Mindseum

RadioLab: Decoding the Void

"With the discovery of anesthesia, however, came a strange new problem: nobody was quite sure what was happening when the brain slipped from consciousness into this new, drugged state.

radiolab.org/story/anesthesia

Neural network reconstructs human thoughts from brain waves in real time

TechExplore @ Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology 103019 @ Platyus

techxplore.com/news/2019-10-neural-network-reconstructs-human-thoughts.html

Heroes of science /engineering unlocking human brain

Popular Mechanics 10/18 [TK]

popularmechanics.com/science/health/a22824573/the-brain

Building blocks of memories in the brain lighting up for the first time

Fascinating visual evidence of memory in the making

dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3796890/What-happens-recall-past-Building-blocks-memories-seen-lighting-brains-time.html

How the brain turns reality into dreams

Tests involving Tetris point to the role played by ‘implicit memories’

nbcnews.com/id/3077505

A look inside the brain in real time

Neuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms demonstrates a new way to use fMRI to show brain activity — thoughts, emotions, pain — while it is happening. In other words, you can actually see how you feel.

ted.com/talks/christopher_decharms_scans_the_brain_in_real_time

Prosthetic hand gives patients back sense of touch

DARPA-funded neuro-robotic research

care2.com/greenliving/new-prosthetic-hand-gives-patients-back-their-sense-of-touch.html

Music created directly from the brain (waves)

Neurofeedback, brain-computer-creativity interfaces [TK]

creators.vice.com/en_us/article/4xqv53/10-pieces-of-music-created-by-brainwaves

Unique Human Brain Area Identified that Separates Us From Monkeys

First study to compare human and monkey brains with modern MRI methods reaches fascinating conclusions.

spring.org.uk/2014/02/unique-human-brain-area-identified-that-separates-us-from-monkeys.php

Art helps more than the creative brain

"I love how art lets me express myself," said Pier fifth-grader Jaimie Deschand. "And it shows other people how I view the world."

fdlreporter.com/story/news/local/2015/03/05/art-helps-creative-brain/24464009

That's Tasty

For food to have a taste, it must be dissolved in water.

faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tasty.html

Brain-Controlled Typing May Be the Killer Advance That AR Needs

Exploring how people can use technology, especially VR/AR, with their brains rather than typing and clicking.

technologyreview.com/s/609334/brain-controlled-typing-may-be-the-killer-advance-that-ar-needs

Could the "Alzheimer's Gene" Finally Become a Drug Target?

Scientists explore/discuss the possibilty of treatment for Alzheimers if APOE, a gene strongly correlated to Alzheimers can be targeted or shut down.

scientificamerican.com/article/could-the-ldquo-alzheimer-rsquo-s-gene-rdquo-finally-become-a-drug-target

Researchers Walk Out First Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Leg

The leg works by redirecting nerves headed to the damaged muscle, to the hamstrings, and a nearby sensor that reads what the nerves are communicate.

youtube.com/watch

Ingenious hand-painted phrenology bike helmet.

The hand-painted, one-of-a-kind Phrenology cycling helmet by Belle Helmets lets people know what you’re really thinking.

explore.brainpickings.org/post/18669147469/ingenious-hand-painted-phrenology-bike-helmet

Targeting certain rogue T cells prevents and reverses multiple sclerosis: Mouse study

TH17 cells produced increased amounts of SerpinB1, a protein implicated in multiple sclerosis symptoms. SerpinB1 cells were identified with antibodies targeting the CXCR6 surface protein. Using monoclonal antibodies to target CXCR6, the cells disappeared significantly, and the mice primed to develop MS did not develop the disease.

neurosciencenews.com/t-cell-multiple-sclerosis-reversal-15029

Brainwave 2012: Jane Pauley + Sebastian Seung

What is responsible for the persistence of some memories, like a first kiss? Are our minds like wax tablets, as Plato suggests, waiting to be engraved upon?

youtube.com/watch

Robotic hand restores sense of touch

Smithsonian Magazine 072619 [TK]

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/robotic-hand-restores-wearers-sense-touch-180972737

The Brain's GPS May Also Help Us Map Our Memories (NPR, 11/4/15)

"A brain system that helps us find our way to the supermarket may also help us navigate a lifetime of memories. At least that's the implication of a study of rats published in the journal Neuron. It found that special brain cells that track an animal's location also can track time and distance. This could explain how rat and human brains are able to organize memories according to where and when an event occurred. The cells, called grid cells, appear to be "laying down the sequence of space and time that provide a framework for events that are unfolding," says Howard Eichenbaum, an author of the study and director of the Center for Memory and Brain at Boston University.

npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/11/04/454651329/the-brains-gps-may-also-help-us-map-our-memories

The Wired Child Series: Q and A with Media Psychologist

Is our current technology shift all that different from major media advances in the past?

amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/news-posts/the-wired-child-series-q-and-a-with-media-psychologist

Neuroscience of acoustics

Auditory Neuroscience [KL]

auditoryneuroscience.com/acoustics

The dreaming brain may provide scientists with a never-before-seen window into consciousness [BP]

The back of our brain that triggers dreaming is linked directly with consciousness.

businessinsider.com/brain-activity-dreams-dreaming-consciousness-2017-4

New Brain Therapy Offers Relief to People who Hear Voices

A new brain therapy has proved effective in helping people with schizophrenia ease their hallucinations [SU]

huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-brain-therapy-offers-promising-relief-to-people-who-hear-voices_us_59baa852e4b02da0e13fe73b

Probing the many mysteries of memory

Undark - 12/18 [TK]

undark.org/article/adventures-in-memory

Brain basics: sleep (NIH.gov)

Basic info on brain activity in sleep, sleep disorders

ninds.nih.gov/disorders/brain_basics/understanding_sleep.htm

Lucy

Chimps. Bonobos. Humans. We're all great apes, but that doesn’t mean we’re one happy family.

radiolab.org/story/91705-lucy

Why are you SAD in winter? Special brain-eye circuit discovered that may help explain winter seasonal depression

