Posts Tagged ‘My Conscious Brain’
Scicon Review
A Unique Approach to Science Education
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.
beauty and esthetics
Women not to blame for obesity – but estrogens might be.
Around the world it is estimated that 1.4 BILLION individuals are overweight — a previously unknown problem in history, when food deprivation, famine, and day-long physical work were much more common. But why is...
archeology of mind
The Kim Kardashian hypothesis of beauty.
Here is a response I just wrote to a new article by Leonid Perlovsky, “Aeshetic emotions, what are their cognitive functions?” (See here, here, and here). Perlovsky raises the classical question, “Why do we fe...
coma
Be nice to your Precuneus – it might be your real self…
The hardest thing about the brain is learning the labels. Let’s take the Precuneus as example. It’s one of the most important parts of our brains, so much that we would be totally lost without it (Literally). In ...
aging
Turn the lights off when you sleep: Melatonin and cancer treatment.
A spectacular study by Dauchy (et al, 2014) shows that sleeping in total darkness makes a big difference in anti-cancer treatment. The drug tamoxifen is widely used to treat breast cancer. But tamoxifen interacts with the body...
attachment
You couldn’t be cuter — the power of the baby schema.
Facebook has it figured out: Baby faces make us feel good, they draw our attention. (Plus pictures of ladies with physically impossible breasts, judging by how often we see them in Facebook and the like). Baby faces have certa...
mammalian brain
From The Web – 7 kittens and a flying toy
A spectacular video of eye-paw coordination in 3-month old kittens. It could almost be faked, but it’s not. The kittens have different fur patterns, and their movements are not exactly timed. But it’s darned close!...
attention
The sexiest mammal on earth?
Meadow voles could show Miss Piggy a thing or two. (Copyright Disney, under fair use, via Wikipedia). Consider the love life of the meadow vole, the sexiest little mammal on Planet Earth. Voles are small mouse-like mammals wh...
aging
Microbes may trigger Alzheimer’s Disease.
A fascinating update on Alzheimer’s Dementia has just been published by James Hill and colleagues in Frontiers in Aging. AD is a lethal form of brain degeneration. It is currently incurable, and is now one of the major cause...
My Conscious Brain
Where does visual input become conscious? (Baars, hat tip to Prof. Alumit Ishai)
There are at least forty visual “maps” in the visual cortex — each sensitive to a different aspect of vision. The first map in visual cortex, conveniently dubbed V1, responds to a visual scene pixel-by-pixel. At higher le...
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