Scientific American Special - Secrets of The Mind - USA (2022-Winter)
SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM | 51 a node of Ranvier becomes squeezed more tightly by the adjoining myelin segments, an electrical impu ...
52 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | SPECIAL EDITION | WINTER 2022 R. Douglas Fields/National Institutes of Health and NICHD SIGNAL TRANSM ...
SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM | 53 amplifiers to detect neural impulses and measure their speed of transmission, we found that after th ...
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SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM | 55 Illustration by Richard Borge Neural circuits that track our whereabouts in space and time may also ...
56 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | SPECIAL EDITION | WINTER 2022 W e are often told that there are no shortcuts in life. But the brain—e ...
SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM | 57 locate oneself in space and determine distance and direction. These navigational tools are crucial f ...
58 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | SPECIAL EDITION | WINTER 2022 From observing Molaison, neuroscientists discerned that the hippo campu ...
SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM | 59 PEOPLE MAPS the progression from the physical to the abstract carries over into the way the brain re ...
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SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM | 61 Brain regions that process faces reveal deep insights into the neural mechanisms of vision By Doris ...
62 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | SPECIAL EDITION | WINTER 2022 Later, as an undergraduate at the California Institute of Technology, I ...
SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM | 63 tive for the faces of familiar people— responding, say, only to Jennifer Aniston. Contrary to my exp ...
64 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | SPECIAL EDITION | WINTER 2022 changes. The experiment thus confirmed that face cells use contrast rel ...
SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM | 65 is to overcome this impediment. Given the great sensitivity of cells in face patches to changes in f ...
66 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | SPECIAL EDITION | WINTER 2022 the shape of the face. From these varied shapes, we cal- culated an ave ...
SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM | 67 would cause the cell to fire in exactly the same way. And this, in turn, would suggest cells in face ...
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SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM | 69 R ADIC AL CHANGE Uncertainty in the world threatens our sense of self. To cope, people embrace popul ...
70 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | SPECIAL EDITION | WINTER 2022 Pyrosky/Getty Images People need to have a firm sense of identity and o ...
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