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Ideas of Rita Carter, by Text
[British, fl. 1998, Freelance science journalist.]
p. 12
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p.12
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Pain doesn't have one brain location, but is linked to attention and emotion
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p. 17
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p.17
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Proper brains appear at seven weeks, and neonates have as many neurons as adults do
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p. 17
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p.17
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Scans of brains doing similar tasks produce very similar patterns of activation
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p. 19
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Babies show highly emotional brain events, but may well be unaware of them
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Normal babies seem to have overlapping sense experiences
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p. 30
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The 'locus coeruleus' is one of several candidates for the brain's 'pleasure centre'
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No one knows if animals are conscious
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The only way we can control our emotions is by manipulating the outside world that influences them
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Sense organs don't discriminate; they reduce various inputs to the same electrical pulses
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p.181
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The recognition sequence is: classify, name, locate, associate, feel [PG]
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p.187
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Out-of-body experiences may be due to temporary loss of proprioception
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Brain lesions can erase whole categories of perception, suggesting they are hard-wired
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A frog will starve to death surrounded by dead flies
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In primates, brain size correlates closely with size of social group
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p.298
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There is enormous evidence that consciousness arises in the frontal lobes of the brain
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Consciousness involves awareness, perception, self-awareness, attention and reflection
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p.307
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p.307
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In blindsight V1 (normal vision) is inactive, but V5 (movement) lights up
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p.308
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p.308
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There seems to be no dividing line between a memory and a thought
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p.312
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p.312
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Thinking takes place on the upper side of the prefrontal cortex
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