Bullied children hide from stress in later life Jim Giles Victims are more likely to plot revenge than to confront problems. Bullying seems to have more severe...
Published online: 26 October 2004; | doi:10.1038/news041025-9 Electric currents boost brain power Jim Giles Just 20 minutes with a battery is enough to ramp up...
NEUROSCIENCE Music and the Brain What is the secret of music's strange power? Seeking an answer, scientists are piecing together a picture of what happens in...
Mark Peaty: "If we have data structures which represent currently relevant features of the environment, other data structures which represent 'self', and yet...
... "She believes that the cells fire off signals more easily after the current has gone by." But if they fire more easily, wouldn't it be likely then that...
... RKS: Yes, but single firings rarely result in anything too drastic. To pass a signal, a neuron usually has to 'spike' ie fire several times in quick ...
Robert, if I may add my sentiment to your precise opinion: the complexity of brainwork includes - as you said - "Yes, but single firings rarely result in...
Hi It resembles "posttetanic facilitation" though tetany is not the point here. ACorak ... http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041025//full/041025-9.html ... ...
RKS: Yes, but single firings rarely result in anything too drastic. To pass a signal, a neuron usually has to 'spike' ie fire several times in quick ...
RKS: Yes, but single firings rarely result in anything too drastic. To pass a signal, a neuron usually has to 'spike' ie fire several times in quick ...
Hi all, This 'introduction' leads into a piece on the major dichotomy that 'splits' the USA (and, for that matter, all other well differentiated collectives) ...
Andy: "After a certain limit, this simulation has to stop at the point where technology will not put in self actualized free will. " I am not sure I...
What does pain signify? A hypothesis concerning pain, the immune system and unconscious pain experience under general anesthesia. Neuman Y. Ben-Gurion...
DanielR: "Could the possibility of reaching a paradoxical conclusion by a thinker be the basis of a CTMU-epistemological theory of truth and falsehood? If...
The emergence of consciousness. Sieb RA. Department of Neuroscience, University of Alberta, 11624-135 St., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5M 1K8. Med Hypotheses....
Is consciousness a gradual phenomenon? Sergent C, Dehaene S. Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale Unite 562, Service Hospitalier Frederic...
An information integration theory of consciousness. Tononi G. BMC Neurosci. 2004 Nov 2;5(1):42 BACKGROUND: Consciousness poses two main problems. The first is ...
My apologies for this tardy response. The as yet unfinished renovation of our kitchen, by command of she who must be obeyed, entails much disruption, trauma,...
Interesting point. When I awaken in the morning I am conscious but "groggy" (which probably does not translate well into Danish). At first I am not oriented as...
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RKS quote: "12-legged machine in which each leg was controlled by a chaotic mathematical function." Since I cannot subscribe to every journal :-) , can someone...
TZR: "Is consciousness a gradual phenomenon?" Our 'bps' model bargains tentatively on that interpretation. Of course, because of 'flicker fusion frequency' as...
TZR quote: "our conclusion should be that the intersubjective aspect of pain precedes the "subjective," first-person experience of pain." I have a pinched...
TZR quote: "Consciousness always accompanies the production of such action (conscious action). " Some levels of primary consciousness (that may even be...
*The role of rehearsal and generation in false memory creation* Elizabeth J. Marsh and Gordon H. Bower ^ Memory Issue: Volume 12, Number 6 / November 2004...
*A new look at the relationship between perceptual and motor responses * Florian Waszak and Andrei Gorea^ Visual Cognition Issue: Volume 11, Number 8 /...
*Changing scenes: Memory for naturalistic events following change blindness * Timo Mäntylä and Anna Sundström^ Memory Issue: Volume 12, Number 6 /...
TZR quote: "...anxiety is linked to a memory-based attentional bias, in which attention to threat is thought to depend on implicit learning." Implicit learning...