IEEE Spectrum: The Brain-Machine Interface, Unplugged
Rated • 0 reviews • neuroscience • ieee.org
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Evidence points to conscious metacognition in some...
Rated • 7 reviews • animals, psychology, neuroscience • physorg.com
(PhysOrg.com) -- J. David Smith, Ph.D., a comparative psychologist at the University at Buffalo who has conducted extensive studies in animal cognition, says there is growing evidence that animals share functional parallels with human conscious metacognition -- that is, they may share humans' ability to reflect upon, monitor or regulate their states of mind.
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& Neuroplasticity and the Brain That Changes Itself&& &...
Rated • 1 review • psychology, science, books, neuroscience • sharpbrains.com
A review of an interesting book about neuroscience. From the page: "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stores of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, is a compelling collection of tales about the amazing abilities of the brain to rewire, readjust and relearn after having a slice of itself rendered dysfunctional. The first seven chapters captivated me for their personal stories; the final four chapters for the science and philosophy."
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Integral Options Cafe: The Misshapen Mind: How the Brains...
Rated • 1 review • psychology, books, neuroscience • blogspot.com
Yes, the brain is a beautiful thing - but not because it's a feat of perfect engineering. It is, in fact, a rather ineffcient piece of machinery (I think I read somewhere the other day that the brain of an octopus or some such marine creature is way, way better engineered). From the page:
"The older parts of the brain, call them our reptilian legacy, had much longer to mature. As a result, in many situations, especially when quick responses are demanded, they simply overwhelm our rational side, stampeding us into actions that don't really stand up to serious analysis.
Thus, we see an act of violence in the media (whether it be a single person being kidnapped and murdered, as with the 1993 celebrated Polly Klaas case in California, or mass slaughter, as with September 11), and we respond with a potpourri of inchoate fear, panic, and rage. We feel that the certainties governing our lives have been shattered. Rarely do we successfully step back and analyze the likelihood or unlikelihood of such an event impacting us. "
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RobotCub - An Open Framework for Research in Embodied...
Rated • 1 review • robotics, science, neuroscience, technology • robotcub.org
"Welcome to the RobotCub website - home of the iCub. RobotCub is a 5 years long project funded by the European Commission through Unit E5 "Cognition". Our main goal is to study cognition through the implementation of a humanoid robot the size of a 2 year old child: the iCub. This is an open project in many different ways: it will distribute its platform openly, it will develop software open-source, and we are open to including new partners and form collaboration worldwide."
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Nerds might live longer - LiveScience- msnbc.com
Rated • 3 reviews • science, neuroscience • msn.com
"Brains are good for more than acing exams. Turns out, nerdy noggins also help primates like us live longer, anthropologists say.
Scientists have long pondered the reason for humans' and other primates' relatively hefty heads. Elephants boast the biggest brains by volume of all land animals, but relative to body size, humans hold the brain-size record.
"There's got to be a benefit to this big brain, because big brains are really expensive to grow and maintain, energetically expensive," said lead researcher Nancy Barrickman, a graduate student in Duke University's Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy."
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Hack your brain - Network World
Rated • 1 review • psychology, science, blogs, neuroscience, technology • networkworld.com
From the page: "Your mind: it's just another piece of hardware. Make sure you download the latest patch and upgrade to the newest operating system.
That, in so many words, is the fate of humankind described by David Pescovitz, co-editor of the BoingBoing.net blog and research director with the Institute for the Future. "
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The growth cone : Neurophilosophy
Rated • 6 reviews • neuroscience • scienceblogs.com
Why and how do neurons make connections? Why, through the growth cone, of course! Fascinating stuff.
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http://catcollecting.blogspot.com/2007/11/brain-structure...
Rated • 1 review • health, neuroscience, blogs • blogspot.com
From the page: "People who suffer from migraines have differences in the way their brains process sensory information, according to a study published in the current issue of Neurology."
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BRAINMETA.COM - NEUROSCIENCE, CONSCIOUSNESS, BRAIN, MIND,...
Rated • 21 reviews • psychology, neuroscience • brainmeta.com
"If anything, BrainMeta seeks to awaken people to the fact that the full potential of consciousness has not yet been realized, and that in order to begin realizing it, we must potentiate our consciousness, and ultimately, transcend our human consciousness. This may be brought about in many different ways, and while spiritual insight is important for awakening one to the latent potential of consciousness, the most important way for fully realizing this potential will be through the use of science as a tool, or more specifically, through the adequate understanding of brain mechanisms and the manipulation and enhancement of the human brain and its functioning, in order to make it more than human.
It is inevitable that in the near future, neuroscience will unleash a veritable revolution in consciousness and its study, that will result in a paradigm shift orders of magnitude larger than any in science preceding it.
BrainMeta seeks to help fulfull the potential that neuroscience offers us all, in part by providing information over the upcoming revolution in consciousness that will come from neuroscience, and additionally, by providing tools, information, and opportunities for facilitating and accelerating the further development of neuroscience."
