Neurophilosophy
You're new here, aren't you?
NetworkedBlogs allows you to stay up to date with blogs you love. Click the Follow button to follow updates from this blog.
NetworkedBlogs allows you to stay up to date with blogs you love. Click the Follow button to follow updates from this blog.
Information
| Blog Name: | Neurophilosophy |
| Url: | http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/ |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | neuroscience, science, psychology |
| Description: | Neurophilosophy is a weblog about molecules, minds and everything in between, written by a postgraduate student of neuroscience. |
| Popularity: | 212 Followers |
Blog Feed
The cutaneous rabbit illusion hops out of the body
| IF a rapid series of taps are applied first to your wrist and then to your elbow, you will experience a perceptual illusion, in which phantom sensations are felt along the skin connecting the two p... |
Human grid cells tile the environment
| HOW does the brain encode the spatial representations which enable us to successfully navigate our environment? Four decades of research has identified four cell types in the brains of mice and rat... |
Is time dilated during a threatening situation?
| "WHEN a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour," said Albert Einstein, "it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour." Einstein was describing... |
Single cells in the monkey brain encode abstract mathematical concepts
| OUR ability to use and manipulate numbers is integral to everyday life - we use them to label, rank, count and measure almost everything we encounter. It was long thought that numerical competence ... |
Viewing headless bodies causes face adaptation
| VIEWING a stimulus for a prolonged period of time results in a bias in the perception of a stimulus viewed afterwards. For example, after looking at a moving stimulus for some time, a stationary st... |
Desire influences visual perception
| WE tend to assume that we see our surroundings as they really are, and that our perception of reality is accurate. In fact, what we perceive is merely a neural representation of the world, the brai... |
Feeling the pain of others
| HOW do you react when you see somebody else in pain? Most of us can empathize with someone who is sick or has been injuered - we can quite easily put ourselves "in their shoes" and understand, to s... |
Glimpsing memory traces in real time
| MEMORY is one of the biggest enduring mysteries of modern neuroscience, and has perhaps been researchered more intensively than any other aspect of brain function. The past few decades have yielded... |
Project H.M., Phase I
| In February of this year, Jacopo Annese (above), a neuroanatomist and radiologist at the University of California, San Diego travelled to Boston to take delivery of a brain. For Annese, collecting ... |
The cognitive benefits of time-space synaesthesia
| SYNAESTHESIA is a neurological condition in which there is a merging of the senses, so that activity in one sensory modality elicits sensations in another. Although first described by Francis Galto... |
Visit the
blog page on Facebook.
Questions? Visit the support forum
or contact: networkedblogs [at] ninua.com
Copyright (C) 2008, Ninua, Inc.
Terms of Service |
Privacy Policy