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to Christ. The brain waves recorded from electrodes deep in her brain demonstrated transient episodes of spiking in a midline limbic structure called the septum and in the right hippocampus, deep in the temporal lobe. Paul MacLean and others since have shown that electrical stimu...

deep reach. The hypothalamus plays a key role in enabling communication from brain to periphery. Located in the lower central region of the brain, the hypothalamus receives neural input on brain and body states (e.g., pain, sadness, fear, hunger) and in response signals brain reg...

…nces the thesis that the belief in pseudo-conspiracies proceeds from the "quirks and foibles" in the way that the human brain, or at least some human brains, process evidence. He lucidly reviews studies showing common defects in the brain's wiring, such as the bias that selects e...

…, Parnate and others of a then common family of antidepressant drugs. The presence of a DMT-generating enzyme in human brain was particularly exciting because we knew from the work of Harvard botanist, Richard Shultes and others, that DMT and the monoamine oxidase inhibitor, bet...

… of learning in these systems. 13.5.1 Hebbian Learning The most common and plausible assumption about learning in the brain is that synaptic connec- tions between neurons are adapted via some variant of Hebbian learning. The original Hebbian learning rule, proposed by Donald He...

… 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...

…matter how much we try to train them. The second set of mechanisms is in the motivational system. Motivation tells the brain what to pay attention to, by giving reward and punishment. If a brain does not get much reward for solving puzzles, the individual will find mathematics v...

…emble your own friends than to try to make them new at each stop. But somehow this led him to the idea of an artificial brain, which was Danny’s main idea when he arrived at MIT in the fall of 1972. The tinker-toy tic-tac-toe computer he built was a nod to this hope, but it’s jer...

5.3 An Architecture Diagram for Human-Like General Intelligence 103 concreteness, but of course the architecture is intended to be extended more broadly. In the hierarchy corresponding to an arm, for example, the lowest level would contain control patterns corresponding to indiv...

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Body Language & Banter 81 the fundamental thawing of relations between East and West, was to lead to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and the end of the Cold War. Face-to-Face Communication What really happened between these two leaders when they met and talked? Wa...

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…omplex). The eye movement gives the eponymous name, but a more important designation defines the two stages in terms of brain waves (electroencephalograph — EEG): REM is Fast-Wave Sleep (similar to the waking state) and NREM Sleep is Slow-Wave Sleep (very different from the wakin...