KQED Future of You Dec 2018 [TK]

kqed.org/futureofyou/446028/scientists-find-a-brain-circuit-that-could-explain-seasonal-depression

Neuroscape: Video Game Research to improve mind quality

UCSF, via summer neuroscience student internship program [Pratya P}

neuroscape.ucsf.edu

DNA: Comparing Humans and Chimps

Humans and chimps share a surprising 98.8 percent of their DNA. How can we be so similar--and yet so different?

amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent-exhibitions/human-origins-and-cultural-halls/anne-and-bernard-spitzer-hall-of-human-origins/understanding-our-past/dna-comparing-humans-and-chimps

Artificial intelligence is learning to read your mind—and display what it sees

Artificial Intelligence using complex algorithms to decipher the human brain and what it sees, feels, and hears. [SU]

sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/artificial-intelligence-learning-read-your-mind-and-display-what-it-sees

Neuroscience confirms your subconscious shapes your reality

BigThink.com video @DavidEagleman Oct 2015 [TK]

bigthink.com/ideafeed/neuroscience-confirms-your-subconscious-shapes-your-reality

The fMRI As Lie Detector

Scans are now able to detect a lie with between 70 and 90 percent accuracy because of their ability to record changes in specific parts of the brain.

bigthink.com/ideafeed/the-fmri-as-lie-detector

Global Mind Project

An interdisciplinary arts and cognitive neuroscience initiative that explores creative and technological possibilities for generative art using brainwaves

globalmindproject.com

Prialt blocks motor synapse in fish

Drug derived from cone snail venom paralyzes fish by blocking calcium channels at a motor synapse.

hhmi.org/biointeractive/prialt-blocks-motor-synapse-fish

Neuroscientists may have discovered the neuroscience-roots of anxiety

Big Think 020918 [TK]

bigthink.com/philip-perry/scientists-have-discovered-where-anxiety-comes-from-inside-the-brain

Computer Or Human? + Thad

Alix and Lulu begin with the story of a man who challenges the machine that gave him a speeding ticket. Then we hear from Thad Starner, who has been wearing a computer since 1993.

npr.org/2015/02/13/385793862/computer-or-human-thad

Touch's Social Significance Could Be Explained by Unique Nerve Fibers

A long-overlooked system of nerves that respond to gentle strokes may be crucial to our ability to form connections with one another

scientificamerican.com/article/touch-s-social-significance-could-be-explained-by-unique-nerve-fibers

Reading stories creates universal patterns in the brain

Researchers discovered that reading a story or narrative activates the same parts of the brain regardless of what language the story is told in. [SU]

medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319665.php

Brain surgery on musician guided by fMRI brain mapping

NPR All Things Considered 8/25/17 [TK]

npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/25/545710598/this-music-teacher-played-his-saxophone-while-in-brain-surgery

First Look at Brain: The Inside Story

Drawing on 21st-century research and technology, Brain: The Inside Story offers visitors a new perspective and keen insight into their own brains through imaginative art, vivid brain-scan imaging, and dynamic interactive exhibits for all ages.

youtube.com/watch

The most common brain myth

VeryWell.com (09/16): [TK]

verywell.com/10-percent-of-brain-myth-2794882

Facebook funds “mind-reading” experiment: turning thoughts into typed text

BBC 072019 [TK]

bbc.com/news/technology-49165713

Oliver Sacks, M.D.

One of our greatest contemporary medical neuroscientists, writers, storytellers and polymaths;author of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," "Awakenings," "Musicophelia", "The Mind's Eye", etc.

oliversacks.com

Surprising new region of brain involved in learning and memory

Columbia Zuckerman Institute [TK]

eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/tzia-nsi021919.php

Neuroscience and new insights on brain/mind & creativity

Fast Company, via Degreed.com (Tk)

fastcompany.com/1007044/neuroscience-sheds-new-light-creativity

Ronan keeps the beat: sea lion learns to keep rhythm

UC Santa Cruz, Marine Lab and Psychology

youtube.com/watch

Breathing can improve memory

Health.com: [KL]

health.com/mind-body/breathing-memory-fear

New form of neural communication in brain discovered

Science Alert @PlatypusInstitute [David Bach]

sciencealert.com/neuroscientists-say-they-ve-found-an-entirely-new-form-of-neural-communication/amp

Neuroscience says your "gut" is often your best guide to decision-making

From research by Antonio Damasio at USC

fastcompany.com/3049248/the-future-of-work/scientific-proof-that-your-gut-is-best-at-making-decisions

Language and Art: Mona Lisa's Smile

A painting can appear to change before our eyes as we try to visualize incongruous descriptions of what we are told is there to be seen.

leopoldsegedin.com/essay_detail_mona_lisas_smile.cfm

11 Powerful Images That Prove How Music Really Can Change the World

Music has a fundamental human power. It finds you on your way to work or when you're watching the opening montage in Up and can't keep from crying.

mic.com/articles/91925/11-powerful-images-that-prove-how-music-really-can-change-the-world

Discovering the brain’s memory switch

Scientists have recorded evidence of the brain turning off its memory inhibitor to make new memories.

sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151002082303.htm

Ludovico technique

The Ludovico technique is a fictional aversion therapy from the novel A Clockwork Orange.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovico_technique

When We Hear Music, Memories Fill Our Minds

Living With Dementia

huffingtonpost.com/michael-friedman-lmsw/music-dementia_b_1483446.html

New map of brain redraws boundaries of neuroscience

Wired [TK]

wired.com/2016/07/new-map-brain-redraws-boundaries-neuroscience

Carl Jung and the ‘leap of faith’ into individuation

The Red Book has been described as Carl Jung’s creative response to the threat of madness, yet it has also been seen as a deliberate exercise in self-analysis.

acestoohigh.com/2013/10/23/carl-jung-and-the-leap-of-faith-into-individuation

Scientists discover new human species relative: Homo naledi

Scientists say they've discovered a new member of the human family tree, revealed by a huge trove of bones in a barely accessible, pitch-dark chamber of a cave in South Africa. The creature shows a surprising mix of human-like and more primitive characteristics — some experts called it "bizarre" and "weird."

latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-scientists-discover-new-human-relative-20150910-story.html

Hearing through your skin— and other sensory substitution

BigThink - @neurosensory.com @DavidEagleman

bigthink.com/in-their-own-words/hearing-through-your-skin-and-other-adventures-sensory-substitution

Benefits of playing musical instruments for brain development

GetPocket [Patti K]

getpocket.com/explore/item/the-benefits-of-playing-music-help-your-brain-more-than-any-other-activity

NeuroSky Brainwave Visualizer Introduction

The Visualizer shows the wearer the three different types of brainwave information coming off the ThinkGear chip as well as providing the ability to identify blinks.

vimeo.com/34486115

Brainwaves as passwords a boon for wearable computing

Researchers show the potential of thought-based authentication using a stock gaming headset that captured EEG signals

csoonline.com/article/2133279/access-control/brainwaves-as-passwords-a-boon-for-wearable-computing.html

Movie Watches You

and changes endings depending on your reaction

digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/in-plymouth-u-k-movie-watches-you-and-changes-endings-depending-on-your-reaction

Live Coding of Visualizations

enables immediate feedback

tributary.io

Evolution of Primate Sense of Smell and Full Trichromatic Color Vision

Investigating the deterioration of olfactory receptor (OR) genes in primates, Yoav Gilad and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and the Weizmann Institute in Israel found a correlation between the loss of OR genes and the acquisition of full trichromatic color vision.

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article

Bats' brains synchronize when they socialize

UC Berkeley News: Mind & Body, Research Science, Environment, 0619 [TK]

news.berkeley.edu/2019/06/20/bats-brains-sync-when-they-socialize

The genius neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI

WIRED, Shaun Raviv (11/13/18): Karl Friston, Free Energy Principle [TK]

wired.com/story/karl-friston-free-energy-principle-artificial-intelligence

Researchers Can Use Brain Activity to Measure How Well You Understand a (STEM) Concept

Interesting Engineering (Dartmouth); AI, Neuroscience [TK]

interestingengineering.com/researchers-can-use-brain-activity-to-measure-how-well-you-understand-a-concept

Why humans have such freakishly large brains

Wired: Nov 29 2015 physical anthropology (TK)

sciencefriday.com/articles/does-sound-affect-the-way-we-taste

Our brains appear to be uniquely tuned for musical pitch

Science Daily, via NIH: 07/19 [TK, via David Bach on Twitter]

sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190711111913.htm

Smell, memory & smell/brain disorders

ScienceFriday.com 11/16/18 [TK]

sciencefriday.com/segments/the-social-power-of-smell

No, Not that Left, Your OTHER Left!

People take two and a half times longer to identify right hands from left hands. Naming, even noticing, right from left is just not easy.

radiolab.org/story/165923-krulwich-wonders-not-left

Google's Lab at the Cultural Institute (based in Paris & London)

intersection of arts, culture and technologies

google.com/culturalinstitute/thelab

Rubber Hand Illusion

YouTube & BBC: touch, sight

youtube.com/watch

Why We Love Music—and Freud Despised It

Did the father of psychoanalysis suffer from music phobia?

psychologytoday.com/blog/evil-deeds/201211/why-we-love-music-and-freud-despised-it

Brain implants to improve human cognitive capacity to keep up with robots/AI

Chritopher Koch, Allen Insitute of Beain Science, Scientific American 11/17 [TK]

blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/do-we-need-brain-implants-to-keep-up-with-robots

A Symbiotic Cognitive Experience

Human-computer collaboration at the speed of thought

researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php

Game Theory Red vs Blue

The theory behind colors in video games and the psychology that drives it.

youtube.com/watch

Jump-Starter Kits for the Mind

What if you could establish the neural pathways that lead to virtuosity more quickly?

nytimes.com/2013/10/29/science/jump-starter-kits-for-the-mind.html

RadioLab: Who am I?

The "mind" and "self" were formerly the domain of philosophers and priests. But in this hour of Radiolab, neurologists lead the charge on profound questions like "How does the brain make me?"

radiolab.org/story/91496-who-am-i

'Seeing' the flavor of foods before tasting them

The eyes sometimes have it, beating out the tongue, nose and brain in the emotional and biochemical balloting that determines the taste and allure of food, a scientist said at a recent meeting.

sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130411194017.htm

Lucid Dreaming: How dreams feel

indicates the whole area of lucid dreaming

world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/what-do-lucid-dreams-feel-like.html

Why (modern art) makes your brain

Salon [TK]

salon.com/2016/12/18/this-is-your-brain-on-art-a-neuroscientists-lessons-on-why-abstract-art-makes-our-brains-hurt-so-good

Reliance on ‘Gut Feelings’ Linked to Belief in Fake News

Neuroscience News, Sep. 18, 2017 [SU]

neurosciencenews.com/gut-feeling-fake-news-7513

Lucid Dreaming

ThoughtCo [TK]

thoughtco.com/lucid-dreaming-4150528

squirrel monkey treated for red-green color blindness

When will the red-green color blindness cure be ready for humans?

neitzvision.com/content/genetherapy.html

AI produced art now looks more convincingly human

Deep neural networks are learning to make art and the results are impressive.: ArtNet.com [TK]

news.artnet.com/art-world/rutgers-artificial-intelligence-art-1019066

Radiolab Live: Tell-Tale Hearts featuring Oliver Sacks

Radiolab performed a live show and this episode we're bringing you a few of the highlights. They were stories of what motivates us, our drives, our loves and losses. Producer Molly Webster tells us the story of life, near-death and what happens when your heart starts to work against you. And we visit with Dr. Oliver Sacks one last time to reflect on his life, his loves and his endless sense of wonder.

