Brain, Mind and Consciousness
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This twine will contain information related to brain,mind, neuroscience, learning and behavior. The recent findings in Cognitive/Affective/Behavioral neuroscience that provide empirical basis for behavior and learning. Also, the brain functions that lead to emergent properties of mind and shed light on the concept of consciousness.
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Basics - A Molecule of Motivation, Dopamine Excels at Its Task - NYTimes.comDopamine is also part of the brain’s salience filter, its get-a-load-of-this device. “You can’t pay attention to everything, but you want to be adept as an organism at recognizing things that are novel,” Dr. Volkow said. “You might not notice a fly in the room, but if that fly was fluorescent, ...
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Deric Bownds' MindBlog: Like us, monkeys don't like computer faces that are 'too real'.Very realistic human-looking robots or computer avatars tend to elicit negative feelings in human observers. This phenomenon is known as the “uncanny valley” response. It is hypothesized that this uncanny feeling is because the realistic synthetic characters elicit the concept of “human,” but ...
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Deric Bownds' MindBlog: Our left and right hemispheres can selectively track expected valueA main focus in economics is on binary choice situations, in which human agents have to choose between two alternative options. The classical view is that decision making consists of valuating each option, comparing the two expected values, and selecting the higher one. Some neural correlates of ...
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Whole Brain Catalog™Make new connections with the Whole Brain Catalog™ An open source, downloadable, multi-scale, virtual catalog of the mouse brain and its cellular constituents. This next generation open environment has been developed by a team of researchers from the UC San Diego to connect members of the ...
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Slashdot Science Story | Researchers Implant Neural-Monitoring RFID Into a MothA team from the University of Washington has attached an RFID chip capable of sensing neural activity to a live moth, to pick up the spikes that occur as it beats its wings. Most neural implants are still relatively bulky, but the Washington researchers wanted to show the components in an RFID ...
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2Researchers unlock the 'sound of learning' by linking sensory and motor systemsDUH. Nice that what we already pretty much intuitively knew is not proven though ...JDP added 4 days ago
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Networks, Complexity, and RelatednessFrench research, Jacques Fradin, demonstrated that stress is a signal form the neo cortex to the reptilian saying : "you are managing a situation wrongly because you are recruiting the in adapted brain (mainly the limbic) to solved a complex situation" Shift form limbic to neo cortex (pre ...Jean-Luc Roux added 5 days ago
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Never Say Die: Why We Can't Imagine Death: Scientific AmericanIn Buddhism they give a passed-down account of reincarnation but it is not sufficient for our understanding today, as the information inside the account has been degrading by passing down. So we cannot find the answer from religions today. If the question is wrong then the answer comes out ...soulstay added 2 weeks ago
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1Now, a computer model that can figure out what you’re thinking (Re-issue)Same Experiment?aggregators added 4 weeks ago
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Computer model knows what you're thinking : Nature Newswe need an account or to pay to view this full article, could you copy&paste the article into a comment?Max Wang added 4 weeks ago
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