Posts Tagged ‘neuroscience’
brain networks
AD-ENM server: computing with elastic network models
http://enm.lobos.nih.gov/ Modelers run into trouble when very high degree of freedom models need to be calculated. Not many of us have supercomputers to use, or even access to one. So theoreticians a...
brain networks
Fun with oscillations
http://www.myphysicslab.com/spring1.html Oscillations are an ubiquitous – shall we say archetypal – form for which Mother Nature has special fondness. I recall a discussion by physicist Richard Feynman where he stated somet...
altered states
Get relaxed and that’s an order!
http://www.eegproject.com/index.html In his best-selling book PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS, Dr. Maxwell Maltz introduced the Relaxation Response, a volitional program for turning OFF the fight-fl...
abnormal psych
Quora, when you just have to have intelligent responses
https://www.quora.com/ You are obsessed with a question. Your sleep is interrupted. When you are sleeping, you dream about the question. You have discussed it with all the usual ...
artificial intelligence
mCRL2: Are there process algebras in our brain?
When Cool Runnings had its one year birthday recently, we took time to reflect on what kind of sites we had come to particularly value. They had to do with neuroscience, of course, and when possible, with consciousness s...
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 ...
Cool Runnings
The secret of all life: Differential equations
When British mathematician and educator David Acheson was in elementary school, his biology teacher, Ms. H., always gave the same test questions each week. Question 23 was What is the secret of all life? Her answer was chloroph...
computational neuroscience
Using tetration for recursion: more movement for brain science
The problem of conceptualizing movement is one of the oldest human problems. Conceptual models are first static, and only grudgingly ach...
brain experiments
R: free software programming language for statistics and graphics
Statistical analysis has been a bête noire for many students in neuroscience. And yet of all the maths available, statistical analysis has been the real work horse for neuroscie...
altered states
Mental physics
Mullah Nasruddin embodies the way of the wise fool to which one aspires with increasing maturity: One day, people saw Mullah Nasruddin...