radiolab.org/story/radiolab-live-telltale-hearts-featuring-oliver-sacks

Brain Maps

The Study of Brain Function in the Nineteenth Century

cerebromente.org.br/n01/frenolog/frenloc.htm

The race to create a better computer-brain interface

WIRED 111717 [TK]

wired.com/story/inside-the-race-to-build-a-brain-machine-interface

How playing a musical instrument benefits your brain

Anita Collins (TED-Ed) (TK)

youtube.com/watch

What it takes to be a human echolocator: seeing through sound feedback

Wired, sight, sound [TK]

wired.com/2017/08/takes-expert-human-echolocator

The microbiota–gut–brain axis

Nature Research 6/17/19: A link between the gut microbiota and the brain[T.S.]

nature.com/articles/d42859-019-00021-3

Seeing and Touching Closely Linked in Brain

Magnetic resonance brain scans and specially programmed computers were used to better explain how memory and the senses interact.

psychcentral.com/news/2011/09/09/seeing-and-touching-closely-linked-in-brain/29290.html

Deja vu is (actually) a neurological phenomena

Big Think [TK]

bigthink.com/philip-perry/deja-vu-is-a-neurological-phenomenon-scientists-claim

Neuroscience of Habits: How they form and how to change them

Scientific American: Mind [JL]

scientificamerican.com/article/power-of-habit-excerpt

The Edge of Dreaming

PBS KQED POV (8/24/10): Dreams, sleep: hrough countless experiments, psychologists, neuroscientists and other researchers have made great strides in understanding what goes on while people are out for the night. It’s clear now that much more happens than was previously thought – but having to rely on subjects’ own accounts of their dreams has imposed obvious limitations. There’s still much to learn. [TK]

pbs.org/pov/edgeofdreaming/background

Molecules 'light up' Alzheimer's roots

Researchers at Rice University have discovered that when certain metallic molecules attach themselves to proteins called fibrils, they increase the photoluminescence of the metals. This allows researchers to more easily identify Alzheimer's as the proteins, known to cause degeneration, can be easily tracked. (DT)

bioengineering.rice.edu/Content.aspx

Handwork: Hands, Drawing, Mind & Creativity

Lynda Barry (U Wisconsin): To The Best Of Our Knowledge (TK)

ttbook.org/book/handwork

How the Brain Receives Art

The article talks about how your brain reacts to specific types of art

wired.com/2011/12/how-does-the-brain-perceive-art

Could future devices read images from our brains?

As an expert on cutting-edge digital displays, Mary Lou Jepsen studies how to show our most creative ideas on screens.

ted.com/talks/mary_lou_jepsen_could_future_devices_read_images_from_our_brains

Neuroscientists “inject” information directly into monkey’s cortex

Neuron, 12.17 [TK]

cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(17)31034-6

How does fear affect /what happens in our brains

Smithsonian mag, [10/30/17] [TK]

smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-happens-brain-feel-fear-180966992

How musicians' brains work as they play music

Neuroscience News 2016 [Dave Master, TK]

neurosciencenews.com/musicians-playing-neuroscience-5672

Mind-Controlled Technology Extends Beyond Exoskeletons

Smithsonian: A wearable robot controlled by brain waves will take center stage at the World Cup this week—but it's not the only mind-controlled tech out there [TK]

smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/mind-controlled-technology-beyond-exoskeletons-180951710

Red-Headed Neanderthals

Ancient DNA has been used to show aspects of Neanderthal appearance.

humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/ancient-dna-and-neanderthals/neanderthal-genes-red-hair-and-more

Paralyzed man moves fingers, plays Guitar Hero with brain implant milestone

PBS News Hour: brain chip implants, neural engineering, bioengineering, brain- and thought-controlled somatic movement

pbs.org/newshour/updates/paralyzed-man-moves-fingers-plays-guitar-hero-with-brain-implant-milestone

The Two Sides of Music

How the brain processes the experience of music.

jackhdavid.thehouseofdavid.com/papers/brain.html

New $2 Billion chip to accelerate AI research

MIT Tech Review: Nvidia chip- neuron-based architecture: AI, Robotics

technologyreview.com/s/601195/a-2-billion-chip-to-accelerate-artificial-intelligence

public domain sounds

With recording devices and microphones pdsounds volunteers acoustically discover the beauty of the world. From the million sounds of things to the pure waves of sinus. Our goal is to record it all and make it available for free.

pdsounds.org

Your Brain on Fiction

Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed description, an evocative metaphor or an emotional exchange between characters.

nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-neuroscience-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html

Radio Lab: Wild Talk (animal talk & language)

Sounds and language / communication of animals from jungle to prairies

radiolab.org/story/98611-wild-talk

Eye-tracking tech will be a game changer for VR

Wearable-Technologies.com 0518 [TK]

wearable-technologies.com/2018/05/eye-tracking-is-going-to-be-a-game-changer-for-virtual-reality

Music & Personality

Psychology: different personality types & music preferences

verywell.com/music-and-personality-2795424

Smart neural stimulators

IEEE Spectrum (Jan 2015): bionics, neurotech [KL]

spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/smart-neural-stimulators-listen-to-the-body

Rubber Hand Illusion

BBC YouTube: touch, sight

youtube.com/watch

The Intention Machine - next gen brain-computer interfaces

Scientific American [TK]

scientificamerican.com/article/machines-that-translate-wants-into-actions

Do Genetics Determine Sense of Smell

This describes how an experiment shows genetics can determine smell (TL)

consumer.healthday.com/health-technology-information-18/genetics-news-334/sense-of-smell-determined-by-genes-study-says-678670.html%20(T.L)

How sounds entering the brain become interpreted as words

Science Daily 11/18/18 [TK]

sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181129142352.htm

First brain-to-brain ‘telepathy’ communication via the Internet

The first brain-to-brain telepathy-like communication between two participants via the Internet has been performed by University of Washington researchers. The experiment used a question-and-answer game. The goal is for the “inquirer” to determine which object the “respondent” is looking at from a list of possible objects. The inquirer sends a question (e.g., “Does it fly?) to the respondent, who answers “yes” or “no” by mentally focusing on one of two flashing LED lights attached to the monitor. The respondent is wearing an electroencephalography (EEG) helmet.

kurzweilai.net/first-brain-to-brain-telepathy-communication-via-the-internet

Game Theory Podcasts

A clinical psychology grad student and a literary analyst talk and laugh about games, then provide in-depth analysis over the process and content of video gaming. YB

gametheorypodcast.libsyn.com/webpage/2013/09

Can we record (and analyze) our dream images via fMRI?

