Mya Proctor
Cynical, sardonic nerd.
Fifteen Writing Exercises. Writing exercises are a great way to increase your writing skills and generate new ideas.
They give you perspective and help you break free from old patterns and crutches. To grow as a writer, you need to sometimes write without the expectation of publication or worry about who will read your work. Don’t fear imperfection. That is what practice is for. Pick ten people you know and write a one-sentence description for each of them. Record five minutes of a talk radio show. Write a 500-word biography of your life. Write your obituary. Write a 300-word description of your bedroom. Write an interview with yourself, an acquaintance, a famous figure or a fictional character. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman – review.
A human being "is a dark and veiled thing; and whereas the hare has seven skins, the human being can shed seven times seventy skins and still not be able to say: This is really you, this is no longer outer shell.
" So said Nietzsche, and Freud agreed: we are ignorant of ourselves. The idea surged in the 20th century and became a commonplace, a "whole climate of opinion", in Auden's phrase. Alphabet Evolution.gif (GIF Image, 988x200 pixels) Words to Try to Use in Colloquial Speech Without Sounding Like a Pretentious Ass - Wordnik List. Social Science Resources: Sociology and Anthhropology. Cognitive Anthropology - Anthropological Theories - Department of Anthropology - The University of Alabama. The guides to anthropological theories and approaches listed below have been prepared by graduate students of the University of Alabama under the direction of Dr.
Michael D. Murphy. The Complete Guide to Not Giving a Fuck. How to Ditch Big Brother and Disappear Forever. » 9 Mindfulness Rituals to Make Your Day Better. “Smile, breathe and go slowly.” - Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Buddhist monk Post written by Leo Babauta.
Are you simply moving through your day, without fully living? I did this for many years. Famous Buddhist Quotes & Sayings. New Research Shows How the Brain Processes Language. By Janice Wood Associate News Editor Reviewed by John M.
Grohol, Psy.D. on November 26, 2011 A new study shows the importance of the white matter pathways in the brain in how we process language. Advances in brain imaging made within the last 10 years have revealed that highly complex cognitive tasks such as language processing rely not only on particular regions of the cerebral cortex, but also on the white matter fiber pathways that connect them. “With this new technology, scientists started to realize that in the language network, there are a lot more connecting pathways than we originally thought,” said Stephen Wilson, who recently joined the University of Arizona’s department of speech, language and hearing sciences as an assistant professor.
Music, Mind, and Meaning. This is a revised version of AI Memo No. 616, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
An earlier published version appeared in Music, Mind, and Brain: The Neuropsychology of Music (Manfred Clynes, ed.) Plenum, New York, 1981. Sexual orientation – wired that way. In a recent post, I presented the evidence that sexual preference is strongly influenced by genetic variation.
Here, I discuss the neurobiological evidence that shows that the brains of homosexual men and women are wired differently from those of their heterosexual counterparts. First, we must consider the differences between the brains of heterosexual males and females. These differences are extensive and arise mainly due to the influence of testosterone during a critical period of early development (see Wired for Sex). They include, not surprisingly, differences in the number of neurons in specific regions of the brain involved in reproductive or sexual behaviours as well as differences in the number of nerve fibres connecting these areas. A stranger in half your body. An amazing study has just been published online in Consciousness and Cognition about a patient with epilepsy who felt the left half of his body was being “invaded by a stranger” when he had a seizure. As a result, he felt he existed in one side of his body only. The research is from the same Swiss team who made headlines with their study that used virtual reality to make participants feel they were in someone else’s body, and one where brain stimulation triggered the sensation of having an offset ‘shadow body’ in patients undergoing neurosurgery.
The researchers suggest that having an integrated sense of our own bodies involves three types of perception: self-location – the area where we experience the self to be located; first-person perspective – the perceived centre of the conscious experience; and self-identification – the degree to which we identify sensations with our own bodies. Cognitive Atlas. The depression map: genes, culture, serotonin, and a side of pathogens. Maps can tell surprising stories.
Brain Tour. Neurostress: How Stress May Fuel Neurodegenerative Diseases. The Human Brain - Stress. Chronic over-secretion of stress hormones adversely affects brain function, especially memory.
Too much cortisol can prevent the brain from laying down a new memory, or from accessing already existing memories. The renowned brain researcher, Robert M. Sapolsky, has shown that sustained stress can damage the hippocampus , the part of the limbic brain which is central to learning and memory. History of Neuroscience. Brain and Behavior.