| Why You Really Do Prefer Coke or Pepsi? | |
Guess what? Your passionate preference for Coke or Pepsi is in your brain, not just your taste buds.Baylor University researchers gave 67 volunteers taste tests of Coke and Pepsi, and brain scans showed that when they knew what they were drinking... | |
| | How do you define intelligence???? | | What is intelligence?
Defining intelligence is highly problematic. Is there an 'intelligence' that equips us to solve all kinds of problems and answer all questions, regardless of their nature? Or are there different intelligences that help us deal... | |
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| Emotions - Limbic System Info | | The limbic system is a set of evolutionarily primitive brain structures located on top of the brainstem and buried under the cortex. Limbic system structures are involved in many of our emotions and motivations, particularly those that are related... | |
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| Animals dream in pictures, too | | When rats snuggle up for a nap, they replay "movies" of their daily activities in what scientists suggest is the animal equivalent of dreaming, a new study suggests.The research supports the idea that memories are cemented into the brain during... | |
| | Brief Primer on Vampire Biology | | This is from a scifi novel titled Blindsight by Canadian author/biologist Peter Watts: Homo sapiens vampiris was a short-lived Human subspecies which diverged from the ancestral line between 800,000 and 500,000 BP (before present). More gracile... | |
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| Do People Who Were Born Blind, See Dreams? | | No, they wouldn't. Visual stimulus is necessary for the wiring of the brain centers that process and interpret vision. The way the brain works is to develop, early in life, a huge number of neural synapses (connection points between neurons that are... | |
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| Smoking Changes Brain Chemistry | | This is an alarming article which i came across my mail box and it will shock smokersChronic smoking affects nerve cells and alters the chemical makeup of the brain, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society... | |
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