The authors of a new book show that the discoveries of neuroscience — and most especially
discoveries about the human brain — have implications for how we speak of the self and the self's relationship to God.
Although in the past few decades we have learnt
more about the human brain than in all previous centuries, we are still nowhere near a complete understanding of the brains and its potential role in moral leanings or moral sensitivities.
«These findings are important because much of what we
know about the human brain and cognition is based on studies that have relied on relatively impoverished 2D images presented on a computer screen,» Snow explained.
It's a way of saying: If you aren't rich, you probably don't have the aesthetic capacity to enjoy a classical music broadcast or the intelligence to follow a Nova
program about the human brain.
The more that we
understand about the human brain and how it processes political information, the clearer it is that engagement depends on campaigns» ability to move voters emotionally.
Hawks counters that it might be a little early to begin drawing
conclusions about human brain evolution from genetic comparisons with archaic relatives.
Scientists know
less about the human brain than any other part of the body, but recent studies suggest answers to three tough questions:
He emerged in 1994 from the windowless bowels of the Arizona hospital where he still works as an anesthesiologist to put forward what seemed — at the time — some of the more outlandish
ideas about the human brain.
That left him
curious about the human brain, an interest that took hold when he took a course on neural networks as a master's degree student at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Perhaps fitting for a
question about the human brain — which packs in more than 100 billion neurons, according to the National Institutes of Health — but the answer is mired in complexities and unknowns.
This approach shows that BOLD and field potential measures provide complementary
information about human brain activity and we infer that features of the field potential that are uncorrelated with BOLD arise largely from changes in synchrony, rather than level, of neuronal activity.
This one seems like an early contender for the title this year, as Lucy races from Taiwan to Paris to track down Freeman's character, a scientist whose
theories about the human brain dovetail nicely with what's happening to hers.
During my interview, we'll be discussing the lessons Predictably Irrational
teaches about the human brain and their implications for business owners and marketers.
I'm not a science geek (although I do love a good dinosaur or galaxy discovery) but in my search for inner peace following my marriage break - up — which keeps being thwarted by 3 am mental gymnastics — I've discovered the most fascinating
thing about the human brain.
Michael Shermer is spot
on about the human brain's pattern - seeking abilities, but not about the reasons why people engage in...
«Thanks to two scientists, federal funding, and a mistake in the lab, we have new
discoveries about the human brain and how to improve eyesight in children,» said Rep. Jim Cooper (D - TN), whose idea it was to create the Golden Goose Award.
A key focus of the CTA is to explore and integrate
findings about the human brain and child development into practical implications for the education, protection and nurturing of children.
Ten schools from the Independent Schools Association along with their partner schools from the maintained sector took part in a large - scale experiment to learn
more about the human brain.
Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, but what is
it about the human brain that makes us so different?
«What bat brains might tell
us about human brains.»