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controlling
 
emergent
 
enhancing
 
flaws in
 
information and
 
modifying
 
movement and
 
repetitive
 
stress and
 
subliminal messages and
 
treatment
 
Beilock, Sian
 
Beliefs
 
brain-based
 
evolutionary equivalent of
 
irrational or superstitious
 
Binocular rivalry
 
Biological machines
 
Bipolar disorder
 
Bisiach, Edoardo
 
Blade Runner
(film)
 
Blindsight
 
Blindtouch
 
Boly, Melanie
 
Bonobos
 
Born on a Blue Day
(Tammet)
 
Braille-reading, visual cortex activated
 
Brain
 
anatomy of
 
artificial
 
attention and
 
chemistry
 
complex
 
computational landscape of
 
computers and
 
consciousness and
 
development of
 
evolution and
 
function of
 
information processing and
 
interconnections of
 
language and
 
mapping
 
mind and
 
parallel/probabilistic nature of
 
processing by
 
recovery of
 
reptilian
 
rhythms/waves
 
sensory regions of
 
silicon
 
size of
 
specialized regions of
 
structure of
 
training
 
tumors
 
visual
 
weight of
 
Brain activity
 
chunking and
 
communication by
 
Brain damage
 
consciousness and
 
risk of
 
Brain network
 
Brain-scanning.
See also
Brain activity; fMRI
 
Brain stem
 
Breathing
 
Bulimia
 
Bush, George W.
 
Bush, Jeb
 
Byron, Lord
 
 
Caenorhabditis elegans
 
Cancer
 
Cardiovascular disease
 
Cerebellum
 
Chabris, Christopher
 
Change blindness
 
Changeux, Jean-Pierre
 
Chaos
 
misinterpreting
 
stability and
 
Chee, Michael
 
Chelazzi, Leonardo
 
Chemical
 
brain
See also
Neurotransmitters
 
complexity, breeding
 
constituents of life
 
imbalances, consciousness and
 
signaling
 
Chimpanzees
 
brain of
 
Chinese Room argument
 
Choices.
See
Decision Making/decisions
 
Choo, Wei Chieh
 
Chromosomes
 
Chunking
See also
Chunks; Strategies; Structure
 
animal
 
arts, use of
 
brain activity and
 
consciousness and
 
destructive form of
 
fruits of
 
hierarchical
 
language and
 
learning improvement and
 
levels of
 
mathematical
 
memory-based
 
prefrontal parietal network and
 
process of
 
propensity for
 
strategies for
 
visual
 
Chunks
 
building
 
deep-seated
 
detecting
 
information
 
innovative
 
language
 
mathematical
 
memory
 
mental
 
questioning
 
spotting
 
unconscious mind and
 
Claus, Ralf
 
Clayton, Nicky
 
Coffee: protection against depression
 
Cognition.
See also
Thought
 
consciousness and
 
Cognitive training
 
Cohen, Michael
 
Coma
 
Communication
 
brain activity and
 
information
 
language
 
neural
 
two-way brain
 
Complexity
 
adaptability and
 
flexibility and
 
neural
 
Computation
 
biological
 
Computers
 
biological
 
brain and
 
Chinese Room argument and
 
consciousness and
 
emotions/sensations and
 
evil
 
impact of
 
language and
 
meaning, ability to process
 
probabilistic parallel
 
serial deterministic
 
silicon
 
thoughts and
 
Concept of Mind, The
(Ryle)
 
Concepts
 
layering of
 
hierarchical
 
Concussions
 
Conjoined twins
 
Consciousness
 
anesthesia and
 
animal
 
artificial
 
attention and.
See also
Attention
 
attentional enhancement of
 
biological form of
 
blindsight and
 
brain damage and
 
brain damage, detecting in
 
brain damage, repairing
 
brain regions for
. See also
Prefrontal parietal network; Thalamus
 
brain waves/rhythms for
 
building
 
capacity for
 
changes in
 
characteristics of
 
chunking and
 
complexity of
 
components of
 
computational nature of.
See also
Chinese Room argument
 
contents of
 
continuum
 
decision making and
 
driving force of
 
dysfunctional
 
early
 
emotions/sensations and
 
engaging
 
essence of
 
evolutionary advantage of
 
evolutionary expansion in humans
 
explaining
 
extensive
 
fetus and questions of
 
fragility of
 
forms of
 
healing
 
higher-order
 
human compared with other species
 
infant
 
layers of
 
level of
 
limits of
 
location of.
See
Consciousness: brain regions for
 
loss of
 
meaning and
 
measuring
 
meditation and
 
mental illness and
 
minimal
 
models.
See
Consciousness: theories
 
mystery of
 
neuronal signature of
 
neurotransmitters and
 
overabundance of
 
prefrontal parietal network and
 
as physical event.
See also
Mind-body duality
 
purpose of
 
qualitative vs. quantitative
 
quantifying
 
reducing
 
scanning
 
science of
 
self-
See also
Mirror-recognition test
 
signature of
 
stress and
 
subjectivity of
 
thalamus and
 
theories of
 
timescale of
 
unconscious mind and
 
utility of
 

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