Results for “Brain & Language”

…man group that has been dehumanized in this particular way, there should be little to no activity in those areas of the brain associated with thinking, feeling, wanting, and believing. To explore this possibility, the social psychologist Susan Fiske placed subjects in a brain sca...

…, it all gets done...” William James, in The Principles of Psychology, tried to capture the subjective dynamics of the brain as an on-going preconscious stream of statistical wave processes. He envisioned autonomously increasing and decreasing coherence emerging spontaneously an...

…some are impatient, and some gain a greater hit of dopamine in anticipation of reward, thereby doping themselves on the brain’s pharmaceutical offerings. Some are born with a set of genes that diminish the capacity for self-control. These individuals start with lower levels of se...

…n between local and global memory items — what we have called the “keys and maps” pattern. 13.6.2 Glocal Memory in the Brain Science’s understanding of human brain dynamics is still very primitive, one manifestation of which is the fact that we really don’t understand how the b...

maladaptive consequences. Brain imaging studies show that different circuits turn on when we lie about long held personal stories as opposed to lies about in-the-moment situations. When we distort reality, either omitting information or twisting it to create a false belief, we ha...

researching brain signals and their usage in brain-machine interfaces.

but the left brain/right brain divide of his White House

174 9 General Intelligence in the Everyday Human World The Second Brain . The gastrointestinal neural net contains millions of neurons and is capable of operating inde- pendently of the brain. It modulates stress response and other aspects of emotion and motivation based on exp...

brain enzyme kinetics (Mandell, 1984) and single neuron firing patterns (Selz and Mandell, 1991) to human psychomotor and cognitive behavior (Selz, 1992; Selz and Mandell, 1993). The Leading 4(+) of Some Biologically Relevant Time Series An early application of a simplified for...

…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...

…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...