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genetic
 
lost due to stroke
 
Imagination
 
Inferotemporal cortex
 
Information
 
acquiring
 
analysis of
 
atoms of
 
brain process
 
carrying capacity
 
color based
 
combined
 
competing
 
complex
 
compressing
 
consciousness and
 
distribution of
 
fidelity of
 
flow of
 
hierarchy
 
increase in
 
input of
 
letters of in genetics
 
lower-level
 
manipulating
 
neurons and
 
physical structure of primordial life and
 
quantity of
 
redundancy in.
See also
Chunking
 
semi-chaotic activity and
 
sequence of
 
sharing
 
sources of
 
storing
 
streaming
 
visual
 
Information integration theory
 
Information processing
 
attention and
 
brain and
 
consciousness and
 
enhancing
 
levels of
 
unconsciousness and
 
Information structure.
See also
Structure
 
Innovations
 
chaotic
 
consciousness and
 
desperate times and
 
evolutionary
 
maximal
 
primate
 
spurious
 
tools of
 
Insanity
 
Instinct
 
language
 
Intellect
 
impoverished
 
Intelligence.
See also
IQ artificial
 
Interactions
 
neural
 
social
 
Internal worlds
 
IQ
 
ADHD and
 
autism and
 
Raven’s Progressive Matrices
 
Wechsler Intelligence Scales
 
 
Jackson, Frank
 
Jackson, Michael
 
James, Iain
 
 
Kahneman, Daniel
 
Kanai, Ryota
 
Kanzi
(Savage-Rumbaugh and Lewin)
 
Kawachi, Ichiro
 
Keeling, Jeremy
 
Kelvin, Lord
 
Ketamine
 
Klingberg, Torkel
 
Knight, Bob
 
Knowledge
 
accumulating
 
consciousness and
 
hierarchy of
 
strength of
 
structured
 
unconscious
 
Kornell, Nate
 
 
Lamme, Victor
 
Language.
See also
Grammar; Speech
 
autism and
 
binary
 
body
 
brain and
 
chunking and
 
computers and
 
developmentally delayed
 
DNA
 
learning
 
production
 
Larsson, Stieg
 
Learning
 
anesthesia and
 
animal capacity for
 
avoiding physical damage by
 
collective
 
complex
 
consciousness and
 
evolution and
 
exploiting opportunities for
 
forms of
 
maximizing
 
memory and
 
permanence of
 
process
 
rudimentary
 
sleep required for effective
 
strategies.
See also
Chunking
 
unconscious
 
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
 
Levin, Daniel
 
Lewin, Roger
 
Libet, Benjamin
 
Life.
See also
Organisms
 
death barely dissociable from
 
origins of
 
Limbic system
 
Logic
 
Logothetis, Nikos
 
Lucas, Michel
 
Luria, Alexander
 
Luzzatti, Claudio
 
 
Mandarin
 
Marslen-Wilson, William
 
Mary and knowing what it is like
 
Massimini, Marcello
 
Matata, story of
 
Mathematics and mental arithmetic
 
Matrix, The
(film)
 
Meaning.
See also
Chinese Room argument
 
consciousness and
 
Medical Research Council (MRC), Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
 
Medications.
See
Drugs
 
Meditation
 
brain changes and
 
consciousness and
 
long-term shifts from
 
working memory and
 
Meditations on First Philosophy
(Descartes)
 
Memorization
 
Memory.
See also
Working memory
 
brain areas
 
chunks and.
See also
Chunking; Chunks
 
content
 
effective
 
learning and
 
long-term
 
loss
 
motor
 
neurons and
 
problems with
 
resources
 
rudimentary forms of
 
short-term
 
strategies with.
See also
Strategies
 
structured
 
superior.
See also
Tammet, Daniel
 
tests
 
thought and
 
Mental illness.
See also
Anxiety;
 
Asperger’s Syndrome; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder;
 
Autism; Bipolar disorder;
 
Depression; Obsessive
 
compulsive disorder;
 
Schizophrenia
 
brain abnormalities and
 
consciousness and
 
pandemic of
 
political neglect of
 
reinforcing by habit
 
stress and
 
 
Mental retardation
 
Mental states
 
Michelson, Albert
 
Miller, George
 
Mind.
See also
Brain
 
conscious.
See
Consciousness
 
unconscious.
See
Unconsciousness
 
Mind-body duality
 
Mirror-recognition test
 
Monkeys
 
Monti, Martin
 
Moore, Christopher
 
Moral questions, consciousness and
 
Morley, Edward
 
Motivations.
See also
Drives; Goals
 
Movement
 
behavior and
 
senses and
 
MRI.
See also
Diffusion tensor imaging; fMRI
 
Multiple personality disorder
 
Music, structures and
 
Mutations rates of
 
 
Nagel, Thomas
 
Nash, John: paranoid delusions of
 
Natural selection.
See also
Evolution
 
Neglect
 
Nematode worm (
Caenorhabditis elegans
)
 
Networks
 
brain regions, connected in.
See also
Prefrontal parietal network
 
diverse forms of, with similar characteristics
 
fungal
 
informational/knowledge
 
neuronal
 
nodes in a
 
theories of consciousness and
 
Neurochemicals.
See
Neurotransmitters
 
Neurology
 
Neurons
 
activity of
 
artificial
 
characteristics of
 
communication by
 
competition between
 
computing by
 
connection of
 
consciousness and
 
cortex and
 
in FFA
 
flexibility in

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