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Monthly Archives: October 2014
Happy Halloween
“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself. ” ― Martin … Continue reading
Conscious Experience Integrated in the Claustrum?
Recent experiments involving electrical stimulation suggest that there exists a brain center in humans, called the claustrum, that integrates our experience of the world. We already know that consciousness is not an ethereal concept, but a brain function that can be … Continue reading
We Are All Mad
“When we remember we are all mad the mysteries disappears and the world stands explained” – Mark Twain
The Walking Dead Sydrome
Since Halloween is coming up soon, its interesting to know that there are people walking around believing that they are actually dead. The Cotard delusion, or the walking corpse syndrome, is a rare mental illness that causes a person to believe … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness, Face perception, Neuroscience, Perception
Tagged Brain, cognitive neuroscience research, cognitive illusions, Consciousness, cotard delusion, face perception, faces, Fusiform Gyrus, Neuroscience, Perception, psychological phenomenon, psychology, science, the walking corpse syndrome
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Heuristics
“Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s unpredictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.” – Steve McConnell Heuristic (from Greek “Εὑρίσκω”, “find” or “discover”) refers to experience-based techniques for problem solving, learning, and discovery that find a solution … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons, Humor, Judgement and Decision making, Perception
Tagged Cartoon, Heuristics, Perception, psychological phenomenon, psychology, statistics
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Photographer Uses Neuroscience To Redefined The Meaning Of Beauty
This fascinating photographic project, titled the ‘Original Ideal’, is an impressive blend of neuroscience and photography and attempts to explore and reveal the deepest part of our personality – how we perceive ourselves. All subjects were placed in a minimal studio setting where … Continue reading
Nobel Prize Recipients from Norway in Physiology or Medicine
Congratulations to this year´s Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine and cognitive neuroscientists May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser from Norway together with John O´Keefe from UK, which have discovered an inner positioning system … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons, Neuroscience, Psychology, Science
Tagged Brain, Cartoon, cognitive neuroscience research, Neuroscience, psychology, science
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Go Right
Outlier in Norwegian can be translated as ‘homeless, jobless and most probably drunk’; “uteligger”. And you never want to be three standard deviations below the mean in a normal distribution when it comes to home, job and alcohol.
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