Showing posts with label attention/perception. Show all posts
Showing posts with label attention/perception. Show all posts
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Tokens of sanity

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-Being a calm space in which nothing can hurry -An animal body that pretends to be human -Dissociating from the word cloud and...
Friday, July 26, 2024

Nuances of non-dual awareness - progress after "waking up" ?

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I want to share clips from a recent exchange at the Waking Up Community that I found very useful.  "Sam,":who is mentioned severa...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

From nematodes to humans a common brain network motif intertwines hierarchy and modularity.

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Pathak et al. (abstract below) suggest the evolved pattern they describe may apply to information processing networks in general, in partic...
Monday, March 18, 2024

The Physics of Non-duality

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 I want to pass on this lucid posting by "Sean L" of Boston to the community.wakingup.com site : The physics of nonduality In thi...
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Friday, February 23, 2024

Using caffeine to induce flow states

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I pass on this link to an article in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (open access) and show the Highlights and Abstract of the art...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Comparing how generative AI and living organisms generate meaning suggests future direction for AI development

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I want to pass on this open source opinion article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences by Karl Friston, Andy Clark, and other prominent figures...
Friday, February 09, 2024

Bodily maps of musical sensations across cultures

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Interesting work from Putkinen et al. (open source) :   Significance Music is inherently linked with the body. Here, we investigated how m...
Friday, January 05, 2024

Capturing non-dual reality in language

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For my own future reference and for MindBlog readers interested in my previous MindBlog posts on non-duality,  I want to pass on the start o...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Meta-Learned Models of Cognition

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I pass on the text of a recent email from Behavioral and Brain Sciences inviting commentary on an article by Binz et al.  I am beginning to ...
Monday, November 06, 2023

Visual event segmentation alters higher-level thought.

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An interesting piece of work from Ongchoco et al. :   Significance Numbers can be unexpectedly powerful. Suppose you must provide the last...
Friday, November 03, 2023

How our genes support our illusory selves - the "Baldwin effect"

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I have been thinking about giving more explanation of a paragraph from my Oct. 25 post, A Materialist's Credo : Modern neuroscience ha...
Wednesday, November 01, 2023

David Brooks on "What is a Person?"

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David Brooks has an astounding ability to simplify and present important ideas. I pass on a few clips from Chapter 5  - titled "What is...
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Monday, October 23, 2023

Architectural experience influences the processing of others’ body expressions

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An open source article by Presti et al :   Significance The motor system has been recognized as a fundamental neural machinery for spatial...
Monday, October 09, 2023

What your brain is doing after the light turns green.

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 Gandhi and collaboratores show that if you step out to cross the street without looking right or left the neural activity in the brain is ...
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Chemistry that regulates whether we stay with what we're doing or try something new

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Sidorenko et al. demonstrate that stimulating the brain's cholinergic and noradrenergic systems enhances optimal foraging behaviors in ...
Wednesday, September 06, 2023

Mapping the physical properties of odorant molecules to their perceptual characteristics.

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I pass on parts of the editor's summary and the abstract of a foundational piece of work by Lee et al. that produces a map linking odor...
Monday, September 04, 2023

Inhalation boosts perceptual awareness and decision speed

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From Ludovic Molle et al. (open source):   Significance Breathing is a ubiquitous biological rhythm in animal life. However, little is kn...
Monday, August 28, 2023

A shared novelty-seeking basis for creativity and curiosity

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I pass on the abstract of a target article having the title of this post, sent to me by Behavioral and Brain Science. I'm reading throug...
Monday, July 31, 2023

The visible gorilla.

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A staple of my lectures in the 1990s was showing the ‘invisible gorilla’ video, in which viewers were asked to count the number of times th...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Turing, von Neumann, and the computational architecture of biological machines

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I pass on the abstract of a PNAS perspective article by Hashim M. Al-Hashimi (motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article from me). ...