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Are there any EEG procedures currently available/in development that can formulate letters/words from deliberate, internal monologue?
I am thinking of the combination of an EEG-like device and software to monitor and analyze (very) deliberate thoughts of letters/words.
The input would be in the form of raw electrical brain activity from the EEG and the output from the software…
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Can learning styles be changed?
Fleming's model of learning suggests 3 types of learners :
Visual: Learns by visually taking screenshots of data or by remembering pictures/scenes etc.
Auditory: Learns by hearing; can be by hearing oneself speak
Kinesthetic/Tactile: Learns by…
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What are the effects of the "blue eyes/brown eyes" racism exercise?
In the "blue eyes/brown eyes" exercise created by Jane Elliott in the 1960s, she divided a group of schoolchildren by eye color and characterized one of them (e.g., the blue eyed group) as an inferior group. The aim of the exercise is to show how…
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Do introverts engage in too much self-control or do they lack impulsivity?
Regardless of whether people are extraverts or introverts, if they are asked to act in an extraverted way, this improves their mood (for example Zelenski and others 2012). My question is concerns the reasons for why introverts don't engage in…
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What are some good references for preprocessing and analysis of the P300 response from EEG data in Python?
I have just started to work on problems in neuroscience on my own. I sought to analyze the P300 response from EEG data because I was trying to understand a Kaggle.com challenge that used it. I found a few available datasets online, a couple of…
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Can one become addicted to learning?
Is it possibly to become addicted to learning?
What drives this addiction and how can it be controlled?
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I'm not sure this is the right exchange for this question... Its the best fit as far as I can see though.
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Evidence that positive rewards are learnt faster than negative rewards?
Its folk psychology wisdom that its easier to reward positive behavior than punish negative behavior (e.g. any book on parenting or dog training), but is there any evidence in the cognitive science literature that this is indeed the case? And if so,…
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How common is alien hand syndrome?
The impression that I got from looking at a couple of articles on alien hand syndrome was that it was an extremely common or basically guaranteed result of getting a callosotomy to treat severe epilepsy. However, I just ran into a study that showed…
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To what degree is emotional state visible in a person's eyes?
Is it true that a person's emotional state (such as arousal, fear, etc) can be determined by looking solely at the persons eyes?
Here I am assuming that this may be the case only in limited circumstances (specific scenarios or specific basic…
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Is there a relation between speed of executing a task and ones intelligence?
I recently came across a code refactoring problem. Considering the risk of getting into a risky bug later I switched to my usual mode of think and solve it, rather than go and make the changes fast. However, another colleague of mine solved the same…
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Removing ocular artifacts from EEG signals
I have read the following paper , which is try to remove EOG artifacts from EEG signal , the authors give the following figure .
The authors claim that components 1 and 2 represent electro-oculographic (EOG) artifacts. This is because its scalp…
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What are other methods to induce ego depletion besides using emotional videos and thought suppression?
Muraven and Baumeister (2000) proposed that self-control is a limited resource akin to strength or a muscle, to deplete this limited resource leads to subsequent self-regulatory failure. Ego depletion, the temporary depletion of self-regulatory…
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How does glial cell activity influence fMRI, EEG signals?
Glial cells comprise about 80% of the cells in the human brain. But physiological models of EEG and fMRI often relate only to neuronal activity.
How do glial cells affect large-scale imaging modalities?
Also, does glial activity artifact dye imaging…
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Do ability tests predict maximal more than typical job performance?
I have often read that ability tests are indicative of what people "can do", but that job performance also depends on what people "will do".
For example, Ackerman and Beier (2012) wrote that:
There is a fundamental mismatch between what is measured…
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What is the difference between pre-synaptic versus post-synaptic?
As a non-specialist, I am unclear as to the exact meaning of the terms pre-synaptic and post-synaptic.
Specifically, do they refer to
the same neuron, either transmitting or receiving, before and after the chemical synapse has occurred, OR
two…
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