Posts Tagged ‘perception’
Sci2Art
Flow in the Zone 2013
A Global Perspective on the Inner Experience of the Traditional Artist ‘Flow’ is a widely referenced concept characterized as “a mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing, ...
brain experiments
Good ol’ RasMol: Molecular modeling for the masses
Chemical effects on the brain are both fascinating and necessary for survival. Endogenous neuromodulators and neurotransmitters and their receptors are switches whi...
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...
abnormal psych
Technology, Entertainment, Design Talks
TED Talks Has anyone not heard of TED Talks? Apparently, because I still often find people who respond to mention of TED Talks in a way that reminds me of the old joke about medical students: Why do medical students have hunche...
brain imaging
Walter J. Freeman: How Brains Generate Meaning
Walter J. Freeman III, MD, PhD is an American biologist, theoretical neuroscientist and philosopher who has conducted pioneering research in how brains generate meaning. He is Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology and Member, Grad...
Cool Runnings
Putting the weird back into the hard
Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon with the kind of weirdness we have come to appreciate in worlds of the Planck regime. The search for understanding in consciousness science leaves no formalism unexamined. Serious people are...
MBSci
Consciousness Online: Hakwan Lau on the Higher-Order Theory of Consciousness
Hakwan Lau, a cognitive neuroscientist at Columbia University and the Donders Institute, is interested in empirically testing philosophical theories of consciousness. In this talk he presents the results of his experiments that...
Sci2Art
Moran Cerf, PhD: Perception Squared
Moran Cerf, Ph.D., is neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology (‘Caltech’), UCLA department of neurosurgery and New York University. Dr. Cerf studies the neural basis of consciousness. His research fo...
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...
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