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Sleep on It: How Snoozing Makes You Smarter: Scientific AmericanDuring slumber, our brain engages in data analysis, from strengthening memories to solving problems
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How the Mind Works: Revelations - The New York Review of BooksSynthesizes much of the recent popular writing about neuroscience
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Charades reveals a universal sentence structure - being-human - 30 June 2008 - New ScientistRegardless of the players' native tongues, non-verbal communication takes the same sentence structure anywhere on the globe
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Shifting Careers - Fighting a Workplace War Against Distraction - NYTimes.comThe exciting news is that the enigma of attention has just begun to be mapped, tracked and decoded by neuroscientists who now consider attention to be a trio of skills: focus, awareness and so-called executive attention. Think of it this way: You can be “aware” that you’re in a beautiful garden ...
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IEEE Spectrum: The Consciousness ConundrumSpectrum Online is the member publication of the IEEE, the world's leading society for engineering technology, computer engineering, and communications technologies.
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IEEE Spectrum: Can Machines Be Conscious?Spectrum Online is the member publication of the IEEE, the world's leading society for engineering technology, computer engineering, and communications technologies.
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Brain's wiring seen in TechnicolorResearchers in the US have developed a technique that could allow neurologists to draw a detailed wiring plan of the mammalian brain by inserting genes coding for fluorescent proteins into mice. Dubbed 'Brainbow', the system reveals individual neurons within the nervous system in up to 90 ...
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Is this a unified theory of the brain? - being-human - 28 May 2008 - New ScientistA researcher claims to have discovered a model that describes the entire brain in one fell swoop. Gregory T Huang does some hard thinking
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What's that name? - The Boston GlobeLATE IN 1988, a 41-year-old Italian hardware clerk arrived in his doctor's office with a bizarre complaint. Although he could recognize people, and remember all sorts of information about them, he had no idea what to call them. He'd lost the ability to remember any personal name, even the names ...
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