Another pattern to trace, another sight to ponder.

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. . . you activate a Harvard student's dorsal mPFC

"But The Pharmacy of the Future suggests that the more we learn about ourselves, the less free we will be. A scientific understanding of man is a threat to our freedom because it undermines our capacity to govern our own lives by making decisions. If man is just a bag of chemicals, once we know what these chemicals are, we can re-mix them at will."

I fell asleep on the couch last night watching television. Sometime around 5 am this morning, I woke up, realized I wasn't in bed and staggered to my bedroom and my warm cozy bed. A few hours later when it was time to get up, I felt like I hadn't slept at all. That's what seems to happen if my sleep cycle is interrupted for any reason ( Read more... )

Please, don't tell anyone who works in marketing . . .

"Psychological research has established that American culture, which values the individual, emphasizes the independence of objects from their contexts, while East Asian societies emphasize the collective and the contextual interdependence of objects. Behavioral studies have shown that these cultural differences can influence memory and even ( Read more... )

I like the subject matter, author credentials, and also the additional methods of content control

Random article.

Edit: Cool - if a link appears in green, then the curator for the topic is up for vote.

Ever think about the choices you make? How about those things that influence those choices? We already know it's possible to influence the choices people make without them being fully aware of it, but what they are talking about here takes it to the next level. If you can identify biases in the decision-making process of individuals, you can use ( Read more... )

Differential equations in neuroscience? Oh . . .

During frightful events, our perception of time does not actually change, it just feels that way because the amygdala is creating more immediate memories of the event.

Still, the experience is one of time slowing down, which makes sense. Greater granularity of consciousness.

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