Llinás was born in Bogota, Colombia. He went to the Gimnasio Moderno school in Bogota and graduated as a medical doctor from the Pontifical Xavierian UniversityWorkHe has studied the electrophysiolog ...
The segregation problem is the problem of how brains segregate elements in complex patterns of sensory input so that they are allocated to discrete "objects".Smythies defined BP1 in these terms: "How ...
Neural oscillations are observed throughout the central nervous system and at all levels, e.g., spike trains, local field potentials and large-scale oscillations which can be measured by electroenceph ...
The fMRI concept builds on the earlier MRI scanning technology and the discovery of properties of oxygen-rich blood. MRI brain scans use a strong, permanent, static magnetic field to align nuclei in t ...
The following history of EEG is detailed by Barbara E. Schwartz in Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. In 1875, Richard Caton (1842–1926), a physician practicing in Liverpool, presen ...
A science of consciousness must explain the exact relationship between subjective mental states and brain states, the nature of the relationship between the conscious mind and the electro-chemical int ...
Scientists were long aware that Tursiops dolphins might consist of more than one species. Molecular genetics allowed much greater insight into this previously intractable problem. The consensus is two ...
In 1970, Gordon Gallup Jr. experimentally investigated the possibility of self-recognition with two male and two female wild pre-adolescent chimpanzees, none of which had presumably seen a mirror prev ...
Gordon G. Gallup, Jr. (/?ɡ?l?p/; born 1941) is a psychologist in the University at Albany's Psychology department, researching biopsychology. He received his Ph.D. from Washington State University ...
It has been suggested that sense authorship is an illusion. Unconscious causes of thought and action might facilitate thought and action, while the agent experiences the thoughts and actions as being ...
One significant finding of modern studies is that a person's brain seems to commit to certain decisions before the person becomes aware of having made them. Researchers have found delays of about half ...
Heterophenomenology ("phenomenology of another not oneself") is a term coined by Daniel Dennett to describe an explicitly third-person, scientific approach to the study of consciousness and other ment ...
In 1962, Fehrer and Raab reported experiments where participants were required to press a single key as quickly as possible upon presentation of a visual target stimulus. The visibility of the target ...
The Necker cube is an ambiguous line drawing.Necker cube on the left, impossible cube on the right.One possible interpretation of the Necker cube, often claimed to be the most common interpretationAno ...
Properties described in this manner must be sufficiently accessible, so that persons other than the definer may independently measure or test for them at will. An operational definition is generally d ...
