Starting Spirals of Success - Integrated Listening. Just as beliefs affect behavior, your behavior likewise influences your feelings and thinking. When you take action consistent with your goals, confidence and fulfillment will follow. Take kindness: a simple act of kindness will release serotonin leading to calm, happy feelings in both the giver and the receiver (and even a witness!). But the action need not be lofty at all. Self-improvement steps like exercise will unleash positive feelings and state (as well as endorphins). Tackling practical goals too, even simple tasks like making the bed or doing the dishes, leads to satisfaction and accomplishment. Your physiological state or arousal level affects the probability of your next move. So a positive state tips the scale in favor of the upward spiral. Our client feedback suggests that one of the effects of the Total Focus sound and movement systems is an improvement in state.
Here are some of the successes iLs users have shared with us: “Her academic performance skyrocketed!” Vagus Nerve: What Happens Here Affects Everything. 7_AlineBodilySelf. Synesthesia. Synesthesia is a perceptual condition in which information between the senses is blended. Our laboratory is working to understand synesthesia from three angles. First, we have collected and rigorously verified over 20,000 synesthetes (Novich, Cheng, Eagleman, 2011). Second, we are performing high-throughput neuroimaging to understand the small differences in brain circuitry that cause synesthesia (Tomson et al, 2012, in preparation).
Finally, we are performing a family linkage analysis to pull the gene for synethesia (Tomson et al, 2011). To speed and standardize the study of synesthesia, we have developed a standardized battery for testing and quantifying the phenomenon at synesthete.org. This battery of questionnaires and online software is free and open to the public, and provides a rigorous, standardized scoring system. For a quick description of synesthesia, watch lab grad student Steffie Tomson explain--as seen on Nova ScienceNOW For some of our papers on synesthesia, see: Brain Bugs: Hallucinations, Forgotten Faces, and Other Cognitive Quirks | Think Tank. What's the Big Idea? If seeing is believing, then how do we come to know? One common misperception holds that vision springs directly from the eyes. True, the eyes, ears, and skin bombard us with a constant stream of information.
But sensory input is only the first step in a complex journey towards arriving at our understanding of the world. It's the brain that determines which details we pay attention to and why. As neuroscientist V.S. What's the Significance? For neurologists like Ramachandran, "the question of how neurons encode meaning and evoke all the semantic associations of an object is the holy grail of neuroscience, whether you are studying memory, perception, art, or consciousness. " This is because brain damage is highly specialized. John developed a blood clot in a vein in his leg, which traveled to his cerebral arteries, causing a stroke. There was nothing wrong with his vision or hearing. Dan Honan contributed to this article.
Image courtesy of Shutterstock. Neuroacoustics: The Healing Power of Sound. ALBUQUERQUE, NM—The experience of sound is at the very core of human consciousness, and it can be a powerful tool for healing, said Jeffrey Thompson, DC, at the annual meeting of the American Holistic Medical Association. For more than 20 years, Dr. Thompson has been exploring neuroacoustics and the therapeutic application of sound. His researches have led to the development of precise protocols for using sound to modulate brainwave patterns, affect sympathetic-parasympathetic balance, and synchronize the activity of the right and left brain hemispheres.
He has applied these methods in stress reduction, cardiovascular disease prevention, management of depression, and a host of other conditions. “It is akin to the picking of a lock on the neurophysiologic processes that the body already uses to heal itself,” said Dr. Thompson, director of the Center for Neuroacoustic Research, San Diego. His work with neuroacoustics is very different from other forms of music therapy. Physical Resonance. Synesthesia. How someone with synesthesia might perceive (not "see") certain letters and numbers. Synesthetes see characters just as others do (in whichever color actually displayed), yet simultaneously perceive colors as associated to each one.
Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia; from the Ancient Greek σύν syn, "together", and αἴσθησις aisthēsis, "sensation") is a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.[1][2][3][4] People who report such experiences are known as synesthetes. Difficulties have been recognized in adequately defining synesthesia:[5][6] many different phenomena have been included in the term synesthesia ("union of the senses"), and in many cases the terminology seems to be inaccurate.
A more accurate term may be ideasthesia. Characteristics[edit] There are two overall forms of synesthesia: projecting synesthesia and associative synesthesia.