ASAP Science: "experiment to record, analyze & predict dream images via fMRI sleeping subjects. check how the recorded, reconstructed images map to the predicted matching video image snippet pretty large-scale study, too" (KenL)

youtube.com/watch

Rats With Linked Brains Work Together

Scientists have engineered something close to a mind meld in a pair of lab rats, linking the animals' brains electronically so that they could work together to solve a puzzle.

livescience.com/27544-rats-with-linked-brains-work-together.html

RadioLab: The Elements: Lithium

Effects of microdoses/amounts of lithium on bipolar and other mental conditions (TK)

radiolab.org/story/lithium

Brain Imaging as Modern Phrenology

Do brain scan-based studies provide the causal mechanism information required to explain how people think, feel, and behave?

scitechconnect.elsevier.com/brain-imagining-modern-phrenology

First email brain-brain communication over Internet?

Using neurotech EEG brain-computer interfaces, we may eventually be able to bypass typing

bbc.com/future/story/20150106-the-first-brain-to-brain-emails

World's most detailed scans will reveal how brain works

Scientists say they have published the most detailed brain scans "the world has ever seen" as part of a project to understand how the organ works.

bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21660159

Neuroscience of music therapy

The Scientist 03.01.17 [Ken Lim]

mobile.the-scientist.com/article/48611/exploring-the-mechanisms-of-music-therapy

The Caines’ Brain/Mind Principles of Natural Learning

Human beings are living systems

webcache.googleusercontent.com/search

B&W to color: Here’s what enables your brain to “see” color

Science Alert, optical illusions, sensory perception [KL]

sciencealert.com/crazy-optical-illusion-makes-your-brain-see-colour-in-a-black-and-white-photo

Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought

Do the languages we speak shape the way we think?

library.fora.tv/2010/10/26/Lera_Boroditsky_How_Language_Shapes_Thought

Introducing a Brain-inspired Computer: IBM's TruNorth & DARPA SyNAPSE

IBM: Latest cognitive and neuro-chip computing (TK)

research.ibm.com/articles/brain-chip.shtml

Vision scientists demonstrate innovative learning method

NSF Project, Boston U, 2011 [TK]

nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp

Movement Facilitates Creative Thinking

A new Pictionary-based Stanford study by Saggar et al has shown that creative thinking is facilitated by activity in the cerebellum (the movement coordination part of the brain) and hampered by activity in the prefrontal cortex (the executive function part of the brain associated with planning, organization and management).

uclartsandhealing.net/viewannouncement.aspx

The Inside Story on ‘Your Changing Brain’

The human brain is constantly adapting as neural networks rewire themselves in response to new experiences, such as learning different skills or even recovering from trauma such as a stroke.

amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/news-posts/the-inside-story-on-your-changing-brain

(UC Berkeley) Scientists map brain’s thesaurus to help decode inner thoughts

What if a map of the brain could help us decode people’s inner thoughts? UC Berkeley scientists have taken a step in that direction by building a “semantic atlas” that shows in vivid colors and multiple dimensions how the human brain organizes language. The atlas identifies brain areas that respond to words that have similar meanings.

news.berkeley.edu/2016/04/27/brain-thesaurus

Smell, Hearing Genes Differ between Chimps and Humans

Genetically speaking, what separates humans from chimpanzees?

genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/2004/01/09/chimp.php

Forensic Psychology: CSI

An intro lecture about what psychology and crime have to do with one another

youtube.com/watch

Map of brain could teach machines to see like you

Wired 04.16 [TK]

wired.com/2016/04/map-brain-teach-machines-see-like

Intel's new neuromorphic chip based on human brain activity

MIT Tech Review [TK]

technologyreview.com/s/526506/neuromorphic-chips

(USC) Neuroscientist who'S building new kind of human memory

Wired Dec 2016: [TK]

wired.com/2016/12/neuroscientist-whos-building-better-memory-humans

Music, Art & Emotion & the Brain

UCTV: "where" is art in the brain

youtube.com/watch

How art can help develop your brain

From NPR "Here and Now" - podcast interview with Jonathan Fineberg's on his new book

hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/08/24/how-art-can-develop-your-brain

The Biology of our best and worst selves (Robert Sapolsky)

TED Talk on his new book <Behave> [JL]

ted.com/talks/robert_sapolsky_the_biology_of_our_best_and_worst_selves

Is the right-brain left-brain dominance theory a myth?

ThoughtCo.com [TK]

thoughtco.com/right-brain-left-brain-theory-art-2579156

Jung's Archetypes

Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung believed that archetypes are models of people, behaviors or personalities. Jung suggested that the psyche was composed of three components: the ego, the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious.

psychology.about.com/od/personalitydevelopment/tp/archetypes.htm

Seeing

A collection of exhibits on visual perception.

exploratorium.edu/seeing/about/collection.html

What happens in your brain when you hear with your eyes?

