With multifaceted effects from analgesia, amnesia, paralysis and loss of consciousness the mechanisms of anesthesia are still a mystery. Can tracking with EEG provide deeper…
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The Puzzle of Working Memory
Working memory, the capacity to keep things ‘in mind’ such as a phone number, is a phenomenon poorly understood in Neuroscience. What do we know…
Detrended Fluctuation Analysis: A Glimpse at Memory in the EEG
DFA is a method to identify self-similarity of signals in time – a way of quantifying an aspect of memory. How does it work, how…
Searching for Memory in the EEG
The search for correlates of memory in the EEG has been a confounding area of study. The answer may lie in clever approaches to temporal…
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…