Tag: senses
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Crates of Mallus globe. Logic. Seeing.
Crates of Mallus created a globe. Imagined people living in the opposite (symmetric) place of the globe. He found America. Long before we found America. With his mind alone. (1) With logic you can see things before you see them. Even though (or Because?) logic is in the first place based on what you have…
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Reality. Imagination. Opposite directions...
As real as that daydream may seem, its path through your brain runs opposite reality. Aiming to discern discrete neural circuits, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have tracked electrical activity in the brains of people who alternately imagined scenes or watched videos. During imagination, the researchers found an increase in the flow of information…
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Stable mind. Unstable mind. Learning. Being.
Mathematical model shows how brain remains stable during learning. Complex biochemical signals that coordinate fast and slow changes in neuronal networks keep the brain in balance during learning, according to an international team of scientists. Neuronal networks form a learning machine that allows the brain to extract and store new information from its surroundings via…
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Microscopes as the Death of Science...
Two Americans and a German researcher on Wednesday were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work fine-tuning optical microscopy so that molecular processes could be viewed in real time. The 2014 laureates in chemistry are Eric Betzig of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia; Stefan W. Hell of the Max Planck Institute…
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I am wet. But how would I "know" it?
Though it seems simple, feeling that something is wet is quite a feat because our skin does not have receptors that sense wetness. UK researchers propose that wetness perception is intertwined with our ability to sense cold temperature and tactile sensations such as pressure and texture. (1) Everything we know is based on our senses.…
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