bobby McFerrin Hacks Your Brain with Music
Enjoy this short, amusing video on the power of our human brain with regard to music. From: Ted.com Interesting comments: Jeff Weir Dec 4 2010: I think beyond the “predictive” nature of the human brain, there lies t...
Scicon Review
Mental Training Through Meditation Enhances Attentional Stability
A. Lutz, H. Slagter, et al. Article in Journal of Neuroscience Abstract The capacity to stabilize the content of attention over time varies among individuals, and its impairment is a hallmark of several mental illnesses. Impair...
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