Cognitive Science and the New Testament A New Approach to Early Christian Research

governed by natural selection, some other evolutionary process (drift, migra- tion and so on), or Sperberian attraction.^13 In o ...

3 The Human Brain A Guided Tour In this chapter, I would like to invite you to a guided tour through the human brain. Atfirst si ...

These questions can be answered in many different ways and it is not the task of this chapter to deal with these issues at great ...

believe that the function of the brain is to cool blood, or that an immaterial thing performs cognition outside the brain, we ca ...

proteins (with the help of ribosomes). What make the morphology of neurons specific are the extensions that proceed from the cel ...

ions (electrically charged atoms and molecules) across the cell membrane, a wall that bounds the whole cell and contains gates t ...

effect is not always straightforward. For example, the amount of serotonin released and recycled (serotonin turnover) predicts t ...

relationships. At a more general level, it has been suggested that the right hemisphere pays attention to detail whereas the lef ...

2016, pp. 371–9). For example, the amygdala sends alert signals to the hypothalamus that controls automatic responses to fear. T ...

(Mather, 2006, pp. 55–62). Parts of the body that contain many sensory neurons, such as the face and the hands, also cover a lar ...

Further specialization of the respective areas of the right and left hemispheres in these tasks has also been suggested. The rig ...

only when they detect predators in the environment. Animals often repro- duce at an older age when environmental resources are s ...

and the differences between them can be understood systematically, we can surmise that a similar research project can be applied ...

extreme values: for example, there are many more extremely talented women than men when it comes to linguistic abilities and man ...

4. Memory and Transmission 4.1 MEMORY IN THE BRAIN The single most well-known person in the history of the neuroscientific study ...

memory. For example, H.M. was not able to remember what happened to him justfifteen minutes ago due to a deficiency in encoding ...

learning process, by administering mild electric shocks to the siphon skin of the sea-hare, led to the identification of so-call ...

4.2 CHUNKS OF INFORMATION If you try to memorize a phone number, you will quickly realize that the amount of information you can ...

this limit: you can break down the number into shorter sequences of digits, possibly relying on some pattern of repetition, incr ...

overcoming the bottleneck-effect of working memory. Further, alliteration can be the performer’s friend when reproducing a list ...