Brain Definition and 740 Threads

Found it in a magazine...and as much as I've tried - I cannot solve it. CAn you? 1.First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to eat chocolate (try for more than once but less than 10). 2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold). 3. Add 5 (for Sunday). 4...

PRESS RELEASE UCLA Team Maps How Genes Affect Brain Structure, Intelligence UCLA brain mapping researchers have created the first images to show how an individual's genes influence their brain structure and intelligence. Complete text at...

Brain scan 'identifies race bias' A brain scan that can apparently root out racists has been developed by scientists. The technique was used on white volunteers shown photographs of black individuals. Complete text at...

When will computer hardware match the human brain? (Received Dec. 1997) Hans Moravec Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA net: hpm@cmu.edu web: http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/ ABSTRACT This paper describes how the performance of...

Have our brains come to the point in evolution where we could soon utilize them as mathematical matrices, noncommutative networks, and quantum logicians? Such reasoning may bestow the statistical benefits for predicting and understanding otherwise paradoxical or convoluted outcomes. If so...

1. A new high school has just been completed. There are 1,000 lockers in the long hall of the school and they have been numbered from 1 to 1,000. During lunch, the 1,000 students decide to try an experiment. - The first student, student 1, runs down the row of lockers and opens every door...

http://www.carlzimmer.com/blog/C1015037710/E1377996308/index.html on exciting work being done with tMRI. A careful analysis of research that shows that being a racist slows you down on cognitive tasks - or does it?

Hurkyl, I've been wondering, is there an analytic solution to this, or did you just write a loop with something like if((i*37)%109==1) printf("%d",i); ?

What essentially makes up brain matter? I mean the very composition of neurons.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A17434-2003Oct12?language=printer

The brain is the oldest computer known, developed through a process still undetermined in millions of years. As I see it now the brain is developing a computer to the level of A.I. (interesting). The brain needs information to function such as eyes,smell,taste,touch,hearing as forerunners...

Is it possible for us to make a functional model of the human brain? I'm not interested in the phylosophical implications, but more in the resources, techonolgies we can use (that's why I posted here... )

http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2003-09-29-6

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[SOLVED] 3 Questions that have wracked my brain for two weeks If anyone can help this physics novice out, I have been working on these problems for 2 weeks. I just started looking at an old Physics book, trying to brush up... so if you can help, here are the 4 questions: 1.) When you life a...

I was wandering what area this would be called under Physics, however,The question is this... Considering that you have the ability to convert a text data or photo data into recognizable information to our brain, what would the possiblity be to transfer a 1,000 page textbook from a...

What replaces the ? in the puzzle below? 1 Lincoln + 2 Jeffersons + 3 Roosevelts + 4 Washingtons + 5 Kennedys _______________ ?

I am trying to find out some information about the nerves that deliver sensory inputs into the brain. I understand that neurons in the brain itself share thousands of connections to other neurons. The neurons that deliver sensory information into the brain at some point meet the ones in the...

http://content.health.msn.com/content/article/72/81660.htm i found this quite interesting that anti-depressants help the activity of increasing brain cells...

D O G M A K I C K S M U S H Y P A S T E see brain teaser #18, this is housing again.

If you'd be kind enough to answer my qeustion, thanks. I'd like know what are the effects of alcohol on the brain? Permanent and temporary

A D M I T C A P E R R O B E S T A L O N WORKED EXAMPLE (1)The choice of the first letter of the mystery word is either a C, R, A or T as these are the first letters of the given words. (Choose C). (2)The second letter of the mystery word is either and A, O or D (A is...

Brain Teaser #4?? What is the explanation. It seems totally incorrect. If the son is going to stay 123 weeks - and each week he HAS TO break off new links. Then he MUST break off something each of the 123 weeks. Explain the question...

I guess I don't have access to the brain teaser forum. This one kinda confused me: Using “Only Four” ZEROS (0) and any Mathematical Operations/Symbols, to obtain the number 24. Answer is (0! + 0! + 0! + 0!)! = 24 I know I am a bit rusty with hex/binary arithmatic but the answer i...

Greetings ! What's all that stuff about (0! + 0! + 0! + 0!)! = 24 !? Thanks ! :smile: Live long and prosper.

I took this from another board I posted on. Noone could really answer much of it. Please no debate about what intelligence is. I couldn't find a neuroscience message board, but I have some questions, so I'm hoping someone can answer them here. What exactly makes one intelligent. Is it the...

I don't know if this necessarily belongs in the philosophy section, but we'll try it on for size. So as you all know, we use maybe 10 percent of our brain's capacity(some use considerably less, but that's another topic:wink:). Einstein purportedly used maybe 20% of his brain(this may be an...

Some years earlier I read a book about brain enhancment, and of the many substances tested, it seemed that intake of nicotine had been the only one that actually IMPROVED test scores. Caffiene, one of the other substances tested, was not useful in this respect nor were many of the things...

When we percieve objects through vision, our visual cortex is involved in processing the information. When we dream, I think it is also working. But what about when we imagine geometric objects that aren't really there? If I were to start thinking about an object from my memory, would the visual...

I've begun taking a herbal dietary supplement that claims increased memory capability and other such enhancements to brain functions. I read somewhere that they are not effective, however, I have noticed a distinct change, one that I believe may validate some of the supplement's claims: I...

From the Marrium webster online dictionary brain> 1 a : the portion of the vertebrate central nervous system that constitutes the organ of thought and neural coordination, includes all the higher nervous centers receiving stimuli from the sense organs and interpreting and correlating them to...

What kind of electricity does our brain use? direct current or alternating current?

Here is a favorite of mine from college that I thought you might enjoy: Consider a closed square loop of wire with two resistors, R1 and R2, each located in-line and symmetric about the center of the loop. Two voltmeters each measure the voltage change, V1 and V2, across R1 and R2 respectively...

A scientific model why memory aka consciousness cannot reside solely in the brain: http://www.nderf.org/Berkovich.htm

FYI http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58714,00.html

"The hyperstructure of the brain" I found this discussion on the Mkaku.org community. It is very...different and I wanted to know what pf members thought about it. Believe me, its a very interesting idea: http://www.mkaku.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=230

[SOLVED] A discussion about the brain. If there is no such thing as 'purpose' in the whole universe, then how can we say that the universe has bestowed us with our own sense of purpose? We have purpose in life. Even if that purpose is just to stay alive and enjoy life. So where does this...

is there any kind of studies done on people who use one half of the brain more then the other and some of the differences in personality characteristics? for example: one of the first things i note about people i meet is what hand they dominantly use, and if it is the left hand, it seems...

My Biology teacher had recently said that we actually use only like 4-5% of our brain capacity. Is she correct?[?] I think that we are using close to or 100% of our brain capacity. Because the brain uses the highest amount of energy in our body, so i doubt that evolution of such a big brain...

The other day i came across [Removed Broken Link], and while reading it i started thinking; "Why don't we human try to compress the things we learn before learning them, and uncompress them when we need to remember them ?". Then i realized that the human brain finds it easier to memorize a...