Patience is a virtue, but it’s also a brain state—what’s going on inside your head when you decide to play the waiting game?
Tag: <span>neuroscience</span>
Brain-machine interfaces have come a long way in the last decade. Now a group of computer scientists and neuroscientists from the University of San Francisco have taken things a step further. The researchers used two…
“I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’” —Alan Turing If we can map the brain in all its fine detail and reproduce it on a computer, perhaps we can upload people. As data…
We are not the logical, rational, thought-filled creatures we like to pretend we are. We are prone to misdirection, to being led up the garden path, to being taken for a ride. Molly Crockett, a…
When Rene Descartes declared “I think therefore I am,” what type of thinking do you suppose he meant? Marcus E. Raichle discovered the default mode network, and in 2005 showed that the human brain is intrinsically organized…
Music as a whole consists of many facets: Pitch, Loudness, Harmony, Timbre, Rhythm… The thing is, rhythm is a whole different beast to those others, it pulls us in with it’s timely thuds, even without…