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How is the distinction between discrete and continuous materialized in the brain
It's generally admitted that some things are continuous (e.g. quantity of water, the length of a stick) whereas some other are not (how many oranges do I have in my bag?).
In mathematics, discrete ...
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Why does handedness suggest that the brain is asymmetrical?
From The Human Mind, by Paul Bloom:
If you just look at a brain - if you remove it from somebody's head and put it on the table - it looks symmetrical. But it isn't. The asymmetry of the brain is ...
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At what rate and to what extent do metabolic waste products from neurons diffuse throughout the brain?
At what rate and to what extent do metabolic waste products from neurons diffuse throughout the brain?
Do the metabolic waste products remain local to the neurons being used, or do those waste ...
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Roles of Brain Regions (neocortex and hippocampus) in Explicit (declarative) LTM
My question is what is the role of the hippocampus, neocortex and amygdala in the encoding, storage and retrieval of declarative (explicit) memory, specifically episodic and semantic
I am sort of ...
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What role does the brain play in some eye diseases such as myopia and astygmatism?
I wondered if the brain is partially responsible for some vision problems that are usually solely attributed to the eyes even if the primary dysfunction happens in the eye.
For instance,in eye ...
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Why do we feel inclined to doodle on paper when talking over the phone but not when talking in person?
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Revisiting an earlier theme about "mind complementary activities", as I would call them, it dawned on me that the classical example of how doodling on paper complements talking ...
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Doubt about diffused mode
Is the diffuse mode (the default mode network) basically mind wandering mode(daydreaming mode) recruits neurons within the prefrontal cortex in addition to the cingulate, joining them to the ...
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in this attentional blink experiment why is the second letter visible when the lag is low but not when the lag is high
this image is from the book Consciousness and the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene
the book describes the image as follows :
The attentional blink illustrates the temporal limitations of
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How do we know that neurons are the only cells involved in cognitive computation?
I am an undergraduate studying pure mathematics taking a class on computational neuroscience. My default lens for looking at the brain is in terms of universal computation (in the Turing machine sense)...
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Can the human brain be simulated by a computer?
There is a Wikipedia page on brain simulation, but:
Question: Could there be (experimental) evidence that the (human) brain cannot be simulated by a computer?
Note that the Wikipedia page Mind ...
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What are higher-level and lower-level brain functions?
The human brain can be described as a "Russian nesting doll" in the sense that the most ancient areas of the brain responsible for lower functions are located at its centre while newer ...
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What is the size, volume, dimensions etc. of the central lateral nucleus in the anterior intralaminar thalamus in humans?
I have been searching extensively on the internet and journal articles for the size, volume, dimensions, etc. of the central lateral nucleus in the anterior intralaminar thalamus in humans but have ...
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What happens inside the brain when we concentrate?
What happens inside the brain when we concentrate (meditate), and why does a person find it difficult to continuously concentrate for a long time? That is, why does one need a break after working or ...
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How action potential is generated while dreaming
I would like to know what generates the action potential in the brain areas that is relevant to dreaming, since our sensory nervous systems don't work (or do they?). What else can generate the action ...
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Question about the role of the sensory receptors compared to the sensory cortoces
I have two questions regarding the fact that each sensory receptor has its specific ion channels that open in response to a specific stimulus (for example, ion channel that opens when streching for ...
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