The Most Amazing Race: Reverse-Engineering the Brain | Think Tank | Big Think
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Stories about ‘Cognitive Science’
The Nature of Consciousness: How the Internet… – Lapidarium notes
It doesn’t matter so much that you’re made out of neurons and bones and muscles. Obviously, if we lose neurons in a stroke or in a degenerative disease like Alzheimer’s, we lose consciousness. But in principle, what matters for consciousness is the fact that you have these incredibly complicated little machines, these little switching …
Why We Keep Getting the Same Old Ideas | The Creativity Post
When you change your thinking patterns, your brain makes new connections which give you different things to focus on and different ways to interpret what you are focusing on.
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Neuroscientists successfully control the dreams of rats. Could humans be next?
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Researchers working at MIT have successfully manipulated the content of a rat’s dream by replaying an audio cue that was associated with the previous day’s events, namely running through a maze (what else).
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Your Brain Can Be Hacked
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Scientists have used commercial off-the-shelf technology to extract passwords and pin numbers from people’s thoughts…
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