Parts of the brain involved in form recognition

Researchers indicate that the pre-frontal and parietal areas may come into play when naming objects seen from an unusual point of view. Tests were conducted with 2 levels of naming complexity by 2 kinds of stimuli, that is objects viewed from a conventional viewpoint and when seen from an unconventional viewpoint with subjects aged between 20 – 80 years. Test subjects showed normal recognition when shown conventional viewpoints of an object, but the older subjects showed a marked difference when it came to identifying unconventional viewpoints. There seems to be a marked deterioration in recognition with aging. Read more about it here.

Psychology: Past, Present, and Promise

A video by the Annenberg foundation on psychology. Phillip Zimbardo attempts to explain if the mind is trained by nature or nurture.

and from the same series…

Discovering Psychology’s – The Behaving Brain. Phillip Zimbardo explains the structure of the brain and it’s associated functions.

How the mind edits what we see

A video featuring Susan Greenfield as she explains how the brain edits and manipulates information and offers the final edited view as ‘perception’. I couldn’t embed it, so go here to see it.

Selective Attention – An update

While selective attention has long been studied about in psychology, not much was known about it’s associated neural activity. Now scientists at the university of Helsinki claim to have identified activity in the auditory cortex that corresponds to the subject’s signals. Read more about it here. and some more… here.

Free Will – The Storyteller Video

An explanation of how free will as such does not exist. We are offered a perceived image which we feel we are deciding upon. More about this in a previous post here…

Go here to see a video (couldn’t embed it) on free will, the one below makes more sense after you’ve seen it.

Synesthesia – Moulding Song Video

Ramachandran had pointed out that we are all synesthetes in that we cross wire our perceptions to create meaning. I found this example of an accapello singer who literally moulds the song as he sings it.

Perception – The reality beyond matter

What is perception really? This sensationalist, yet thought provoking video tells it all.

Vilanayur Ramachandran on the mind

Vilanayur Ramachandran speaks on phantom limbs and Synesthesia

Mind: Oxford Journals

The venerable Mind from Oxford. I found a couple of ancient issues at Krishna’s Bookstore, Wookworm on MG road. One of them had the article feelings which influenced so many writers to write on emotion and will.

They also have a similar line called brain, on neurology.

Looking for God in the Brain

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Researchers are unearthing the roots of religious feeling in the neural commotion that accompanies the spiritual epiphanies of nuns, Buddhists and other people of faith

By David Biello / Read More