Sublime

One of the leading researchers in this area is Donna Rose Addis, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Aging and a senior scientist at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto. Her work has redefined the function of episodic memory as being ‘primarily future-focused’, and she recently discovered that some parts of the hippoc

Reflect the world. Brains match themselves to their input. Wrap around the inputs. Brains leverage whatever information streams in. Drive any machinery. Brains learn to control whatever body plan they discover themselves inside of. Retain what matters. Brains distribute their resources based on relevance. Lock down stable information. Some parts of

prefrontal cortex. For example, the side of this region is crucial for how we pay attention; it enables us to put things in the “front of our mind” and hold them in awareness. The middle portion of the prefrontal area, the part damaged in Barbara, coordinates an astonishing number of essential skills, including regulating the body, attuning to othe

At the most basic, some things that we know to be potential objects of experience – sounds at particularly high or low frequencies, for example – are not available to us, though they may be to bats and bears; and that's simply because our brains do not deal with them. We know, too, that when parts of the brain are lost, a chunk of available experie

Many neuroscientists are empiricists: together, with the English Enlightenment philosopher John Locke (1632–1704), they presume that the brain simply draws its

Trance states, during which theta activity dominates, can help to loosen the conditioned connections between particular stimuli and responses, such as loud cracks signaling gunfire, a harbinger of death.

The 11th Shadow greatly limits a very specific functioning of the right hemisphere of the human brain — that aspect of your mind that does not see patterns and facts through language and number, but grasps reality through reams of interconnected and intuitively grasped fractal images emerging from the deep recesses of the brain.