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Are languages merely tools for expressing our thoughts, or do they actually shape our thoughts?

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The mind is not the brain.

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You are what you pay attention to. A review of Gallagher's Rapt.

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Musically talented animals-humans aren't the only species with the neural wiring for dancing to music.

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Alva Noe: Most brain science is too reductive. The brain is not the author of our experience.

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Patricia Churchland: What do neuroscientific discoveries imply for free will & responsibility? via 3QD

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*Now* is 2.5 seconds long (give or take)

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on the elusive mystery of ourselves

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There may be some neurological truth to those claims that memorizing lists or daily Sudoku encourages mental limberness. Even more importantly, the results lend some support that people in early stages of Alzheimers disease may slow their cognitive declin

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We are always living nearly one-half second in the past. Now, it isn't surprising that there is some delay between an event and our becoming aware of it. This is the normal unfolding of cause and effect. This might not be a concern if we were just passive

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"Kids from lower socioeconomic levels show brain physiology patterns similar to someone who actually had damage in the frontal lobe as an adult," said Robert Knight, director of the institute and a UC Berkeley professor of psychology. "This is a wake-up c

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"an educational remix that examines the aesthetic, digital, linguistic, psychological, political, philosophical, computational, ethical, and socio-cultural factors influencing how we know ourselves and our worlds"

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What we find beautiful is influenced by culture, learning, experience, and, apparently, the structure and function of our brain.

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The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge by Jean-Pierre Changeux, translated from the French by M.B. DeBevoise

Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors: From Molecular Biology to Cognition by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Stuart J. Edelstein

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Brain's best guess theory of perception: perception is the brain's best guess about what is happening in the outside world.

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Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth. False beliefs are everywhere, and efforts to dispel misinformation are more difficult than one would expect because of quirky way our brains store memories and continue to mislead us.

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Some brains do deteriorate with age. But for most aging adults, much of what occurs is a gradually widening focus of attention and sifting through a clutter of information that makes it more difficult to latch onto just one fact like a name or a number.

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"What we don’t know is if the genetic changes caused the cultural changes or were synergistic, and even if they did, what exactly is going on in those big brains and how is it happening? Is it just happening in ours or is it happening but just to a less

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One morning neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor realized she was having a massive stroke. "...the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world..."

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