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The Feeling of Life Itself by Christof Koch;
epub |eng | | Author:Christof Koch;

10 The Über-Mind and Pure Consciousness An appealing feature of integrated information theory is its fecundity in spawning new ideas such as the primitive but effective consciousness meter I just ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology February 15,2020 )
Why We Believe by Agustin Fuentes
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-09-24 | Author:Agustin Fuentes

CHAPTER 9 Economies MANY PEOPLE believe contemporary economies emerged as a necessary reality of the world.1 This is at least partially wrong. Nearly all humans participate in some form of ...
( Category: Developmental Biology February 14,2020 )
Electric Brain by R. Douglas Fields
epub |eng | 2019-11-28 | Author:R. Douglas Fields,

FIGURE 29: Microelectrode “Utah Array” for implantation into the cerebral cortex for BCI and used to control prosthetic limbs. The array provides 128 channels for recording neural activity through microfabricated ...
( Category: Biology February 9,2020 )
Friendship by Lydia Denworth
epub |eng | 2019-11-11 | Author:Lydia Denworth

Most of us do not have only four friends. Those in our outer circles—and beyond—are an important part of our lives, too. Scientists approach the study of those people a ...
( Category: Biology February 7,2020 )
Reflections on the Musical Mind by Schulkin Jay Gjerdingen Robert O
epub |eng | 2013-02-01 | Author:Schulkin, Jay, Gjerdingen, Robert O.

Figure 6.1 (a) Attentional responses are greater in neonates to consonant melodies versus dissonant melodies. (b) Fewer motor actions to consonant melodies versus dissonant melodies. Source: Zentner and Kagan 1996. ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology February 2,2020 )
Imagination by Jim Davies
epub |eng | 2019-08-28 | Author:Jim Davies

HOME ECONOMICS Time to use your imagination. Imagine that you are about to buy a milkshake, and it’s $10. Then you hear that there’s an identical milkshake for sale. It’s ...
( Category: Biology January 30,2020 )
Human Diversity by Charles Murray
epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:Charles Murray

It is important to emphasize that Feldman, Turkheimer, and like-minded colleagues are not merely repeating Graham Coop’s cautions about how many complications remain unresolved. They aren’t just saying that it’s ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies January 30,2020 )
How We Learn by Stanislas Dehaene
epub, mobi |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:Stanislas Dehaene

Long before computers were invented, the Italian doctor and teacher Maria Montessori (1870–1952) noticed how a variety of practical activities could develop concentration in young children. In today’s Montessori schools, ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 29,2020 )
The Angel and the Assassin by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
epub |eng | 2020-01-20 | Author:Donna Jackson Nakazawa

* * * — Let’s imagine all of this in a potential real-life scenario. Imagine a woman in midlife, like Katie, whose grandmother died of early-onset Alzheimer’s. Now imagine that ...
( Category: Nervous System January 28,2020 )
Transcendence by Gaia Vince
epub |eng | 2020-01-20 | Author:Gaia Vince

WITHIN THESE BROAD domesticating parameters, a flourishing of diverse groups practicing different social norms emerged, and these differences changed the minds and bodies of the people who practiced them. Cultural ...
( Category: Biology January 22,2020 )
Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion by E. Fuller Torrey
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:E. Fuller Torrey

The second thing that had to happen before the higher gods could emerge was the coming together of a critical mass of people. Groups of hunter-gatherers, which usually numbered fewer ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 19,2020 )
Power, Sex, Suicide by Lane Nick;
epub |eng | 2018-09-20 | Author:Lane, Nick;

1 How do we reconcile Max Rubner’s exponent of 2/3 with Max Kleiber’s 3/4? The usual answer is that within species the metabolic rate does indeed vary with 2/3, and ...
( Category: Cell Biology January 19,2020 )
The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis by Ralph Adolphs
epub |eng | 2018-05-31 | Author:Ralph Adolphs

FIGURE 6.5. Distinct brain regions involved in different types of fear. (A) Schematic illustrating coronal section of a mouse brain indicating hippocampus (HC), bed nucleus of the stria terminals (BNST), ...
( Category: Neurology January 19,2020 )
Blueprint by Robert Plomin
epub |eng | 2018-10-26 | Author:Robert Plomin

12 The DNA fortune teller It has been known for decades that the heritability of psychological disorders and dimensions is caused by many DNA differences, not just one or two ...
( Category: Developmental Biology January 19,2020 )
Altered States of Consciousness by Wittmann Marc; Hurd Philippa;
epub |eng | 2018-09-13 | Author:Wittmann, Marc; Hurd, Philippa;

Notes 1. Karl Jaspers, Psychologie der Weltanschauungen, 3rd ed. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925), 112. 2. See, for example, the ideas of the sociologist Hartmut Rosa in Social Acceleration: A New ...
( Category: Neurology January 19,2020 )

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