Neuroscience
As you might have gathered, my brain is taking a rest from blogging after the excitement of The Neurocritic's tenth anniversary. Regular blogging will resume shortly.
Thank you for your patience.
Fig. 1 (Buckner, 2013). The brain's default network. The default network was discovered serendipitously when experimenters using neuroimaging began examining brain regions active in the passive control conditions of their experiments. The image shows brain regions more active in passive tasks as contrast to a wide range of simple, active task conditions.6
Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2013 Sep; 15(3): 351–358.
- Resisting A Resting State
The most forceful (and the only one published, it seems) objection to the concept of a "default mode" of processing in the human brain has been articulated by Alexa Morcom and Paul Fletcher at Cambridge. The brain's "default mode" or "resting state"...
- Daydreaming And Thought-sampling
OK, is there anything new in the daydreaming article in Science? Fig. 2. Graphs depict regions that exhibited a significant positive relation [with a propensity to daydream], r(14) > 0.50, P < .05 (A) Bilateral mPFC; (B) Bilateral precuneus and posterior...
- Default Mode Or Detritus?
Should we discard the concept of a "Resting State" of the brain? NO: ["default mode" aka daydreaming] Malia F. Mason, Michael I. Norton, John D. Van Horn, Daniel M. Wegner, Scott T. Grafton, C. Neil Macrae (2007). Wandering Minds: The Default Network...
- Are You Conscious Of Your Precuneus?
No, of course not. The question really is, does your precuneus make you conscious? In The Neurocritic's last entry on hypnosis and consciousness, Faymonville et al. (in press) raised the possibility that the precuneus "...is part of the critical neural...
- Guest Lecturer On Network Communication In Behavior And Disease!
Dr. Adrian Guggisberg University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland Guest Lecturer: Network communication in behavior and disease Wednesday, September 5 12:00 pm-1:30 pm BPS 1142 Abstract: The brain is a network of massively interconnected processing elements....
Neuroscience
The Brain at Rest
As you might have gathered, my brain is taking a rest from blogging after the excitement of The Neurocritic's tenth anniversary. Regular blogging will resume shortly.
Thank you for your patience.
Fig. 1 (Buckner, 2013). The brain's default network. The default network was discovered serendipitously when experimenters using neuroimaging began examining brain regions active in the passive control conditions of their experiments. The image shows brain regions more active in passive tasks as contrast to a wide range of simple, active task conditions.6
Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2013 Sep; 15(3): 351–358.
- Resisting A Resting State
The most forceful (and the only one published, it seems) objection to the concept of a "default mode" of processing in the human brain has been articulated by Alexa Morcom and Paul Fletcher at Cambridge. The brain's "default mode" or "resting state"...
- Daydreaming And Thought-sampling
OK, is there anything new in the daydreaming article in Science? Fig. 2. Graphs depict regions that exhibited a significant positive relation [with a propensity to daydream], r(14) > 0.50, P < .05 (A) Bilateral mPFC; (B) Bilateral precuneus and posterior...
- Default Mode Or Detritus?
Should we discard the concept of a "Resting State" of the brain? NO: ["default mode" aka daydreaming] Malia F. Mason, Michael I. Norton, John D. Van Horn, Daniel M. Wegner, Scott T. Grafton, C. Neil Macrae (2007). Wandering Minds: The Default Network...
- Are You Conscious Of Your Precuneus?
No, of course not. The question really is, does your precuneus make you conscious? In The Neurocritic's last entry on hypnosis and consciousness, Faymonville et al. (in press) raised the possibility that the precuneus "...is part of the critical neural...
- Guest Lecturer On Network Communication In Behavior And Disease!
Dr. Adrian Guggisberg University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland Guest Lecturer: Network communication in behavior and disease Wednesday, September 5 12:00 pm-1:30 pm BPS 1142 Abstract: The brain is a network of massively interconnected processing elements....