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Goal-directed Cognition - Embodied Cognition
I just stumbled across a great article on Boston.com about "Embodied Cognition". It describes how we often perform complex cognitive tasks better if we are allowed to move around. This reminded me a lot of an article cal...[more]
spontaneity   spontaneous behavior   cognition   spontaneous activity   
Posted on Tuesday 12 February 2008 - 07:56:24

The importance of being active
Yesterday, I put up the HTML version of my latest publication on brembs.net, an invited review for a special issue in the Journal of Neurogenetics, commemorating the retirement of my thesis advisor Martin Heisenberg. The...[more]
spontaneity   paper   brembs.net   
Posted on Thursday 08 January 2009 - 11:11:43

...and now for some not so random video on the science of spontaneity
This is talk 11 (of 31) at the Conference on Brain Network Dynamics held at the University of California at Berkeley on January 26-27, 2007. Speaker is Marcus E. Raichle, Departments of Radiology, Neurology, and Anatomy ...[more]
spontaneous brain activity   spontaneity   brain   fMRI   
Posted on Friday 11 January 2008 - 04:26:39

How the brain is and isn't like a muscle
ResearchBlogging.orgUse it or lose it, they say. The saying holds not only for muscle fitness, but also for the brain. The Romans already knew that 'mens sana in corpore sano' and today we know that both physical and mental fitness, exercis...[more]
brain   default network   spontaneity   behavior   
Posted on Thursday 20 August 2009 - 13:20:45

I just talked 3.5h to Bob Doyle on the phone!
I've just hung up the phone and need to write a short note to mark the occasion. Bob Doyle had contacted my PhD supervisor Martin Heisenberg about his Nature article on free will with a blog post on the article. Heisenbe...[more]
doyle   semantic web   collaboration system   free will   spontaneity   heisenberg   
Posted on Wednesday 24 June 2009 - 15:56:04

How brains generate variable behavior
ResearchBlogging.org Animals constantly have to adapt to varying environmental conditions, explore new situations and figure out new strategies to catch prey or avoid predators. On the other hand, they need to be able to behave consistently...[more]
Aplysia   behavior   SfN   meeting   variability   spontaneity   
Posted on Sunday 18 October 2009 - 14:38:02

...and now for some rest
Daniel Margulies gave a talk last night entitled "Mapping neuroanatomy with resting-state functional connectivity fMRI". This is the video he showed after his presentation:


This is the abstract of his talk:...[more]
fMRI   default network   resting-state   brain activity   spontaneous activity   spontaneity   
Posted on Friday 22 January 2010 - 13:12:58

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