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This year
Brain Dominance Test (Online-Test) - test your brain dominance - The IPN
by ericpaul
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Brain Dominance Test (Online-Test)
Numerical Enigma | Smartkit Puzzles and Brain Teasers
by smartkit
Can you decipher the code and figure out who Smartkit is talking about in their new online game Baby Enigma?
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2008
Extracting Images From the Brain
by keusta
(via)
According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while they sleep ( du reve à la réalité )
Reverse engineering the brain, IEEE Spectrum article - Boing Boing
by jeanruaud
a transdisciplinary team of biologists, neuroscientists, physicists, and engineers hope their studies of Drosophilia could one day enable them to generate a complete circuit diagram of the human brain.
What Dictionaries and Optical Illusions Say About Our Brains: Scientific American
by ogrisel
Although many neuroscientists are trying to figure out how the brain works, Mark Changizi is bent on determining why it works that way. In the past, the assistant professor of cognitive science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has demonstrated that the shapes of letters in 100 writing systems reflect common ones seen in nature...
Mind Hacks: Do Bayesian statistics rule the brain?
by ogrisel
& 1 other
(via)
This week's New Scientist has a fascinating article on a possible 'grand theory' of the brain that suggests that virtually all brain functions can be modelled with Bayesian statistics - an approach discovered by an 18th century vicar.
Bayesian theory in New Scientist « Reverendbayes’s Weblog
by ogrisel
(via)
The quest to understand the most complex object in the known universe has been a long and fruitful one. These days we know a good deal about how the human brain works - how our senses translate into electrical signals, how different parts of the brain process these signals, how memories form and how muscles are controlled. We know which brain regions are active when we listen to speech, look at paintings or barter over money. We are even starting to understand the deeper neural processes behind learning and decision-making.
Welcome to the OpenEEG project
by rike_
& 1 other
Many people are interested in what is called neurofeedback or EEG biofeedback training, a generic mental training method which makes the trainee consciously aware of the general activity in the brain. This method shows great potential for improving many mental capabilities and exploring consciousness. Other people want to do experiments with brain-computer interfaces or just want to have a look at their brain at work.
2007
Obesity and Brain Power in middle age
by smartkit
If you are overweight, here’s some additional incentive to lose the pounds from a recent study in the journal Neurology that suggests there is a connection between obesity and brain power amongst the middle aged.
Staying Young Means Keeping Active – Mind and Body
by hollydodd
In my work I help a lot of senior citizens. It’s always amazing to me when I meet one that is so young and vibrant looking. Time and time these cool people tell me that one of the main reasons they are doing so well is because they keep their minds active with hobbies like reading, word puzzles and even learning a second language.
