How Binaural Beats Affect Your Brain – and How They Don’t
Dec 21, 2017 · One way in which binaural beats may influence brain waves is through entrainment. Entrainment here means that the activity of your EEG becomes similar to a certain frequency set by an external stimulus. An example of entrainment is repetitive clicks: if you hear clicks at a certain frequency, your EEG is likely to show waves at this same frequency. ...
52 Brain Facts - Knowing Neurons
52 Brain Facts. Your brain is very complicated and fascinating! Every week for one year we posted a new and interesting fact about that 3 lb organ in your skull and other parts of the nervous system. Share these 52 Brain Facts with your friends and spread the knowledge! Check out our infographics in Spanish, German, and Turkish while you’re ...
The emergence of a hive mind: Should we worry? - Knowing …
January 31, 2018 DanielToker. [dropcap]T [/dropcap]he term “hive mind” refers to the apparent intelligence that emerges at the group level in some social species, particularly insects like honeybees and ants. An individual honeybee might not be very bright (although that’s debatable), but the honeybee colony as a collective might be very ...
This Is Your Brain on Twitter: The Neuroscience of Social Media
Jun 15, 2022 · Carolyn Amir is a Neuroscience PhD student at UCLA in Dr. Carrie Bearden's lab. Her current research focuses on using neuroimaging and genetics approaches to study the human brain and behavior in psychiatric and developmental disorders. Before coming to UCLA, Carolyn worked at the National Institutes of Health where she studied human pain, medication use and expectancy.
What can the trolley problem tell us about the brain?
Jun 27, 2023 · This sacrificial dilemma is known as the trolley problem, a thought experiment dreamed up by philosopher Philippa Foot in 1967.Perhaps most widely known as a meme today, the trolley problem and its variations (Thomson, 1985) have been used to great effect for decades by philosophers and scientists studying moral judgment and decision-making. The charm of these thought experiments for ...
Hubel and Wiesel & the Neural Basis of Visual Perception
Oct 29, 2014 · Snap! Crackle! Pop! Those are the sounds that Professors David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel heard in the early 1950s when they recorded from neurons in the visual cortex of a cat, as they moved a bright line across its retina. During their recordings, they noticed a few interesting things: (1) the neurons fired only when the line was in a particular place on the retina, (2) the activity of these ...
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The Brain’s Building Blocks: Of Protons and Voxels
Sep 27, 2017 · Re-enter the voxel: A portmanteau of “volume” and “pixel,” the voxel is a 3-dimensional unit that embeds the signals in brain scans. As the MRI machine scans through each dimension of the brain millimeter by millimeter, voxels are formed to enclose the signals created by protons-magnet interactions. The brain as scanned is made of ...
Can Neuroscience Explain the Mandela Effect? - Knowing Neurons
Feb 1, 2017 · There are probably several main reasons for the Mandela effect. The first is that a large number of general associations increase the probability that a false memory could emerge. Twin films with similar concepts being released at around the …
Synaptic bouton - Knowing Neurons
Axon terminal; synaptic boutons are small swellings that are found at the terminal ends of axons. Synaptic boutons are typically the sites where synapses with other neurons are found, and neurotransmitters are stored here to communicate with other neurons via these synapses. Kate graduated from Scripps College in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts ...