Results for “BRAIN Initiative”

and the brain can repurpose the visual cortex to other

…heir hands.” Accompanying the television image of a couple of eggs sizzling in a frying pan, the phrase, “This is your brain on drugs” has always carried negative connotations, but apparently General McCaffrey has changed his mind about that. He now seems to believe that drugs c...

… variation? And if he was off, who or what do we blame? Could some quirky feature of Madoff’s genome, together with the brain states it orchestrates, have pushed him over the edge into a universe of unreasonable and even irrational desires? Does it matter that Madoff grew up in a...

…to fuse two differing contextual worlds may be transporting. Geometric visions can be used to do imageless algebra in a brain state that feels like intuition. The brain does something like this: Let the number of a sequence of unit squares, each side of measuring 0 to 1, be the d...

… a sense, vision and audition are redundant for understanding the everyday world. However, it may be important that the brain has evolved to account for both of these senses, because this forced it to account for the presence of two very rich and precise methods of sensing the wo...

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the area of the brain responsible for storing memory. This

as we've seen. There’s a rush in getting there: When brain

inflexible mapping between genes or brain circuits and a specific type of song. All songbirds have

constrained by what its bird brain and syrinx will

a specially structured brain subsystem which controls motor movements

a psychoanalytical neuroscientist with a computational bent, the partitions divided thoughtful, forewarning forebrain from automatic and stereotyped hind brain, the signal analyzing thalamocortical system from the emotional and impulsive brain stem-limbic, the symbolically logica...

…: that we make choices rationally, calculating the outcomes of competing alternatives. Tversky had found that the human brain didn’t always work that way. For choices with a fairly obvious outcome — 90 percent of cases, say — the assumption did hold. But at the margins, the brain...

our understanding of the architecture of the brain

the human-brain regime will end. Look around you—you’re witnessing the