Results for “Brain Topolography”

…alas, the perils of running a new center, that I no longer control my schedule like in the good old days. But the Obama BRAIN Initiative is running strong, and MIT has a good bid for a seat at the table, so that is good. Want to revisit a time for a chat? My schedule is now much...

…and sparked the growing DNA ancestry industry. He was instrumental in laying the groundwork for President Obama’s 2013 BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative—in aid of improving the brains of human beings to the point where, for much of...

…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...

… that are driven by two or more independent frequencies (called quasiperiodic driving). We found them to be relevant to brain stem, thalamocortical neurophysiology of perceptual processes and states of consciousness. They have the properties, A=0, Do and D; # integer and a char...

From Selfish Genes to Social Brains The Chicago Social Brain Network was established to examine how science might inform us about our fundamental human nature, including the apparently irrepressible quest for connection with a higher understanding and organization. Science can d...

…e process. This flip between adaptive and maladaptive that we see within the dopaminergic system is, by now, a familiar brain routine. It provides, I believe, the means to explain all manners of excess, from the desire for food and money to drugs and violence. Obesity and drug a...

… is that it’s immediately executable; it’s not like writing. When you write something, somebody has to read it, and the brain that’s reading it has to absorb the thoughts that came from the person who did the writing. Look at how knowledge has been transmitted in the history of t...

…e decades, however, will probably be time enough for the raw information-processing power of computers to match that of brains—at least by the crude measures of number of bits and number of bit-flips per second. Human brains are intricately constructed, the process of millions o...

…to us that the creation o a successful emergentist AGI will have to wait for either a detailed understanding of how the brain gives rise to abstract thought, or a much more thorough mathematical understanding o the dynamics of complex self-organizing systems. The concept of cogn...

…se attributed to social factors without any evidence, and they had faster motor development! I suspect this means their brains are slower at learning high-level concepts, because the low- level structures are optimized for a shorter time. But they will keep the lead in motor deve...

Brain Physics and the Respiritualization of Healing. Arnold J. Mandell, Bulletin of the National Guild of Catholic Psychiatrists. 28:19-24, 1983. Toward a Psychobiology of Transcendence, God in the Brain. Arnold J. Mandell, |In Psychobiology of Consciousness (eds. J.M. Davidson...

…me Series from Biological Dynamics Publications involving the applications of various D measures, particularly Dz, to brain-relevant times series number in the hundreds and are growing exponentially. The following constitutes a brief review of a representative set of empirical...

23 Article 6. Scientific American How the Brain Understands Food and Appetite [Excerpt] David Linden Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from a chapter in the book Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Le...

…hadenfreude appears to emerge strongly when an individual’s misfortune is deserved. To explore what is happening in the brain when such pleasure is experienced, and the situations that might trigger it, the German cognitive neuroscientist Tania Singer set up a study involving hea...

…ial Psychology, 45(4), 635-646; Dvash, J, Gilam, G, Ben-Ze'ev, A, Hendler, T, & Shamay-Tsoory, S.G. (2010). The envious brain: The neural basis of social comparison. Human Brain Mapping. 31(11): 1741-1750; Fehr, E., Bernhard, H., & Rockenbach, B. (2008). Egalitarianism in young c...