McGurk Effect, Medical Daily [Ken L]

medicaldaily.com/what-happens-your-brain-when-you-hear-your-eyes-neuroscientists-examine-mcgurk-411432

Chimps born to appreciate music

Until now, this was thought to be a universal human trait, but the new finding suggests it evolved in the ancestors of humans and modern apes.

news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8174000/8174534.stm

Wiring Monkey Brains Together Has a Point, Say Scientists

BRAINS WORK BETTER than computers. They’re faster, more creative, and (almost) always make sweeter party playlists. But if for some reason you really wanted a computer that could out-think a brain, maybe you could build one…from…brains. Multiple brains. Today, researchers at Duke University announced they have done nearly that, wiring animal brains together so they could collaborate on simple tasks. Network monkeys displayed motor skills, and networked rats performed computations. That’s right. They made a botnet out of brains.

wired.com/2015/07/science-can-learn-wiring-monkey-brains-together

The split brain: A tale of two halves

Since the 1960s, researchers have been scrutinizing a handful of patients who underwent a radical kind of brain surgery. The cohort has been a boon to neuroscience — but soon it will be gone.

nature.com/news/the-split-brain-a-tale-of-two-halves-1.10213

Chimps Born to Appreciate Music

BBC: Chimpanzees are biologically programmed to appreciate pleasant music. The discovery comes from experiments showing that an infant chimpanzee prefers to listen to consonant music over dissonant music. That suggests the apes are born with an innate appreciation of pleasant sounds, say scientists in the journal Primates.

news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8174000/8174534.stm

The BRAIN Initiative

US: NIH, other orgs (IEEE, NSF, HHMI) [TK]

braininitiative.org

Zika Virus Could One Day Help Treat a Deadly Form of Brain Cancer

Scientists see potential for the Zika Virus to help those with glioblastoma, a hard to treat brain cancer [SU]

huffingtonpost.com/entry/zika-virus-glioblastoma-treatment_us_59aee26ce4b0354e440d0792

SImple smell test may predict/diagnose early dimentia

Medical News Today 9/29/17 U Chicago [TK]

medicalnewstoday.com/articles/amp/319589

Musicophilia with Dr Oliver Sacks

from Cambridge Forum podcast -- all about the strange connections between music, memory, and the brain

youtube.com/watch

Illusion shows brain fills in peripheral vision

Neuroscience News: Dec 2016 [KL]

neurosciencenews.com/peripheral-vision-brain-illusion-5713

DNA: Comparing humans and chimps

Human and chimp DNA is so similar because the two species are so closely related. Humans, chimps and bonobos descended from a single ancestor species that lived six or seven million years ago. As humans and chimps gradually evolved from a common ancestor, their DNA, passed from generation to generation, changed too. In fact, many of these DNA changes led to differences between human and chimp appearance and behavior.

amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent-exhibitions/human-origins-and-cultural-halls/anne-and-bernard-spitzer-hall-of-human-origins/understanding-our-past/dna-comparing-humans-and-chimps

A new theory about how consciousness evolved

The Atlantic (6/5/16): Michael Graziano; one of our most important biological traits, consciousness, is rarely studied in the context of evolution. Theories of consciousness come from religion, from philosophy, from cognitive science, but not so much from evolutionary biology. Maybe that’s why so few theories have been able to tackle basic questions such as: What is the adaptive value of consciousness? When did it evolve and what animals have it? (YK)

theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/how-consciousness-evolved/485558

The Teenage Brain with Dr. Frances Jensen (conversation with Adam Savage)

SF City Arts and Lectures, May 15, 2017 [TK]

cityarts.net/event/the-teenage-brain

Lying and the brain

Science behind lying : National Geographic: TK

nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/lying-hoax-false-fibs-science

Scientists manipulate brain cells with smartphone

Interesting Engineering: A novel invention has the capacity to control neural circuits using a tiny brain implant controlled by a smartphone [TK]

interestingengineering.com/scientists-manipulate-brain-cells-with-smartphone

How to plug in your brain (electrical stimulation)

Smithsonian (thanks EV-B)

smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-to-plug-in-your-brain-180958775

Oliver Sacks, M.D. - Home Page

One of our greatest medical neurolgist/neuroscientist story telliers, polymath and Renaissance andthinkers, and most prolific authors ("The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," "Awakenings"; "Musicophelia," "Th Mind's Eye," etc.

oliversacks.com

Are multivitamins a waste of money?

Editorial in medical journal says yes

cnn.com/2013/12/16/health/multivitamins-studies/index.html

“Pacemaker” for the brain WAND

UC Berkeley News 12.31.18 - Parkinson’s, Epilepsy,

news.berkeley.edu/2018/12/31/wireless-pacemaker-for-the-brain-could-be-new-standard-treatment-for-neurological-disorders

Apes know what others believe: Frans B. M. de Waal

Science (Oct 2016: Theory of Mind, evolution [KL]

science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6308/39

12 things scientists have discovered about people who listen to (play?) music

Music and brain, perception, memory, learning, creativity (TK, KL)

mic.com/articles/106100/12-amazing-things-scientists-discovered-about-music-this-year

Joshua Walters: on being just crazy enough

What's the right balance between medicating craziness away and riding the manic edge of creativity and drive?

ted.com/talks/joshua_walters_on_being_just_crazy_enough

Handwork- and Mind

To The Best of Our Knowledge (ttbook.org): embedded cognition & evolution of human hands to mind; prehension (TK)

ttbook.org/book/handwork

Mantis shrimp have the world's best eyes—but why?

As humans, we experience an amazing world of colour, but what can other animals see? Some see much more than us, but how they use this vision is largely unknown: Phys.org (SEPTEMBER 4, 2013) [AMZ]

phys.org/news/2013-09-mantis-shrimp-world-eyesbut.html

You'll Be Surprised These 18 'Facts' About the Brain and Learning are Actually Myths

Inc.com @EricCMack: Based on study published in Frontiers of Psychology 8/10/17 [KL]

inc.com/eric-mack/youll-be-surprised-that-these-18-facts-about-the-b.html

Switched on: book about emotional awakening via electro-magnetic stimulation of brain

NPR Fresh Air April 21 2026: TMS, ECT, Aspergers, Autism, emotions

npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/04/21/475112703/electric-currents-and-an-emotional-awakening-for-one-man-with-autism

Two Studies Tie Repeat Expansions to Rare, Progressive Neurodegenerative Disease

CGG repeat expansion in the 5'UTR of the NOTCH2NLC gene was identified in individuals afflicted with Neuronal intranuclear inclusion Disease(NIID), a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by eosinophilic hyaline intranuclear inclusions in neuronal and somatic cells.

