The Missing Moment: How the Unconscious Shapes Modern Science
The key topics include:
- The thalamus as a clock, 40 Hz and 1000 Hz.
- 0.5 sec delay after a stimulus turns into a conscious sensation
- clock's phase synchronizing to external sound stimuli
- incapability of brain to discriminate and feel consciously events shorter than ~1/80th of sec
- even a slight thalamus damage may cause deep coma - circuitry goes out of sync
If you have free time and curiosity, check out the list:
http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/~amit/books/master-booklist0.html#Brain and Cognition
...and others, such as:
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
3 коментара:
Thanks Todor! That knol is still pretty raw, I'll have a new edit soon. The Missing Moment looks interesting, though a bit fruity (I only skimmed some of it). That excerpt is pretty good, but the format is atrocious. You can read most of the book on Google Books.
You're welcome!
>That excerpt is pretty good, but the format is atrocious.
Yes: font, background, abbreviations...
>You can read most of the book on Google Books.
Thanks, but are you sure (I've been confused for other books). I can't find such edition, only the first 48 pages.
http://books.google.com/books?id=VPpVgdqrsxUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Missing+Moment:+How+the+Unconscious+Shapes+Modern+Science&hl=bg&ei=BwKcTLy6HIXG4Aaeu82ODQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
You're right, the chapter "Sensation" is missing there. BTW, I posted a new edit: "Executive Attention".
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