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Hacking the Mind
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Tagged 2011, book, hearing, illusion, mind hacks, perception, vision
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Good Ideas and Notebooks
Where Good Ideas Come From On the flight back from Austria to Montreal I’ve read Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From. I really like his work – i’ve read Mind Wide Open and Emergence before – because he manages …
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Tagged 2011, book, Charles Darwin, commonplace books, ideas, notebooks, Steven Johnson
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Geheimnisse einer Seele and Thinking Dreams
Psychoanalysis is neuroplastic therapy, the inhibitory task of the prefrontal cortex and why dreams are representations of abstract ideas.
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Tagged 2010, book, brain, dreams, neuroplasticity, Norman Doidge, prefrontal cortex, psychoanalysis, rem
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Cross-Talking, Colored Grapheme and Mental Chess
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Tagged 2010, book, brain, chess, neuroplasticity, Norman Doidge, senses, super-humans, synesthesia
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Neuroplasticity, Supersenses and Reciting Poems
The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge tells the story of the shift from Localizationism – the belief that the brain’s structure is hardwired and doesn’t change after the early development stage – to Neuroplasticity – the ability of the human brain to rewire and change itself according to experiences.
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Tagged 2010, book, brain, neuroplasticity, Norman Doidge, Paul Bach-y-Rita, poems, senses, sensory substitution
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Steven Strogatz – SYNC
Steven Strogatz is a professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University. I own two of his books, Sync (2003) and Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (1994), read some of his papers Exploring complex networks (Nature, 2001), watch him on TED and …
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Tagged 2010, book, circadian rhythm, complex system, oscillators, self-organization, Steven Strogatz, synchronization
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