Technology vs. the Brain From the invention of the light bulb by Thomas Edison to the long term battle between Apple and Microsoft‚ technology has been growing. With each new achievement or creation‚ the impact of the devices becomes more and more evident. There is a lot of controversy in terms of the impacts and whether the effects are positive or negative and to what extent technology actually reaches. The bottom line is that without a doubt technology is a continuously evolving system that impacts
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Student Article Analysis Routes to Remembering: the Brains Behind Superior Memory The focus of this experimental study was to determine what causes select individuals to have superior memory capabilities when compared to the others of the general population. To determine what caused this superior memory‚ the used three different methods of experimentation to test three different theories. Using these methods they tested whether superior memorizers and control subjects
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Concussion‚ a mild traumatic brain injury‚ it may leave you temporarily unconscious and an aftereffect that will leave you confused and incapacity. These head injuries can be caused by violent blows to the head or can also be described as a violent shaking of the head or body. Since studies on head injuries have increased over the past years there has been a lot of attention on concussions‚ how they can be prevented and the affect that it has on the brain. The attention has been so high that the
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Brain Death – An Islamic Perspective Prof. Ibrahim B. Syed President Islamic Research Foundation International‚ Inc. Louisville‚ Kentucky E-Mail: President@irfi.org Website: WWW.IRFI.ORG Terri Schiavo‚ a white female of Roman Catholic faith was born on 3rd December 1963 in Philadelphia‚ PA. She married Michael on 10-11-84. Terri Schiavo entered a vegetative state in 1990 after adopting an "iced tea diet" (related to her bulimia)‚ resulting in a disastrous potassium deficiency that caused
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How does Carruthers define the identity thesis? 1. The identity theory says that mental states are identical to brain states. The identity theory of mind holds that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain. 2. Carruther explores that some mental states are the causes of some physical events. However‚ the law of Science states that things which cause physical events can be none other than physical events. 3. For example‚ if a hand movement is an outcome
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Question 1 Given what we know about localization of function in the human brain‚ is it scientifically legitimate to categorize people as left-brained or right-brained? Hemispheric lateralization‚ as discovered by Roger W. Sperry (1965)‚ ascribes to the specialization of one cerebral hemisphere or the other in controlling specific functions (Passer‚ Smith‚ Holt‚ Bremner‚ Sutherland & Vliek‚ 2009). In recent years‚ there appears to be a growing phenomenon in the generalization
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1 Causes of Brain Drain 3 Global Statistics of brain drain 4 Brain Gain 5 Brain Circulation 5 Brain Waste 6 Reverse Brain Drain
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the object. When testing the phenomenon‚ the brain and optic chiasm was split. Therefore‚ the patient was only able to transfer visual information from the left eye to the left brain‚ promoting the function of the corresponding hand and vice versa. References Gazzaniga‚ M. (2005). Forty-five years of split-brain research and still going strong. Nature Reviews Neuroscience‚ 6(8)‚ 653–659. doi: 10.1038/nrn1723. Gazzaniga‚ M. (1967). The split brain in man. Scientific American‚ 217(2)‚ 24-29. doi:
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The Impacts of Brain Drain on Developing Countries Brain drain‚ which is the action of having highly skilled and educated people leaving their country to work abroad‚ has become one of the developing countries concern. Brain drain is also referred to as human capital flight. More and more third world science and technology educated people are heading for more prosperous countries seeking higher wages and better working conditions. This has of course serious concequences on the sending countries
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g Editorial Multivariate decoding and brain reading: Introduction to the special issue a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t In recent years‚ the scope of neuroimaging research has been substantially extended by multivariate decoding methodology. Decoding techniques allow us to address a number of important questions that are frequently neglected in more conventional analyses. They allow us to focus on storage of “mental content” in brain regions‚ rather than on overall levels of
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