Category: Mind Philosophy
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Reading… Believing in parallel lines…
Neuroscientists at UC Davis have come up with a way to observe brain activity during natural reading. It's the first time researchers have been able to study the brain while reading actual texts, instead of individual words, and it's already helping settle some ideas about just how we read. The team has applied the technology…
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Remembering history…
Americans recognize 'past presidents' who never were, study finds: among the names that many Americans mistakenly identify as belonging to a past president of the United States, finds a new study by memory researchers. [1] But what if we all remembered false facts as history? What if we all forgot true facts as history? Wouldn’t…
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Consciousness brain research: The scientific dogmatism of the philosophically untrained. [OR: TV: A new episode]
Intensive experimental research is conducted to understand how brain circuits control sleep-wake cycle and consciousness - an enigma in modern Neurosciences and an exciting key mystery to resolve. Together with fellow researcher Carolina Gutierrez Herrera and colleagues from Germany, Adamantidis made a dual discovery: his team identified a new circuit in the brain of mice…
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Changing the brain. Closing the TV…
Scientists showed that they could alter brain activity of rats and either wake them up or put them in an unconscious state by changing the firing rates of neurons in the central thalamus, a region known to regulate arousal. The study, published in eLIFE, was partially funded by the National Institutes of Health. (1) Increasing…
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Sleep. Walk. Feel no pain…
A new study of sleepwalkers found an intriguing paradox: Although sleepwalkers have an increased risk for headaches and migraines while awake, during sleepwalking episodes they are unlikely to feel pain even while suffering an injury. Results show that sleepwalkers were nearly 4 times more likely than controls to report a history of headaches (odds…
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