Posts Tagged ‘neuroscience’
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Breakthrough: A brain measure of consciousness?
Effective connectivity refers to a causal link between two or more brain areas, as if signal traffic can now flow over a highway system.
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Consciousness and Neuronal Connections
You are connected not just via Facebook and the Internet, you're actually quite literally connected by your neurons.
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Measure Sound of Pins Dropping
"...making a bridge between the laboratory science and real life is the only way to get kids into having a passion about it."
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Can Someone in a Vegetative State Communicate?
In this short video (about 4 mins) from the New York Times, David Corcoran discusses evidence from an fMRI study that suggests that people in a vegetative state can communicate thoughts.
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Walter Freeman: The Dance of Consciousness
he challenger and the Matrix. Dr. Walter J. Freeman is a professor of Neurobiology at the University of California at Berkeley. He received an M.D. from Yale University. He completed postdoctoral training in neurophysiology at...
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Gerald Edelman on Consciousness & Neurophilosophy
Dr. Gerald Edelman discusses the brain, consciousness, Neural Darwinism, the theory of neuronal group selection (TNGS), and re-entrant feedback connections.
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Gerald Edelman: From Brain Dynamics to Consciousness + How Matter Becomes Imagination
Suppose we did understand everything about how your brain works ... So, do you think it would not work by beliefs, desires, and intentions?
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Brain Awareness Week is Coming
From The Dana Foundation: March 14-20, 2011 is Brain Awareness Week. Join the global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research. Become a partner and plan an event or find an event in y...
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How Brain Activity is Linked to Sleep
From: PsychCentral.com Brain activity during times of wakefulness affects sleep and sleep quality. While researchers have been aware of this for some time, a clear understanding of how the mechanisms triggering sleep occur has ...
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What Makes You Uniquely You?
From: Discovermagazine.com Feb 2009 Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman says your brain is one-of-a-kind in the history of the universe. Some of the most profound questions in science are also the least tangible. What does it mean to...