genomeweb.com/sequencing/two-studies-tie-repeat-expansions-rare-progressive-neurodegenerative-disease

Amy Cuddy (Harvard B-School): Your body language shapes who you are

TED talk (over 30 million views): body language can affect mind & mood

ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are

A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts ..no really :-)

TED Talk: Miguel Nicoles: Can we use our brains to directly control machines -- without requiring a body as the middleman? Miguel Nicolelis talks through an astonishing experiment, in which a clever monkey in the US learns to control a monkey avatar, and then a robot arm in Japan, purely with its thoughts. The research has big implications

youtube.com/watch

The reading brain in the age of digital/online screen reading

ScienceFriday.com 11/16/18

sciencefriday.com/articles/how-do-we-read-differently-with-screens

Hi-tech scans reveal brain of human 'ancestor'

Researchers were able to reconstruct a virtual brain cast of the humanlike creature

bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14822438

Brain-computer interface could help people with severe paralysis

Brown University’s BrainGate won the $1-million Moshe Mirilashvili Memorial Fund B.R.A.I.N. Prize which was presented by Israeli President Shimon Peres in Tel Aviv Oct. 15, 2013.

news.brown.edu/articles/2013/10/brain

How the Brain Keeps Time

Researchers at MIT found that the brain times activity, and directs attention towards tasks, by altering the rate at which neurons travel. (DT)

news.mit.edu/2017/networks-neurons-stretch-compress-control-timing-1204

Changes in Brain Regions May Explain Why Some Prefer Certainty and Order [SU]

Researches at UCLA have linked certain parts of the brain, specifically the orbitofrontal cortex and basolateral amygdala, to how likely certain people are to take risks and make decisions.

neurosciencenews.com/order-certinty-orbiotofrontal-cortex-7043

Mind Blowing Optical Illusions

35 Insane Optical Illusions That Will Make You Question Your Sanity

distractify.com/mind-blowing-optical-illusions-1197825445.html

The blast of sound that could help beat depression

by stimulating cells governing mood

dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2397750/The-blast-sound-help-beat-depression-stimulating-cells-governing-mood.html

Video game may help predict dementia

CNN, NPR TheTakeAway (5/12/16)

cnn.com/2016/05/04/health/dementia-game-sea-hero-quest

Name that tune: Brain takes only 100-300 msecs to recognize a familiar tune

Neuroscience News [KLim]

neurosciencenews.com/music-recognition-15146

What is synesthesia?

A condition in which one sense (for example, hearing) is simultaneously perceived as if by one or more additional senses such as sight.

faculty.washington.edu/chudler/syne.html

New optical method for functional brain imaging (fNIRS)

Medgadget 082219 [TK]

medgadget.com/2019/08/new-optical-methods-developed-for-functional-brain-imaging.html

Yet Another reason to exercise: Exercise and Creativity

This is a BigThink post by NYU neuroscientist, Dr. Wendy Suzuki, re. how exercise can enhance creative thinking and creativity.

bigthink.com/videos/wendy-suzuki-on-can-exercise-enhance-creativity

Neuroscience Says Your Brain Is Wired to Procrastinate

Article by Jeff Haden about ways your mind procrastinates (and how to stop doing it) - [PJ]

inc.com/jeff-haden/neuroscience-says-your-brain-is-wired-to-procrastinate-4-simple-ways-to-stop-putting-off-important-things-willpower-not-required.html

The Hippies Were Right--It's All About Vibrations, Man!: A New Theory of Consciousness

Scientific American (Education: Observations) Dec. 2018 [TK]

blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-hippies-were-right-its-all-about-vibrations-man

Game Theory: How Assassin's Creed Predicted the Future of Science

Is it possible to pass memories down between generations as depicted in Assassin's Creed?

youtube.com/watch

An Introduction to Mindfulness (video)

From YouTube: Mindfulnet (AG)

youtube.com/watch

Master monkey's brain controls sedated 'avatar'

The brain of one monkey has been used to control the movements of another, "avatar", monkey, US scientists report.

bbc.com/news/health-26224813

Mapping the Sounds of the City: Universities Receive Grant to Create Sonic Maps

For Citygram, researchers will measure acoustic energy and visually depict the results as real-time overlays on maps of their locations.

calarts.edu/news/2013-apr-4/mapping-sounds-city-california-institute-arts-and-new-york-university-receive-grant-

Sense of smell in seniors and risks of premature death

NHS UK also US sources [TK]

nhs.uk/news/older-people/poor-sense-smell-elderly-linked-higher-risk-dying

Artist Creates Portraits From People's DNA. Scientists Say 'That's Impossible'

Heather Dewey-Hagborg, a doctoral student in information art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., was collecting stray hair and cigarette butts that people left behind and extracting DNA from them. Then she was creating portraits of the people who had left their genetic information behind.

forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/05/31/turning-found-dna-into-portraits-what-an-imagination

Michael Torke: seeing colors when listening to music (Bright Blue Music)

Synthesthesia [TK]

thelistenersclub.com/2012/01/31/the-listeners-club-hearing-colors-in-the-music-of-michael-torke

World According to Sound (podcast): what does editing a Wikipedia article sound like?

Podcast, sound, collaboration, language

theworldaccordingtosound.org

People who work together have synchronized brain waves

LA Times | Science Now

latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-group-brainwaves-20170428-story.html

Your Brain on Politics: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Liberals and Conservatives

Can neuroscience provide evidence for a liberal and conservative thinking style?

blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/09/07/your-brain-on-politics-the-cognitive-neuroscience-of-liberals-and-conservatives

Sound Health: power of music & mental/physical health

NIH, Kennedy Center

cms.kennedy-center.org/series/sound-health-home/sound-health

Save The Chimps

Test your "Chimp IQ"!

salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/50957/p/salsa/web/questionnaire/public

Take part in the Great Brain Experiment

Got a smartphone? Free app available for iPhone and Android

bigthink.com/neurobonkers/got-a-smartphone-take-part-in-the-great-brain-experiment

Renee Fleming NIH Kennedy Center Sound Health initiative on music and the brain

YouTube video [TK]

youtube.com/watch

First steps toward personal Memory creator

NY Times

mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/health/memory-dementia-brain-implants.html

How good are your eyes at seeing color?

