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| Dark energy in the brain? |
What? There's "dark energy" in the brain? Not in mine I hope!  Actually, it's not as bad as it sounds. There is an article out now in the journal Science (requires subscription, get the gist here), where the author ...[more] |
| spontaneous activity output/input behavior dark energy brain fMRI Raichle humans |
| Posted on Wednesday 29 November 2006 - 09:44:59 |
| "Dark Energy" in the brain accounts for human behavioral variability |
| For the last year or so there's been much talk about the fact that the brain apparently spends up to 99% of its energy on apparently useless, task-unrelated activity. Nobody knew what these activity fluctuations were goo...[more] |
| spontaneous activity output/input behavior dark energy brain fMRI Raichle humans |
| Posted on Friday 05 October 2007 - 16:11:24 |
| New on brembs.net: spontaneity |
| I gave the entire 'spontaneity' section a revamp. It's now just a short text providing some general background linking together the three publications concerning the ability of all animals to generate spontaneous behavio...[more] |
| spontaneity spontaneous behavior spontaneous activity free will actions responses active brembs.net |
| Posted on Sunday 17 April 2011 - 12:49:17 |
| Behavioral Freedom and Decision-Making in Flies - an Evolutionary Precursor of 'Free Will'? |
| This July I will be speaking with this title at the University of Québec at Montréal summer institute "The Evolution and Function of Consciousness". With me will be such luminaries as Daniel Dennett, Antonio Damasio, Wo...[more] |
| free will indeterminism spontaneous activity behavioral freedom UQAM |
| Posted on Thursday 17 May 2012 - 00:40:23 |
| Watching fly brains as they think |
| My colleague Jean-Rène Martin (we spent some years in the Heisenberg lab in Würzburg) and his co-workers at the CNRS in France have developed a new method for imaging activity in the fly brain (Drosophila). The researche...[more] |
| imaging drosophila brain spontaneous activity |
| Posted on Tuesday 17 April 2007 - 14:52:34 |
| Goal-directed Cognition - Embodied Cognition |
| I just stumbled across a great article on Boston.com about "Embodied Cognition". It describes how we often perform complex cognitive tasks better if we are allowed to move around. This reminded me a lot of an article cal...[more] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 12 February 2008 - 13:56:24 |
| Wordle for my upcoming article on free will |
| The Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences have asked me to write a review article for a special issue on 'minibrains'. The topic of my article was to deal with free will and invertebrates. I just submit...[more] |
| free will freedom behavioral variability spontaneous activity spontaneity Proc. Roy. Soc. |
| Posted on Wednesday 24 November 2010 - 09:46:04 |
| Towards a scientific concept of free will |
 Today, the Royal Society published my article reviewing the invertebrate data supporting a scientific concept of free will. In it, I first reiterate that the metaphysical concept of free will is long dead (since the 197...[more] |
| free will decision-making spontaneity spontaneous activity invertebrates |
| Posted on Wednesday 15 December 2010 - 20:35:28 |
| Natur+cosmos article on free will out |
| The German article on free will I was blogging about a few weeks ago has now appeared in the latest issue of natur+cosmos. It is even the cover article and I will scan the pages and put them here when I get back from the...[more] |
| media magazine free will natur+cosmos spontaneous activity drosophila |
| Posted on Friday 21 December 2007 - 14:00:26 |
| Upcoming "natur+cosmos" article on free will |
| I just received an email from Peter Laufmann from the German monthly magazine natur+cosmos. He told me has was writing an article about free will and was planning to cite our work on the ...[more] |
| media magazine free will natur+cosmos spontaneous activity Drosophila |
| Posted on Thursday 15 November 2007 - 13:55:27 |
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