Posts Tagged ‘neuroscience’
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...
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The Next Generation Brain Atlas
Brainmaps.org is the neuroscience analog, giving us the most detailed and complete set of images of the inner universe.
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Complex Architecture of our Neurons
Greg Dunn is an artist that creates dazzling works of enamel, gold leaf and ink inspired by science.
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Catch the Wavelets
If you are learning about wavelets for the first time, or if you need a good refresher, this is the site to visit first. After all, it’s #1 on Google.
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PhET Sims + Science Literacy
PhET’s mission is to increase science literacy, especially for nonscientists.
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The Mind’s Laughter: fMRI from Japan.
Whether you know it or not, your brain acts out the words you hear. For example, a study led by Naoyuki Osaka of Kyoto University (Japan) shows that the motor cortex revs up in response to words like "belly laugh.”
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Ignorance: How It Drives Science
Firestein (a neurobiologist at Columbia University) takes us outside of the lab meetings, popular-science books, journal papers, and public talks where scientists promote what they already know and invites us into the bars and ...
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Brain Info
BrainInfo helps one identify structures in the brain. One can either search by a structure name or locate the structure in a brain atlas and get information such as its location in the classical brain hierarchy, images of the s...
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The Search for Me
With the help of a hammer-wielding scientist, Jennifer Aniston and a general anaesthetic, Professor Marcus du Sautoy goes in search of answers to one of science's greatest mysteries: how do we know who we are?
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Cool Runnings: Notable websites for consciousness science
Consciousness science is highly interdisciplinary, and Cool Runnings will reflect this, featuring sites from all over the pedagogical map.