http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fe20040122rh.htm Out of thought, out of mind: New research suggests that there is a biological basis for one...
Has anyone read this book yet, Consciousness in Four Dimensions? My God, it's breathtaking, to me anyway. It speaks of three levels of relativity, or how one...
How social perception can automatically influence behavior Melissa J. Ferguson and John A. Bargh Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2004, 8:33-39 Do we always know...
RKS quote: "complex behaviors can also be automatically initiated and guided." Of course, always trying to guarantee bps survival imperative (excuse my 'lei...
Visual cues shape brain function by Helen Dell 19 January 2004 16:00 GMT Blind people not only have heightened sensitivities in their remaining senses, but the...
Reverse ventriloquism We can be tricked into trusting our ears over our eyes. 03 February 2004 LAURA NELSON Ventriloquists should be jealous. Scientists have...
Phantoms buzzing in the brain 3 February 2004 15:00 GMT by Helen Dell Damage to nerves of the auditory system can lead to hearing loss, but the same damage...
How social perception can automatically influence behavior Melissa J. Ferguson1 and John A. Bargh2 1Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY...
The Addicted Brain Drug abuse produces long-term changes in the reward circuitry of the brain. Knowledge of the cellular and molecular details of these...
The Brain's Word Act: Reading verbs revs up motor cortex areas Bruce Bower For more than 60 years, scientists have known that a strip of neural tissue that...
'Mindsight' could explain sixth sense 19:00 04 February 04 Some people may be aware that a scene they are looking at has changed without being able to identify...
People lie more on the phone than by email 17:18 12 February 04 Communications technologies are far from equal when it comes to conveying the truth. The first...
Does the huamn mnid raed wrods as a wlohe? Jonathan Grainger and Carol Whitney Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2004, 8:58-59 A recent email message about a...
What is altruism? Benjamin Kerr, Peter Godfrey-Smith and Marcus W. Feldman Trends in Ecology and Evolution 10.1016/S0169-5347(03)00318-5 Altruism is generally...
I don't think so. What I rather think is a 'mindwork' FTL (faster than light) in the background, an able scrambler and imager of everything including ...
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The Body Sleeps, but the Genes Do Not Everyone does it, but no one knows why; a sleep-gene survey may offer clues By Jack Lucentini In a study that could offer...
When It's More Than an Urge For the compulsive, the phrase By Leslie Pray Would popping daily citaloprams, I wonder, have restrained Jackie Kennedy's...
Robert, an interesting report. Let us take a look at some other aspects of shopaholix in brief. First: the gullible, who falls for the lure of ads whetting the...
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Whatever the reports say, the underlying intent of advertising is to create "name recognition". It cannot tempt anyone to go out and purchase something cold...
All aboard the nanotube 12 February 2004 17:00 GMT by Helen Dell A complex network of 'nanotubular highways' can transport organelles between cells, report...
Brain fingerprints under scrutiny By Becky McCall in Seattle A controversial technique for identifying a criminal mind using involuntary brainwaves that could...
Curious mice need room to run Lab mice like a little extra space and a cage with a few frills. 11 February 2004 LAURA NELSON Laboratory mice may need to...
Our sixth sense is running all the time, but we easily access it in dreaming. If you use the word hardware for brain as an analogy, then that explains that the...
I was born deaf and believe that the cause was some damage done to the hair cells of the cochlea. So, I wear amplification and have been wearing such since age...
What's a cerebellar circuit doing in the auditory system? Donata Oertel and Eric D. Young Trends in Neurosciences 2004, 27:104-110 The shapes of the head and...
NEUROSCIENCE: Imaging Studies Show How Brain Thinks About Pain (p. 1121) ... Holden When we empathize with another person's pain, we use many of the same brain...