The nature of consciousness is difficult to understand but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn to manipulate it. Consciousness is the most elusive aspect of…
Getting at Consciousness
Lab Talk
For Cognitive Flexibility, Forget the Past
Being flexible in our approach to the future often requires the ability to inhibit or forget the past. In 1942, Abraham Luchins published a seminal…
Brainbase Beta
Brainbase is a platform to accelerate and amplify EEG research that will launch in a couple months. Here is a sneak peek. EEG research today…
Creativity in the Brain
What is creativity and can we actually study its underpinnings in the brain? Its no simple challenge but doing so may yield key insights into…
Human Brains and the Control Issue
Human brain activity is constantly changing and diverse and lack of sufficient metadata can make results difficult to interpret. Anyone who has recorded and analyzed…
Musing About Age with EEG
Power from the people: Commercial headsets such as Muse deliver insights on aging from large-scale EEG datasets. For decades scientists have focused on collecting EEG…
Alpha Oscillations and Attention
Alpha activity in the EEG is associated with attention and internal imagery but questions remain. Alpha oscillations are perhaps the most noticeable feature of EEG…
Deconstructing a Thought
The quest to find the physiological substrate of a thought has been elusive. What should we be looking for? Distributed memories American psychologist Karl Lashley…
From Mouse Brain to Human Brain
Why you can’t learn about the human brain from monkeys, rats and mice Much of neuroscience research spending and published output relates to studies done…
Alpha Oscillations and Modernization
Modernization may have influenced the emergence of a strong alpha oscillation in the human EEG and contributed to greater diversity in brain dynamics. Alpha: the…