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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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Is there a formal name for the effect/cognitive bias of seeing something new
I'm wondering if there is a formal neuroscience or psychology term for the following: We see something new, fresh, and different and as a result pause just a little bit longer to look it over.
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How would you explain the relationship between "ideas", "beliefs", "mental images" and "thoughts"? [closed]
I'd really like to know how psychology and neuroscience are working with the concepts of "ideas", "beliefs", "mental images" and "thoughts" nowadays. I'm ...
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Why we do what we aren't allowed to do [closed]
Don't touch the red button, or don't touch that chocolate cake while I'm gone. Why is it that we most likely will touch them anyway?
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What's the difference between simultanagnosia and neurological extinction?
Both of these terms describe the inability to perceive more than one object at a time. I'm not too sure what the big difference is between them. Note that I'm referring to 'extinction' as used in ...
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What's the difference between repetition suppression and habituation?
Neural repetition suppression seems to be describing behavioral habituation on a neuronal level. What's the difference between these two terms?
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