We've been taught that our brains are made up of neurons, which transmit electrical... ...k of them as binary switches, and the work of the brain takes many cells to decode the firings.When talki... ...n I can summarize here, but it explains why human brains are so much more p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/02/20/Your-Cortex-Contains-17-Billion-Computers/(Image credit: John Patrick Thomas)How one mysteri... ...as)How one mysterious medical case helped map the brain .On April 11, 1861, Dr. Pierre Paul Broca examined... ...uage could be traced to specific locations in the brain . Another doctor there was convinced that the brain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/02/08/Where-Does-Language-Live/(Owl Turd Comics/Shenanigansen)Sure, your brain is your second favorite organ, but that doesn't m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/16/Thanks-a-Lot-Brain-2/Patients with chronic frequent grand mal seizures... ...hat connect the left and right hemispheres of the brain . This keeps a seizure from overwhelming the entir... ...This keeps a seizure from overwhelming the entire brain . But these patients with split brains also gave us...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/05/31/You-Are-Two/(Meme: Minor Mistake Marvin)When we're tired and u... ...king about it consciously. Different parts of our brains take over monitoring our activities. Sometimes th... ...ring our activities. Sometimes those parts of the brain make really stupid decisions.Redditor Kirushi ask... ...lize where I messed up.How h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/05/27/Whats-the-Most-Bizarre-Thing-Youve-Caught-Yourself-Doing-after-Your-Brains-Autopilot-Misfired/The following is an article from The Annals of Imp... ...points out what happens specifically where in the brain . If all of these studies are correct, we now know... ...ures from a small number (typically about ten) of brains , is inspiring confidence in thousands of research... ...ew highlights from the man...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/05/10/Where-in-Your-Head/Priorities, people. If you’re going to worry, worry about the truly awful things you shouldn’t even be thinking about. And there’s nothing like being alone with your thoughts, without distraction, to ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/12/07/Self-Soothing/[https://youtu.be/loGi6-_rWv0] (YouTube link)On th... ...floss List Show, we learn a bunch of trivia about brains . BRAINS . Braaaaains. Ahem. A lot of it is refuting miscon... ...isconceptions you’ve always heard about the brain , like dinosaurs having an extra one and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/10/16/22-Brain-Facts/The Thinker | Image: KaischingNo matter how intelligent one is, we all are susceptible to glitches in our thought process known as cognitive biases. Psychologists define cognitive bias in the following way:"A cognitive b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/07/The-12-Cognitive-Biases-That-Challenges-Our-Good-Judgment/Research into how we keep track of time in our hea... ...appear to be controlled by different parts of the brain , all somehow working together. New findings hint... ...how working together. New findings hint that the brain has legions of assorted clocks, all tick-tocking... ...ick-tocking at different rate...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/17/How-the-Brain-Perceives-Time/