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…
Creativity in the Brain
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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…
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…
The Blue Frog in the EEG
Alpha, beta, gamma what? Spectral decomposition of the EEG signal may lose critical information. In 1924 when Hans Berger first found a signal from the…
What Does EEG Have to Do with Perfume?
Why are large perfume companies building EEG divisions? Fragrances evoke memories, thoughts and feelings and the perception of smell is a complicated science. Nestled…
Citizen Science and EEG
Citizen Science and the study of the mind is empowered by EEG. How will it change the trajectory of Neuroscience? I used to have a…
Linking Cognitive Science with Neuroscience
How can the theories of Cognitive Science developed from observations of human behavior be reconciled with Neuroscience or the behavior of the brain? You’ve probably…
Decoding the Electric Brain
How a dead frog and a telegram led to the discovery of the human encephalogram. If scientific progress is a series of building blocks, then…
