cognitive fun! blog RSS http://cognitivefun.net Cognitive neuroscience for everyone! Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:13:09 -0800 Wow Dragan! This video is really amazing. The experience this woman had is quite something. I even went to her site: [url=http://www.braindumps-central.com]braindumps[/url] to learn more about what happened to her... and by the way,... I choose the right half of my brain! ;-) Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:27:26 -0700 http://cognitivefun.net/blog/post/5004#r_14604 Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish fortestking: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one. An astonishing story. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:24:59 -0700 http://cognitivefun.net/blog/post/5004#r_14603 I've seen this before. What I find interesting is I actually know how to "turn off" that lineal cognitive processing and rely on the less articulate experience that she communicates. Certain forms of meditation also rely on this capability. Very interesting. There are excellent videos centring V. Ramachandran as the lead. His ideas I find are very exciting and seminal to the developments of neuroscience. I recommend them very strongly. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:43:41 -0700 http://cognitivefun.net/blog/post/5004#r_5026 The TEDBlog link has the full transcript of the video Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:03:47 -0700 http://cognitivefun.net/blog/post/5004#r_5009 http://blog.ted.com/2008/03/jill_bolte_tayl.php Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:01:55 -0700 http://cognitivefun.net/blog/post/5004#r_5008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:35:22 -0700 http://cognitivefun.net/blog/post/5004#r_5007 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:35:22 -0700 http://cognitivefun.net/blog/post/5004#r_5006 Neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor describes her experience of having a stroke. This is a tremendously awesome "insider account" of a stroke by someone who understood and remembered the process. Dr. Taylor's story is also a good illustration of the specialization and lateralization of the brain hemispheres. Due to the location of her cerebral hemorrhage, she experienced the loss of procedural/logical reasoning, language production and comprehension, and control of one arm. Which hemisphere would that be? Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:35:22 -0700 http://cognitivefun.net/blog/post/5004#r_5005 Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:35:22 -0700 http://cognitivefun.net/blog/post/5004#r_5004 Blog Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:21:04 -0700 http://cognitivefun.net/blog/post/5004#r_4075