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5071_32 ~C4Chaos ~C4無秩序's Bookmarks Tagged With "neuroscience"

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  1. Visit High-Aptitude Minds: The Neurological Roots of Genius: Scientific American High-Aptitude Minds: The Neurological Roots of Genius: Scientific American

    Researchers are finding clues to the basis of brilliance in the brain

  2. Visit Neurophilosophy : The cognitive neuroscience of magic Neurophilosophy : The cognitive neuroscience of magic

    Although magicians are famously reluctant to divulge the secrets of their trade, the article, whose authors include neuroscientists Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, and magicians Teller and James Randi, includes quite a few explanations … More

  3. Visit Technology Review: The Brain Unmasked Technology Review: The Brain Unmasked

    New imaging technologies reveal the intricate architecture of the brain, creating a blueprint of its connectivity.

  4. Visit Brain Blogging, Thirty-Seventh Edition | Brain Blogger Brain Blogging, Thirty-Seventh Edition | Brain Blogger

    Welcome to the thirty-seventh edition of Brain Blogging. In this round, we try to uncover the neuropathology of Asperger’s syndrome, correlate sleep disturbances with chronic fatigue syndrome, link OCD to specific neuroanatomy, and discuss several… More

  5. Visit Meditation can alter brain structure - Times Online Meditation can alter brain structure - Times Online

    Ancient traditional therapies do not always stand up to close scientific scrutiny. But when Professor Sykes put meditation under the metaphorical microscope for the second series of Alternative Therapies: The Evidence, which she is presenting on B… More

  6. Visit Helen Fisher studies the brain in love | Video on TED.com Helen Fisher studies the brain in love | Video on TED.com

    Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love -- and people who had just been dumped.

  7. Visit The Mirror Neuron Revolution: Explaining What Makes Humans Social: Scientific American The Mirror Neuron Revolution: Explaining What Makes Humans Social: Scientific American

    Neuroscientist Marco Iacoboni discusses mirror neurons, autism and the potentially damaging effects of violent movies.

  8. Visit Scientists Identify the Brain's Activity Hub - NYTimes.com Scientists Identify the Brain's Activity Hub - NYTimes.com

    The outer layer of the brain, the reasoning, planning and self-aware region known as the cerebral cortex, has a central clearinghouse of activity below the crown of the head that is widely connected to more-specialized regions in a large network s… More

  9. Visit Op-Ed Contributor - How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com Op-Ed Contributor - How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

    FALSE beliefs are everywhere. Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found. Thus it seems slightly less egregious that, according to another poll, 10 percent of us think that Senator Barack Obama, a Chr… More

  10. Visit Neuropunditry in the pages of the Atlantic.  - By Daniel Engber - Slate Magazine Neuropunditry in the pages of the Atlantic.  - By Daniel Engber - Slate Magazine

    The neuropundits are back again, and this time they've scanned someone near and dear—esteemed Slate contributor and consumer advocate Jeffrey Goldberg. For a feature story in the Atlantic's new Ideas Issue, Goldberg proposed to find out whether he… More

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