Results for “Brain Mapping Center”

…reated in adult animals/humans. The development of new neurons — neuronogenesis — is a vital part of maintaining normal brain and mental functioning. New neurons are being created, importantly, in the hippocampus (brain organ where new memories are encoded) — but, remarkably, the...

Role of Pleasure in the Brain, Robert G. Heath, Harper-Row, N.Y. 1964 Psychiatric Aspects of Neurological Disease, D. Frank Benson and Dietrich Blumer, Grune and Straton, N.Y. 1975. Mathematics —The Music of Reason, Jean Dieudonne, Springer-Verlag, N.Y. 1991 Mathematics for th...

When this happens, our promiscuous brain has worked its combinatorial magic, causing us to feel good when we witness someone else’s misfortune. Schadenfreude, like envy, causes us to self-evaluate, looking inside of ourselves to assess our net worth relative to others. We know f...

… of Arc. One evening in the human neurophysiology laboratory, | was invited by Dr. Heath to join him and several other brain scientists behind a two-way mirror to watch an interview with Donna while electrical current was being put through her recording electrodes. We watched an...

…as daunting as they are, pale by comparison to the Page |21 complexities facing the human species. Indeed, the social brain hypothesis posits that the social complexities and demands of primate species contributed to the rapid increase in neocortical (1.e., the outer layer of t...

…illustrate the existence and flow of attentional focus in OpenCog. On the other hand, in Hameroff’s recent model of the brain [Ham10], the brain’s moving bubble of attention is achieved through dendro-dendritic connections and the emergent dendritic web. Specific Objects Abstrac...

…insky argued that emotions are “ways to think” evolved to handle different “problem types” that exist in the world. The brain is posited to have rule-based mechanisms (selectors) that turns on emotions to deal with various problems. Overall, both of these works serve better as w...

common way for electrical circuits, computer programs, brain mechanisms and other complicated systems, even cultural or spiritual movements, to behave when one or more important control parameters crosses a threshold. Doyne Farmer of the Los Alamos’s Prediction Company once said...

…ture, and blood sugar, are largely hard-wired and organized at relatively low levels of the nervous system, such as the brainstem and spinal cord. An example comes from autonomic nervous system regulation of cardiovascular function. The sympathetic division of the autonomic nervo...

hyperbolic brain flow is made up of three decomposable

making us killophilic in a variety of situations. Our brain’s unique

we currently lack understanding of how the brain gives rise

wrapping the nerves and the neurons in our brain.

author most recently of The Tell-Tale Brain.

a network of brain areas that releases dopamine in most invertebrates and