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Mind & Brain :: Head Lines :: April 24, 2012 :: Email :: Print See Inside Unspoken cues communicate which type of "trust hormone" gene we have By Janelle Weaver A micrograph view of crystallized oxytocin.
Slight Genetic Variations Can Affect How Others See You
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By Sharon Weinberger MOSCOW -- The future of U.S. anti-terrorism technology could lie near the end of a Moscow subway line in a circular dungeon-like room with a single door and no windows. Here, at the Psychotechnology Research Institute, human subjects submit to experiments aimed at manipulating their subconscious minds.
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Notes on "The Semantics of the Information Elements"
This important book was published in July 2006 by three socionists in St. Petersburg — Larisa Kochubeeva, Vladimir Mironov, and Milena Stoyalova — at the conclusion of three years of research without any outside funding. Their task was to clarify which topics, themes, phrases, and words were associated with each of the eight information elements . Obviously, the concept of information elements is central to the field of socionics, and until this book, an understanding of these "facets of reality" was often taken for granted in works on socionics, despite minor discrepancies in descriptions of the information elements from different authors. In the beginning of the book the authors substantiate the relevance of speech patterns to psychic processes, citing Grigoriy Reinin's statement, "if it's not in one's awareness, it's not in one's speech."
How Emotions Jump from Face to Face
Mind & Brain :: Mind Matters :: February 7, 2012 :: :: Email :: Print A man's face can "grab" anger from someone standing nearby. But a woman's face tends to grab happiness. By Sarah Estes Graham and Jesse Graham If you stand next to this guy, people might think you are mad. Image: drbimages/iStock
Emotion In Music Mirrors Speech: Scientific American Podcast
More Science :: 60-Second Science :: March 21, 2012 :: :: Email :: Print Tonal relationships that express emotions in classical South Indian music are similar to ones used in Western music, and both mimic vocalizations. Cynthia Graber reports When you hear Western music, you generally get the emotional tone.Mind & Brain :: Head Lines :: January 23, 2012 :: :: Email :: Print See Inside A stutter indicates a massive change in brain wiring that affects more than just speech By Carrie Arnold Put on a pair of headphones and turn up the volume so that you can’t even hear yourself speak. For those who stutter, this is when the magic happens.
Stuttering Reflects Irregularities in Brain Setup
The Brain: A Body Fit for a Freaky-Big Brain | Mind & Brain
Aiello and Wheeler noted that this dramatic increase in brain size would seem to have required a dramatic increase in metabolism—the same way that adding an air-conditioning system to a house would increase the electricity bill. Yet humans burn the same number of calories, scaled to size, as other primates. Somehow, Aiello and Wheeler argued, our ancestors found a way to balance their energy budget.Podcast Transcription Meet Dr. Bechard Nor, pioneer transplant surgeon and one of the many achievers helping to unlock human potential at Cutter Foundation. Steve: Okay, how do you do this again?
The Mind's Hidden Switches: Scientific American Podcast
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have made a major discovery in how the brain encodes memories. The finding, published in the December 24 issue of the journal could eventually lead to the development of new drugs to aid memory. The team of scientists is the first to uncover a central process in encoding memories that occurs at the level of the synapse, where neurons connect with each other. "When we learn new things, when we store memories, there are a number of things that have to happen," said senior author Kenneth S. Kosik, co-director and Harriman Chair in Neuroscience Research, at UCSB's Neuroscience Research Institute. Kosik is a leading researcher in the area of Alzheimer's disease.
UCSB scientists discover how the brain encodes memories at a cellular level
The communicative brain
We have been working hard to redesign and rebuild our website to make it work better on mobile phones, tablets, desktops and much much more.Not all brain regions are created equal – instead, a "rich club" of 12 well-connected hubs orchestrates everything that goes on between your ears. This elite cabal could be what gives us consciousness, and might be involved in disorders such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. As part of an ongoing effort to map – the full network of connections in the brain – Martijn van den Heuvel of the University Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and Olaf Sporns of Indiana University Bloomington scanned the brains of 21 people as they rested for 30 minutes. The researchers used a technique called diffusion tensor imaging to track the movements of water through 82 separate areas of the brain and their interconnecting neurons. They found 12 areas of the brain had significantly more connections than all the others, both to other regions and among themselves.
The 'rich club' that rules your brain - life - 02 November 2011
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The brain is an amazing organ. It gives us conscious control over our actions and is the seat of our thoughts and experiences. There are millions of things in our environment that enter our world everyday, but only a few of them get past the steely discrimination of our perception. Take a minute to pause your reading and think about the feeling of your clothes against your skin. You weren’t quite consciously aware of this until I mentioned it, right?The Singularity is Far: A Neuroscientist's View
David J. Linden is the author of a new book, The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good . He is a professor of neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Chief Editor of the Journal of Neurophysiology.Psychologist James Pennebaker Image: Marsha Miller Are there hidden messages in your emails? Yes, and in everything you write or say, according to James Pennebaker, chair of the department of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.
The Secret Language Code
To navigate certain parts of New York City — namely Queens and much of Manhattan — all you need to be able to do is count. In Manhattan neighborhoods like the West Village, and most of Brooklyn, things get a good bit trickier. You can no longer depend on the logical numbered progression of streets and avenues, and must instead rely on some other picture inside your head. For a while now psychologists have debated just what that picture looks like.
How Our Brains Navigate the City - Commute
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