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Can an individual having strong identity associations with groups be used to infer anything about them?
I've been reading a few articles and papers about individuals identifying with groups and their behaviors and attitudes, however I haven't yet found an answer to one of the questions that I was trying to learn about.
What does a strong identity…
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What keeps the cerebrospinal fluid circulating? Is it pumped by something?
What keeps the cerebrospinal fluid circulating? Is it pumped by something?
This picture from wikipedia seems to indicate that it pulsates as though it is pumped:
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Can neural spiking in an organism temporarily cease?
I'm interested in modeling human brain spiking activity.
Are there cases in which neural spiking completely ceases in an organism and yet later resumes?
I've considered:
hypothermic drowning, but medical reports (e.g., here) on the topic suggest…
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Where does instinctual knowledge come from?
From Wikipedia:
Instinct or innate behavior is the inherent inclination of a living
organism towards a particular complex behavior.
The example that I find is the easiest to touch upon is the spider and how it knows how to spin it's web. What…
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Theoretical grounding for Agile/Scrum methodologies in software development
Agile and Scrum methodologies are well known and often studied and written about in software development. But these methodologies are about managing the activities and the workplace itself.
Are there psychologic or sociologic theories (like those…
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Why do people get "too old to learn"?
This may be a stereotype, but many of us encounter a lot of people who insist that they can't learn a new technology because they're too old. Some of these people can be brilliant learners in their youth - doctors, lawyers, prominent businessmen,…
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What can be inferred about the strength of the synapse from an electron microscope image?
In the following EM image (1um scale), there are several synapses:
Image or HD Version
What information about the synaptic strengths can be extracted from this image?
Does vesicle count contain information?
What about the cross sectional "length" of…
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What brain regions are activated when a dream is remembered?
Some people remember dreams, others don't. The same person can wake up with dream recall one day and without on other days. I know that the association between REM sleep and dreaming was initially established by awakening test subjects during REM…
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How long could Henry Molaison keep his memory of the present?
I'm talking about Henry Molaison (HM), the famous memory research patient. I hear that he could converse normally with a researcher until he "got distracted", at which point he no longer remembered ever meeting the researcher.
Molaison was able to…
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Can a person "self-induce" the placebo effect?
Despite a recent dubious claim that placebos don't require deception (critiqued here), placebos appear to function on the basis that a subject believes X will have effect Y. Without knowing too much detail, we say that the subject's mind/body will…
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Can attention be improved to reduce the frequency of mistakes?
There is a class of error that is sometimes colloquially referred to as "not paying attention". These are the sorts of error where the subject knows the correct way to perform a task, but fails to follow it due to a lapse in whatever mental process…
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Is there difference between a memory of a dream and memory of waking experience?
I'm very interested in dreaming and have pretty good dream recall. This makes me able to recall and distinguish hundreds of experience within my memory and label them as "dreams". I'm trying to understand if there's indeed some feature of a dream…
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Is autodidactism a feature that can only be possessed by special kinds of individuals?
I am from Brazil – at the current moment, education in this country is undoubtedly poor. I've been learning some things over the years on my own, mostly downloading content from the internet and reading.
Whenever I tell people (in my country) that…
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Are there any open access journals in the cognitive sciences with impact factor >1
Impact factors are scores assigned to journals which indicate how often, on average, articles are cited. Impact factors are published in Journal Citation reports of Thomson Reuters.
These reports however, do not indicate whether journals are open…
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Reading vs. watching a lecture: which activity results in higher knowledge retention?
I teach calculus to freshmen and currently spend most of the classroom time lecturing. To make classes more interactive I'd like to shift this phase of "knowledge transfer" outside of classes. Either by giving students reading assignments, or by…
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