FoundationalConceptsNeuroscience

Does each hemisphere experience a separate awareness of “what it is like to be?” The neural conditions sufficient for manifestat ...

with all the multitudinous axonal and dendritic fibers and astrocytic processes, is called neuropil (Greek pilos = hair). When l ...

All these cells and sub-cellular structures are replete with flowing charged particles and are generating electromagnetic fields ...

dynamic activity of large numbers of neurons, and the language of mathematics is used to model and describe the complexities of ...

of stability, in metastable states poised to react to perturbations from incoming signals and make transitions from one state of ...

movement), which impacts (via efference copy and sensory feedback) global brain states, which effects specific neural circuits, ...

CHAPTER 1 9 Memory Pi (Greek letter m) is defined as the ratio, for any circle, of the circumference to the diameter (Fig. 19.1) ...

and computers set to work on these formulas have, as of this writing, calculated to ten trillion (1013) decimal places! Enter hu ...

paired performance at this point. This is truly extraordinary memory—but really, even ordinary memory is amazing. The etymologic ...

ception is similar to something we have smelled, seen, heard, tasted, or touched before. A famous book about extraordinary memor ...

—wild stuff! In the simplest analysis, whatever is happening with memory can be deconstructed into two major components: working ...

nervous system. Newly stored memories in LTM are initially frail and may be readily disrupted. It is often easier to remember th ...

Amnesia may be associated with various kinds of physical injury to the brain: cellular damage from stroke or seizure, brain tumo ...

A number of drugs are related to memory impairment during periods of use. Most famous are perhaps the sedative-hypnotics. Alcoho ...

or unconscious, meaning never aware at all.) Other drugs known to be associated with memory impairment include cannabis (marijua ...

Are memories stored in some particular part of the brain? This question was addressed by Karl Lashley (1890-1958) early in the t ...

who have been studied in attempts to elucidate brain mechanisms of memory, by far the most famous is the patient H.M. This patie ...

He could engage in conversation and remember from one moment to the next the flow of dialogue. He could recall lists of numbers ...

a newspaper article and then forget everything within seconds. He would meet and have conversations with his doctors and other p ...

recognize the experimenters, who were the same people working with him day after day. But his performance on these tasks continu ...