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Where'd I put my magnetic pulse generator?
"Prof Snyder has been able to artificially induce savant skills in people who do not have autism using the inhibiting influence of low frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to turn off that part of the brain which controls all our inbuilt expectations. " brain, intelligence, scienceOops.
Look, I'm sorry. It got lost, ok. No big deal. I'll send you another one, and this time I'll be sure to use Fed Ex. They've got some tracking number thing so this doesn't happen.http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8S5RBE02&show_article=1&Religion and the brain
The doughnut-shaped machine swallows the nun, who is outfitted in a plain T-shirt and loose hospital pants rather than her usual brown habit and long veil. She wears earplugs and rests her head on foam cushions to dampen the device’s roar, as loud as a jet engine. Supercooled giant magnets generate intense fields around the nun’s head in a high- ( Read more... )Finding mind in matter
"In a recent article in the Archives of Neurology, a team of British and Belgian neuroscientists describe a clinically unconscious accident victim who can, on command, imagine herself playing tennis and walking around her house. By showing that her functional brain imaging studies (fMRI) are indistinguishable from those of healthy volunteers ( Read more... )Everything is miscellaneous
"Weinberger's thesis is this: historically, we've divided the world into categories, topics, and hierarchies because physical objects need to be in one place or another, they can't be in all the places they might belong. Computers and the Internet turn this on its head: because a computer can "put things" in as many categories as they need to be in ( Read more... )