On wired.com, there are a few short but really interesting articles.

Musicians discern speech sounds presented with noise better than nonmusicians because musicians have trained their brains to pick out certain musical sounds in the presence of others, which probably bleeds into speech sound discrimination.

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Fascinating article!Languages and words convey concepts, subtle shades of meaning and inference that go way farther than the bare letters you see on a page. On top of meaning, you have sounds of words, syntax in sentences, tense, and real-life application of words in context. Man ( Read more... )

Cognitively and intuitively, the role of numbers and counting in culture and language. Fascinating.

When you do hallucinogenic drugs, you see these kind of images. Why?


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This site has tons of pics of the human anatomy. Some are handmade lithographs from years ago, some are modern. It's fascinating. You can even search the region and the view it's in, even the sex of the subject. I typed in "larynx" and a bunch of results popped up.


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Action potential, only ions and +/- charges.

Ions in great detail, mentions of neurotransmitters, epilepsy and action potentials, myelin. Animals with poison that attacks the neuronal network.

Action potiential, ions, and calcium ions and neurotransmitters, and the continuation of the impulse to the post synaptic nerve. As explained by dancing ( Read more... )