Tag: non-thinking
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Bacteria. Viruses. Good. Bad...
Normally, you wouldn't want to have anything to do with Clostridium novyi. The rod-shaped bacterium is commonly found in soil, manure or under rotting leaves. When it invades a human body, it releases flesh-eating toxins. The last place you would hope to find it is in a hospital. But researchers used a modified version of…
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ASMR; Being; Non-thinking.
A few months ago, STEPHANIE FAIRYINGTON was on a Manhattan-bound D train heading to work when a man with a chunky, noisy newspaper got on and sat next to her. As she watched him softly turn the pages of his paper, a chill spread like carbonated bubbles through the back of her head, instantly relaxing…
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Absolute synchronization. Non-thinking...
The human mind can rapidly absorb and analyze new information as it flits from thought to thought. These quickly changing brain states may be encoded by synchronization of brain waves across different brain regions, according to a new study from MIT neuroscientists. The researchers found that as monkeys learn to categorize different patterns of dots,…
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IBM, Watson, non-thinking...
IBM's Watson supercomputer has already mastered Jeopardy! and can even whip up an innovative recipe. Next step: it'll be elected to the presidency after dominating against humans in a series of debates. The computer's new Debater function is what it sounds like: after being given a topic, Watson will mine millions of Wikipedia articles until it…
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I smell something... Don't think about it!
The intricate neural wiring that carries smells to the brain locks into place soon after birth, two new mouse studies suggest. The results, published in the April 11 Science, identify a window of time in which the olfactory system can be scrambled. Once that window closes, the network becomes cemented into the brain, even as…
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