This is about a study that showed people to be more likely to want to listen to speech/someone asking them for a cigarette with their right ear, and that when they were asked to their right ear, they were more likely to give a cigarette. And this has been found many times previously to have the same result.
Part of this is cut off. Subjects in this were shown a computer screen with pictures and tried to put them in the same places the next day. The half who heard sounds that correspond to the pictures during sleep did better at putting the pictures back in their places.
This is just another plasticity study showing that blindness affects size of parts of the brain involved with vision and hearing.
Thought patterns of the past and future are really similar. Sounds about right.
Gamma waves and how they might affect thought.
So I thought I should add some about drugs, because those are usually lots of fun. This one is about cocaine making bees do 'the honey bee dance' more exaggeratedly, accept worse quality food so others can have better food, and just generally be more 'altruistic' to one another.
"Activation of the glutamate receptor blocks hallucinogen-specific signaling and changes behavioral responses in mice."
Salvia peaks 'nearly 10 times faster than cocaine.'
Sorry this is so much, I hope it isn't.
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ReplyDeleteA bit much Sean, but some interesting links.
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