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The team at Gallant Lab at UC Berkley has been looking at how the brain processes and maps words/subject/objects. (Their recently published paper in Neuron) The result is a fascinating look into the workings of the brain and yet more evidence that we have only barely begun to uncover the mysteries of the mind at work. 
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My BBC Future column from a few days ago. The original is here. I’m donating the fee from this article to Wikipedia. Read the column and it should be obvious why. Perhaps you should too: dona...
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Our minds are made up just as much by the people and tools around us as they are by the brain cells inside our skull.
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With teen obesity at its highest it has ever been, and the continuous pressure of attaining super model thin bodies, research suggest teens who identify themselves as being fat when they are not can lead to obesity later in life.
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We all feel we are wonderfully unified, coherent mental machines and that our underlying brain structure must reflect this overpowering sense. It doesn’t.... Via Rexi44, Jafri Malin Abdullah
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Brain, bodily awareness, and the emergence of a conscious self: these entities and their relations are explored by Germanphilosopher and cognitive scientist Metzinger. Extensively working with neuroscientists he has come to the conclusion that, in fact, there is no such thing as a "self" -- that a "self" is simply the content of a model created by our brain - part of a virtual reality we create for ourselves.
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Virginia Woolf, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe—teetering on the thin line between madness and genius, they contributed to the world some of the greatest works of literature at the cost of their own mental vitality. Even they suspected a link between the moments of crystal clear lucidity amongst their disordered emotions. Is science finally gaining ground on this dark connection?
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Picture this: You put on a headset and relax your mind. Soon you begin controlling an object with your thoughts. Several companies are now bringing this technology to life with affordable headsets that determine a person's state of mind. MIND CONTROL: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?q=mind+control
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Allowing the mind to wander aids creativity. CREATIVITY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=creativity
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Pribram’s holographic theory is a belief that each piece of an object contains the pattern for the entire object. Pribram showed that portions of the brain work in the same fashion. He found, for instance, the vision in rats seems to be processed holographically. With more than 90 percent of their optic nerves severed, rats can still see. More on HOLOGRAM: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=hologram
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New evidence suggests drugs like LSD open the doors of perception by inhibiting parts of the brain
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Known as neuroplasticity, findings show you have an innate ability to restructure the gray matter of your brain, literally speaking, with your mind and conscious action. When you change what you think, say or do in response to an event or situation, you change inner emotional states. NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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Theoretical physicist, Leonard Mlodinow appeared on the Dylan Ratigan show today to discuss his new book Subliminal: how your unconscious mind rules your behavior.
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We humans are a hopeful bunch — so hopeful, in fact, that our views of the future are often irrationally positive. But at what point does unflagging optimism become detrimental to our progress and success? Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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What happens when you turn convention on its head and look a the world from a totally different perspective? It's an exercise in opening the mind by turning expectations upside down.
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As David Hume once wrote: "All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing [our]...experience."
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Brain scans of karate experts show that there are subtle differences in certain areas of brain that probably enables them to punch harder from a very close range.
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No one can remember everything, and the Web can be a great mind-expanding device.
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Scientists have developed a robot that can be controlled through mind scans. They hope that the robot could be used to create avatars for people with locked-in syndrome or other conditions that do not allow for movement of the body. More on ROBOTICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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Having created a mobile app to conduct an experiment, scientists recently found that our minds wander about 47% of the time (the notable exception being love-making, when our ability to concentrate is very strong). While that may make us sound lazy and unproductive, neurologists say that daydreaming actually increases our ability to solve problems by thinking more creatively. More on DAYDREAMING: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=daydreaming
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Sara Mednick, a psychologist at UC San Diego, talks about how napping improves mind and memory...
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The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to understand the science behind what makes people violent, and then find ways to hijack their minds by implanting false, but believable stories in their brains, with hopes of evoking peaceful thoughts: We’re friends, not enemies. DARPA: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?q=DARPA Via Don L. Price
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A sense of tranquility can go a long way for cancer patients. Calming techniques like yoga and meditation can improve quality of life and treatment response for cancer patients.
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Myths have developed around and researchers have studied how the human brain juggles creativity and organization. Popular theory tells us that the left brain is structured and logical, while the right brain is artistic and imaginative, and that all human beings use predominantly one side of the other. More on CREATIVITY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=creativity
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THE problem of the self - what it is that makes you you - has exercised philosophers and theologians for millennia. Today it is also a hotly contested scientific question, and the science is confirming what the Buddha, Scottish philosopher David Hume and many other thinkers maintained: that there is no concrete identity at the core of our being, and that our sense of self is an illusion spun from narratives we construct about our lives. NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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Acclaimed author and illustrator Matthew Johnstone reveals how simple daily practices can help us be more present, more positive, have better health and greater clarity.
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'The viewer doesn’t see the world; he is part of a world process.'... Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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