Digg 061618 [TK]

gizmodo.com/these-tests-will-tell-you-just-how-good-your-eyes-are-a-1826868420

Sculpting brain waves

Smithsonian Dec 2018

smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-sculptor-imagines-brain-waves-in-3d-180970953

Your 21st Century Brain

New drugs are being developed that could someday eliminate pain, reduce the need for sleep, control appetite and obesity, improve memory, increase creativity, and prevent aging.

amnh.org/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/brain-the-inside-story/your-21st-century-brain

Building a Brain in the Lab

Scientific American (12/20/16): Scientists copy nature's most complex organ in the hope of solving the mysteries of brain disorders, from autism to Alzheimer's [TK]

scientificamerican.com/article/building-a-brain-in-the-lab

How Simone Biles keeps her balance: neuroscience of balance & gymnastics

From Zuckerman Institute, Columbia U: [KLim]

zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/news/inside-mind-athlete-how-simone-biles-keeps-her-balance

How to control someone else's arm with your brain

TED Talk: Greg Gage neuroscientist and TED Senior Fellow uses a simple, inexpensive DIY kit to take away the free will of an audience member.

ted.com/talks/greg_gage_how_to_control_someone_else_s_arm_with_your_brain

Science: Food for thought: Does Sound Affect the Way we Taste

Research suggests that sound is the “forgotten sense” when it comes to how we perceive flavors ( T.L)

sciencefriday.com/articles/does-sound-affect-the-way-we-taste

Neuroaesthetics: International Arts + Mind Lab (Johns Hopkins U)

IAM Lab is pioneering impact-based thinking, an outside-in approach to health, well-being and learning [TMK 1120]

artsandmindlab.org

The Brain has more than one multi-tasking mode

ArsTechnica.com: split brain, hemispheric processing [AW], [TK]

arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/the-brain-has-more-than-one-multitasking-mode

Scientists have grown mini brains containing Neanderthal DNA

CNN: Forming Brain Tissues from Human Cells that Contain Neanderthal DNA, giving Further Insight into how Humans are Connected to Neanderthals (AR)

cnn.com/2020/06/18/world/brain-organoids-neanderthal-dna-scn-trnd/index.html

Brain computer interfaces to create art

BCI EEG, neurofeedback [TK]

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2326263X.2015.1100514

Robots and vision: Franklin Institute Philadelphia

teacher information packet for students [TK]

fi.edu/sites/default/files/EducatorGuide_RobotRevolution_Exhibit_edguide-robot-revolution.pdf

What’s in Store For Your 21st Century Brain?

Mechanical devices now connect to the brain to restore lost senses like hearing and sight. What if similar technologies could end addiction, improve memory, cure a headache, or lift one’s mood?

amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/news-posts/what-s-in-store-for-your-21st-century-brain

Human 2.0: How to Build a Centaur & why it's going to change the world (Amy Kruse, PhD, Chief Science Officer, Platypus Institute)

Stanford MediaX Conference on AI and Human Collaboration [TK]

mediax.stanford.edu/page/amy-kruse-human-ai

Eye movements help retrieve memories

Technology Networks

technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/our-eye-movements-help-us-retrieve-memories-331694

Can Science Illuminate our Inner Dark Matter?

Neither introspection nor brain scans can reveal our deepest thoughts. Scientific American, J Hogan 2.26.21 [TK]

scientificamerican.com/article/can-science-illuminate-our-inner-dark-matter

Everything you wanted to know about Neuralink

@Elon Musk Brain-Computer/AI Interfaces [TK]

yahoo.com/entertainment/everything-know-neuralink-elon-musks-103000152.html

Genetic Body/ Brain Connection Identified in Genomic Region linked to Autism

Researchers have found a direct link between mutations in two genes and disorders of the brain, such as autism disorders, intellectual disabilities, and seizures, and obesity. [SU]

neurosciencenews.com/body-brain-genetics-autism-7682

Machine Vision Algorithm Chooses the Most Creative Paintings in History

Picking the most creative paintings is a network problem akin to finding super spreaders of disease. That’s allowed a machine to pick out the most creative paintings in history.

technologyreview.com/view/538281/machine-vision-algorithm-chooses-the-most-creative-paintings-in-history

Memory and Forgetting

This hour of Radiolab, a look behind the curtain of how memories are made...and forgotten.

radiolab.org/story/91569-memory-and-forgetting

Why Music Makes Our Brain Sing

So why does a mere sequence of sounds hold such potentially enormous intrinsic value?

nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/why-music-makes-our-brain-sing.html

One museum gives “voice” to former mental illness patients

Smithsonian, Indiana Museum of Medical History [TK]

smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-one-museum-giving-voice-former-mental-health-patients-180972303

Researchers find abstract art evokes a more abstract mindset than representational art

Medical Xpress 08.04.20 [TK]

medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-abstract-art-evokes-mindset-representational.html

Deep Neural Networks Help to Explain Living Brains (computational neuroscience)

Quanta (0121): Deep neural networks, often criticized as “black boxes,” are helping neuroscientists understand the organization of living brains. @Yamins & DiCarlo, Stanford

quantamagazine.org/deep-neural-networks-help-to-explain-living-brains-20201028

Amazon Tribes and Collective Dreams

In the jungles of the Amazon live tribes to whom everyday reality is the dream. Hallucinations and dreams are the "real" reality, and the role of dreaming is thus very different from what it is in the West. There is a continuity between dreaming and waking. Dreaming is not just something that goes on during sleep. Our reporter, Wynn Free, spoke with Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, who has studied Amazon dreaming at first hand.

spiritofmaat.com/archive/may3/schlitz.htm