Harmonia Philosophica

Category: Brain

Brain, Brain, Illusion, Listening, Others, Phenomena illusion, Self

2019/01/26

Hearing internal voices. The same as listening to other…

As far our brain is concerned, talking to ourselves in our heads may be fundamentally the same as speaking our thoughts out loud, new research shows. The findings may have important implications for understanding why people with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia hear voices. UNSW Sydney scientist and study first author Associate Professor Thomas Whitford…
Brain, Brain, Complex-Simple, Humbleness, Research, Science, Scientism

2019/01/22

Implanting information directly in the brain… So?

Two neuroscientists at the University of Rochester say they have managed to introduce information directly into the premotor cortex of monkeys. The researchers published the results of the experiment in the journal Neuron. Although the research is preliminary, carried out in just two monkeys, the researchers speculated that further research might lead to brain implants…
Brain, Brain, Reality, Reality, Senses

2019/01/06

Blinking brain.

When your attention shifts from one place to another, your brain blinks. The blinks are momentary unconscious gaps in visual perception and came as a surprise to the team of Vanderbilt psychologists who discovered the phenomenon while studying the benefits of attention. "Attention is beneficial because it increases our ability to detect visual signals even…
Brain, Brain, Free will, Music, Stupid research

2018/12/29

Forcing people to enjoy (or dislike) music. Free will. As long as it is… free!

Researchers from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of McGill University have proven it is possible to increase or decrease our enjoyment of music, and our craving for more of it, by enhancement or disruption of certain brain circuits. In order to modulate the functioning of fronto-striatal circuits, the researchers from the lab of Robert…
Brain, Brain, Forgetting, Memory

2018/12/13

Remembering… (for no reason at all)

Recalling the names of old classmates 50 years after graduation or of favorite childhood television series illustrates the amazing abilities of human memory. Emotion and repeated exposure are both known to play a role in long-term memorization, but why do we remember things that are not emotionally charged and have only been seen or experienced…

Category: Brain

Hearing internal voices. The same as listening to other…

Implanting information directly in the brain… So?

Blinking brain.

Forcing people to enjoy (or dislike) music. Free will. As long as it is… free!

Remembering… (for no reason at all)