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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Intel's Mind-Reading Chips: Replace Your Mouse With Your BrainYou know those neat mind-control toys? Well, Intel has some grand plans for mind control that go far beyond their limited power. By 2020, the company's researchers plan to have chips that let you control computers with your thoughts. intel brain
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Three of a kind: Revealing language’s universal essenceOn the surface, English, Japanese, and Kinande, a member of the Bantu family of languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have little in common. It is not just that the vocabularies of these three languages are vastly different; many of their rules of grammar diverge too. Consider ...
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Search engines are source of learningSearch engine use is not just part of our daily routines; it is also becoming part of our learning process, according to Penn State researchers. The researchers sought to discover the cognitive processes underlying searching. They examined the search habits of 72 participants while conducting a ...
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Jacques Vallee: Waterboarding's curious corollaries - Boing BoingWhen it was revealed that the U.S. resorted to torture to extract information from prisoners, many people my age must have had a very somber thought for the thousands of young Americans who had given their lives on the beaches of Normandy in a brave effort to rid the world of governments that ...
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Bob Sutton: Testosterone Levels, Top Dogs, and Collective Group ConfidenceMy favorite behavioral science website, BPS Research Digest, posted a summary of an amazingly weird and rather troubling psychological experiment. The upshot is that people --- both men and women --- vary in testosterone levels and (no surprise), when people with high testosterone levels aren't ...
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1Jacques Vallee: Waterboarding's curious corollaries - Boing BoingAh, but maybe there ARE "truth drugs" or techniques. In this case however, the administration wanted a particular result (confirmation of their claims) - SO, they did NOT want to use an "infallible" method of obtaining the truth, which MIGHT not give "confirmation" of what they wanted to hear! ...JDP added 32 hours ago
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1Researchers 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
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13Now, a computer model that can figure out what you’re thinking (Re-issue)Same Experiment?aggregators added 6 weeks ago
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