Brain region for adventurousness reported found June 25, 2008 Courtesy Wellcome Trust and World Science staff Scientists have identified a brain region that...
How Does Language Exist In The Brain? ScienceDaily (June 30, 2008) - The "La Mente BilingĂ¼e" research team that doctor Itziar Laka leads in the Faculty of...
**************************ANNOUNCEMENT********************** Brain Impact Factor Increases by 12% In the recently released 2007 ISI Science Citation Index,...
After visiting Michael Cecil's web site ... viewing the painting he provides a link to, 'The Creation of Adam', by Michelangelo, I feel mysteriously compelled...
Podcast extra: Steven Pinker interview Experimental psychologist and author Steven Pinker talks to Kerri Smith about courtesy, concepts, cursing - and why we...
Neuronal correlates of the set-size effect in monkey lateral intraparietal area It is well known that the brain is limited in the amount of sensory information...
'Mind's eye' influences visual perception A graphic depiction of the sequence of events in the experiment from top left to bottom right. First, a person looks...
Spiritual effects of hallucinogens persist, researchers report In a follow-up to research showing that psilocybin, a substance contained in "sacred mushrooms,"...
New map IDs the core of the human brain The first complete high-resolution map of the human cerebral cortex identifies a single network core that could be key...
Volume 362, Number 1481 / May 29, 2007 Discussion Meeting Issue 'Mental processes in the human brain' organized and edited by Jon Driver, Tim Shallice and...
... <snip> ... ...which implies an attempt to impose symmetric thinking on a realm that is necessarily asymmetric. Not good. Understandable, but not good. The...
... L.M. Nice to see that you only picked one point to argue. I was only referring to intentionally initiated action, not to the general case -- such as...
Brain's neuronal nexus mapped Posted by Alla Katsnelson [Entry posted at 1st July 2008 03:12 PM GMT] A structural brain map -- the most detailed to date --...
Experimental philosophy movement explores real-life dilemmas Imagine a business executive who thinks: "I know that this new policy will harm the environment,...
Robert, your comment at the end seemed to imply that you did not understand the abstract. What about it did you not understand? Do think methodologies for...
Intuition Can Be Explained ScienceDaily (July 2, 2008) - Intuition, or tacit knowledge, is difficult to measure, so it is often denigrated. A new dissertation...
RKS: "*Comment: *I just felt I should post this news..." MP: Hmmm, I think you made the right decision there. Though, truth to tell, I feel ... far more...
Thanks Robert. The intuition item doesn't seem that special, but the underlying principle is. It's that a great deal of "tacit, hands-on" knowledge/thinking is...
... OP writes: Yet, 'power of will' implies power, energy. Where would this will power come from if not from energy? ... OP writes: Yet, 'movement toward...
Counting monkeys tick off yet another 'human' ability a.. 11:03 01 July 2008 b.. NewScientist.com news service c.. Ewen Callaway Counting monkeys tick off yet...
Scientists set out to measure how we perceive naturalness Natural products are highly valued by consumers yet their properties have been difficult to reproduce...
Woman aquires new accent after stroke A woman in southern Ontario is one of the first cases in Canada of a rare neurological syndrome in which a person starts...
... principle is. It's that a great deal of "tacit, hands-on" knowledge/thinking is simply "body thinking". All our physical activities - sex, sports, running,...
... From: Mark Peaty <mpeaty@...> Subject: Re: [Mind and Brain] News: Intuition Can Be Explained To: MindBrain@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, July 3,...
Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response Jeffery A. Dusek1,2,3,6, Hasan H. Otu3,4, Ann L. Wohlhueter1, Manoj Bhasin3,4, Luiz F....
Get Smart About What You Eat And You Might Actually Improve Your Intelligence ScienceDaily (July 3, 2008) - New research findings published online in The FASEB...
... <snip> ... BEB replies: psilocybin (like other hallucinogens such as mescaline and LSD) is an *entheon* -- which is from the Greek meaning "God within." ...
Oops, I should've said *entheogens* in mine of earlier today (not entheons), when speaking of psilocybin, mescaline, and LSD -- the 'theo' obviously referring...
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