BrainVISA/Anatomist Home Page Adam Groffman's Design Portfolio Brain Structures and Their Functions The nervous system is your body's decision and communication center. The central nervous system (CNS) is made of the brain and the spinal cord and the peripheral nervous system (PNS) is made of nerves. Together they control every part of your daily life, from breathing and blinking to helping you memorize facts for a test. The brain is made of three main parts: the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain. The Cerebrum: The cerebrum or cortex is the largest part of the human brain, associated with higher brain function such as thought and action. What do each of these lobes do? Frontal Lobe- associated with reasoning, planning, parts of speech, movement, emotions, and problem solving Parietal Lobe- associated with movement, orientation, recognition, perception of stimuli Occipital Lobe- associated with visual processing Temporal Lobe- associated with perception and recognition of auditory stimuli, memory, and speech Note that the cerebral cortex is highly wrinkled.
mission / History of 800 Aurora Street 14 Pews is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to serving the cultural needs of our community by providing a forum to experience, discuss and celebrate the performing and media arts and to foster cross-cultural experiences. We are located in East Sunset Heights, close to Independence Heights and feel it's important that more members of marginalized and underserved communities become active, empowered participants in the celebration and discussion of all the arts. We encourage dialogues after each cultural event because we want to hear from all the voices of Houston, which we are proud to say is the most ethnically diverse city in all of America. Since moving into 800 Aurora Street, near the intersection of North Main Street and Aurora Street, we have: We are proud to have met and surpassed our goals for our first two years as a non-profit and look forward to serving our community for many more years to come. In August 2010, the venue is named 14 Pews.
Sensory substitution Sensory substitution means to transform the characteristics of one sensory modality into stimuli of another sensory modality. It is hoped that sensory substitution systems can help handicapped people by restoring their ability to perceive a certain defective sensory modality by using sensory information from a functioning sensory modality. A sensory substitution system consists of three parts: a sensor, a coupling system, and a stimulator. History[edit] The idea of sensory substitution was introduced in the '60s by Paul Bach-y-Rita as a means of using one sensory modality, mainly taction, to gain environmental information to be used by another sensory modality, mainly vision.[1][2] The first sensory substitution system was developed by Bach-y-Rita et al. as a means of brain plasticity in congenitally blind individuals.[3] After this historic invention, sensory substitution has been the basis of many studies investigating perceptive and cognitive neuroscience. Technological support[edit]
In Brain, Competing Thoughts Come in Waves and Rhythms Generation Next Blog ← Grown-up fun or girls behaving badly? • Meltdown or tantrum-what’s the difference? → Despite significant advances in brain imaging and cognitive science, neuroscientists continue to search for how the brain develops and retains perceptions and memories. Emerging evidence suggests that a group of neurons can represent each unique piece of information, but no one knows just what these ensembles look like, or how they form. In a new study, researchers at MIT and Boston University gained insight into how neural ensembles form thoughts and support the flexibility to change one’s mind. Researchers identified groups of neurons that encode specific behavioral rules by oscillating in synchrony with each other. “As we talk, thoughts float in and out of our heads. via In Brain, Competing Thoughts Come in Waves and Rhythms | Psych Central News. If you're new here, you can find out more about Generation Next events here.
Mind Tools Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways To Learn Faster, Deeper, & Better If someone granted you one wish, what do you imagine you would want out of life that you haven’t gotten yet? For many people, it would be self-improvement and knowledge. Newcounter knowledge is the backbone of society’s progress. Great thinkers such as Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and others’ quests for knowledge have led society to many of the marvels we enjoy today. Your quest for knowledge doesn’t have to be as Earth-changing as Einstein’s, but it can be an important part of your life, leading to a new job, better pay, a new hobby, or simply knowledge for knowledge’s sake — whatever is important to you as an end goal. Life-changing knowledge does typically require advanced learning techniques. Health Shake a leg. Balance Sleep on it. Perspective and Focus Change your focus, part 2. Recall Techniques Listen to music. Visual Aids Every picture tells a story. Verbal and Auditory Techniques Stimulate ideas. Kinesthetic Techniques Write, don’t type.
untitled Jon Juaristi: El bucle melancólico. Historias de nacionalistas vascos(por Luis Fernández- Castañeda Belda) Agustín García Calvo: Contra el hombre (con dos epílogos de Isabel Escudero) (por Julián Jesús Martínez López) julian.martinez1@roble.pntic.mec.es Jon Juaristi : EL BUCLE MELANCOLICO. Historias de nacionalistas vascos. Quien desee conocer la historia del nacionalismo vasco desde dentro, tiene en este libro un testimonio de primera magnitud. Con ello, es evidente que el autor ha tocado un tema tabú, algo que nunca se discute en las tertulias radiofónicas o en los debates de televisión, y apenas en la prensa. Luis Fernández-Castañeda Belda. -García Calvo, Agustín: Contra el hombre (con dos epílogos de Isabel Escudero). Editado por la Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo. Obra publicada por la fundación de estudios sobre el anarquismo"Anselmo Lorenzo". Las charlas de Agustín G. El libro termina con dos estudios ,a modo de epílogo, de Isabel Escudero. Julián Jesús Martínez López
Integral theory Integral theory, a philosophy with origins in the work of Sri Aurobindo and Jean Gebser, and promoted by Ken Wilber, seeks a synthesis of the best of pre-modern, modern, and postmodern reality.[1] It is portrayed as a "theory of everything,"[2] and offers an approach "to draw together an already existing number of separate paradigms into an interrelated network of approaches that are mutually enriching."[1] It has been applied by scholar-practitioners in 35 distinct academic and professional domains as varied as organizational management and art.[1] Methodologies[edit] AQAL, pronounced "ah-qwul," is a widely used framework in Integral Theory. It is also alternatively called the Integral Operating System (IOS) or by various other synonyms. Sri Aurobindo, Jean Gebser, and Ken Wilber, have all made significant theoretical contributions to integral theory. AQAL Theory – Lines. Principles and Properties: Lines in all quadrants: “What am I aware of?” Contemporary figures[edit] Themes[edit] H.
Quantum mind–body problem An interpretation of quantum mechanics is a set of statements which attempt to explain how quantum mechanics informs our understanding of nature. Although quantum mechanics has held up to rigorous and thorough experimental testing, many of these experiments are open to different interpretations. There exist a number of contending schools of thought, differing over whether quantum mechanics can be understood to be deterministic, which elements of quantum mechanics can be considered "real", and other matters. This question is of special interest to philosophers of physics, as physicists continue to show a strong interest in the subject. They usually consider an interpretation of quantum mechanics as an interpretation of the mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics, specifying the physical meaning of the mathematical entities of the theory. History of interpretations[edit] Main quantum mechanics interpreters Nature of interpretation[edit] Two qualities vary among interpretations:
Our brains are wired so we can better hear ourselves speak, new study shows Like the mute button on the TV remote control, our brains filter out unwanted noise so we can focus on what we’re listening to. But when it comes to following our own speech, a new brain study from the University of California, Berkeley, shows that instead of one homogenous mute button, we have a network of volume settings that can selectively silence and amplify the sounds we make and hear. Activity in the auditory cortex when we speak and listen is amplified in some regions of the brain and muted in others. In this image, the black line represents muting activity when we speak. Neuroscientists from UC Berkeley, UCSF and Johns Hopkins University tracked the electrical signals emitted from the brains of hospitalized epilepsy patients. Their findings, published today (Dec. 8, 2010) in the Journal of Neuroscience, offer new clues about how we hear ourselves above the noise of our surroundings and monitor what we say.
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