Results for “Brain Topolography”

… What kinds of things have intelligence, or goals, or purpose? Right now, we know one great example, and that’s us—our brains, our human intelligence. Human intelligence, I once assumed, is far beyond anything else that exists naturally in the world; it’s the result of an elabor...

…and the world around us by relating what we perceive to our own experiences. With respect to actions in particular, our brains have specialized circuitry to relate previously executed actions to newly perceived ones, possibly by performing an internal (imagined) simulation of the...

stinger into the brain that causes intense auto-grooming followed by three weeks of lethargy. During this down time, the cockroach turns into a living meal for the wasp’s larvae. *A Brazilian parasitoid wasp of the family Braconidae, lays its eggs inside a particular species of...

…milarly, humans are a quintessentially social species whose need for social connection produces invisible forces on our brain, behavior, and biology that are subject to scientific investigation. Among these are forces that compel us to seek trusting and meaningful connections wit...

…ems plausible that this kind of neural-symbolic system roughly emulates the kind of interaction that exists between the brain’s neural subsystems implementing localist symbolic processing, and the brain’s neural subsystems implementing globalist, classically “connection- ist” pro...

… objects or events. All of these capacities require a system that can integrate multiple sources of information. During brain scanning, individuals with autism show a striking reduction in activity in an area called the insula and its connection to both the somatosensory cortex a...

…al form. When our desire for fairness or equity combines with our competitive drive, envy often follows. Studies of the brain show how envy is generated from this combination. When healthy subjects sit in a brain scanner and learn about other individuals who have what they desir...

…r of the /eft obsessional or right hysteric hemispheric emotional styles. As examples, Flor-Henry said that a left half brain depression feels like hopeless and agitated indecision and the depression of the right brain is an experience of emptiness like homesickness. Left-brain h...

…this chapter is that our capacity for evil evolved as an incidental, but natural consequence of our uniquely engineered brain. Unlike any other species, our brain promiscuously combines and recombines thoughts and emotions to create a virtually limitless range of solutions to an...

…ery bit of progress on cognitive decline is in play for off-label use. Another frontier of the human use of humans is “brain organoids.” We can now accelerate developmental biology. Processes that normally take months can happen in four days in the lab using the right recipes of...

…mothers at 3-4 years. Human children are pretty much useless during the first 10-12 years, but during each phase, their brains have the opportunity to encounter many times as much training data as a gorilla brain. Humans are literally smarter on every level, and because the abili...

…to Know’ of Fraud. New York Times, February, 1-3; J. Creswell & L. Thomas, New York Times, 1/24/2009 * Stimulating the brain: Berridge, K. C. (2009). Wanting and liking: Observations from the Neuroscience and Psychology Laboratory. Jnquiry, 52(4), 378-398; Kringelbach, M., & Ber...

…ave become so intimidating to those of us in the early stages of exploring the use of these theories and methods in the brain sciences. Currently the “controls” are more relevant to abstract statistical processes and what can be said about them rather than generating and addressi...

…ri, E., Tashiro, M., & Fujii, T. (2010). Neural correlates of forgiveness for moral transgressions involving deception. Brain Res, 1332, 90-99; Karim, A. A., Schneider, M., Lotze, M., Veit, R., Sauseng, P., Braun, C., & Birbaumer, N. (2010). The truth about lying: inhibition of t...

Inferring Minds Where None Can Be Seen The social brain seeks connections with others. But what is the foundation that we use to build such connections? We experience empathy as a form of emotional resonance and understanding of other people. This connection allows us to comfort...