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spontaneity
| 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 |
| The will and its freedom: biological evidence from invertebrates |
 A few weeks ago, Lars Chittka invited me to write an article "about free will in insects" for a Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences) Special Feature on 'Information processing in miniature brains' th...[more] |
| free will spontaneity behavior invertebrates proceedings heisenberg doyle |
| Posted on Friday 23 July 2010 - 10:53:45 |
| Draft of article on free will online |
| After much to little time spent writing, a first draft of the article for the Proceedings of the Royal Society is online. There was no way to get this article in the sort of shape I had initially planned, but given the d...[more] |
| free will spontaneity behavior invertebrates proceedings |
| Posted on Thursday 26 August 2010 - 01:42:12 |
| How the brain is and isn't like a muscle |
| Use 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 |
| Spontaneous activity in the isolated leech nervous system |
| As reported earlier, I've now been working for a couple of days in Bill Kristan's lab at UCSD in La Jolla, California. The first few days I was practicing the dissection of the leech nervous system. I need to take the en...[more] |
| leech Kristan spontaneity experiments behavior isolated nervous system video |
| Posted on Sunday 29 August 2010 - 14:22:23 |
| 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 |
 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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