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The animal brain replays memories to map its environment

News: Neuroscience    March 14, 2010
“The point of the cognitive map is flexibility. It gives animals the ability to plan novel paths within their environment,” said Redish [A. David Redish, University of Minnesota Medical School, USA]. “This replay process may be an animal’s way of learning how the world is interconnected, so it can plan new routes or paths.” [Source: [...]
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It’s not a ‘stream’ of consciousness…

News: Neuroscience    February 6, 2010
In song and story the mind works as a stream of consciousness. Maybe not. Maybe it’s like a film, 24 frames per second but we perceive it as a continuous stream? Maybe it’s something else…like waves perhaps? Or, according to a recently published study from the University of Illinois (USA), at least the visual function [...]
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fMRI reveals conscious activity in vegetative brains

Impact: Neuroscience    February 4, 2010
It’s been seen in numerous movie and television dramas – the brain damaged patient, one with no outward sign of consciousness, who actually can hear, see, or think in an almost normal way. The doctors counsel, “Talk to him. It may do some good.” In dramas the patient usually recovers – talks, is grateful. In [...]
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