Cognitive Labs

For the evening, visit the global cognitive map. As you will see, we favor clean interface design - this with PhotoShop and of course, notepad.

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This comes from EurekaAlert, worth a read


How 'hot' emotional brain interferes with 'cool' processing


Florin Delcos (left) and Gregory McCarthy
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For the first time, researchers have seen in action how the "hot" emotional centers of the brain can interfere with "cool" cognitive processes such as those involved in memory tasks. Their functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) images of human volunteers exposed to emotional distraction revealed a "see-saw" effect, in which activation of emotional centers damped activity in the "executive" centers responsible for such processing.

The findings of the Duke University Medical Center researchers provide insight into the basic brain mechanisms responsible for the distraction caused by emotional stimuli that are irrelevant to a task. Moreover, they said, the findings offer a new approach to understanding how people with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder cope with traumatic events and memories. It is known that people with such problems are far more affected by emotional distraction.

Development of new drugs to alleviate, for example, the haunting memories of PTSD sufferers will be aided by the fMRI technique the researchers developed to precisely measure this distraction, they said.

The researchers, Florin Dolcos and Gregory McCarthy, published their findings in the Feb. 15, 2006, issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. Their work was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Veterans Administration. Dolcos is a postdoctoral fellow and McCarthy is director of the Duke-UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center (http://www.biac.duke.edu/), where the studies took place.
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If you read the previous post, you could see why there is a profound reason, even if you are not yet one of the 77 million boomers in the U.S. to take a test, to register and think about regular monitoring. By the way we have another dozen tests and an additional 200 games that we will be releasing...on a steady basis, first to paid subscribers.

RSS serves as a neuronic synapse, each data entry point (blogger)is an input. Can communal sentience be achieved? Imagine transcoded thoughts being transmitted with XML, rather than text files, with links to all the necessary objects. Just a thought. Measuring the speed and location of every node is important in creating a global map. That why it's important to eliminate cognitive impairment through early detection and proper neuro, genetic, and biochemical bug fixes or 'patches,' or maybe: 'cognitive service pack 33.4'

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