Tag: thinking
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Sounds, language, space, hidden knowledge...
Ηave you ever wondered why most natural languages invariably use the same spatial attributes -- high versus low -- to describe auditory pitch? Or why, throughout the history of musical notation, high notes have been represented high on the staff? According to a team of neuroscientists from Bielefeld University and the Max Planck Institute for…
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Transplants, wisdom, (un)learning...
There's a better way to deal with rejection. People who have received a donor organ need to take a host of toxic drugs to stop their immune system attacking it. Soon they might just have their immune system rebooted – making it accept the new organ. (1) Your body shows the way into enlightenment. Unlearn…
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Pythons, Philosophy, going home...
Burmese pythons can find their way home even if they are taken dozens of kilometers away. It is the first demonstration that big snakes can navigate at all, and far exceeds the distances known to have been traveled by any other snake. (1) We all seek home. We all try to return home. The problem…
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The first time, memories, philosophy...
When the influential American conservationist Aldo Leopold canoed down the Colorado River delta to the Gulf of California in 1922, he was awestruck by endless wetlands teeming with wildlife. Leopold vowed to never return, fearing that the wilderness wouldn’t live up to his memories. He was right: After the U.S. government repeatedly dammed the river…
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Think! Decide! Think! Decid... STOP! [Harmonia]
Although choosing to do something because the perceived benefit outweighs the financial cost is something people do daily, little is known about what happens in the brain when a person makes these kinds of decisions. Studying how these cost-benefit decisions are made when choosing to consume alcohol, a researcher identified distinct profiles of brain activity…
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