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How is averaging used in calculating the Bereitschaftspotential?
I have a question about the averaging involved in the Bereitschaftspotential. On the wiki page you can read that, because it is so small, the Bereitschaftspotential only becomes apparent after averaging.
My question: do they mean averaging over…
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Difference between "Social Roles" and "Social Groups"
The two terms "Social Roles" and "Social Groups" sound similar and I don't know if these terms are often just used interchangeably.
Is there a specific difference between "Social Roles" and "Social Groups"? Social Groups have group norms. But…
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Is learning to do a task automatically an example of intuition?
I'm looking for some examples to understand what people call their intuition at work when making their decisions.
For example:
We learn to type and then after some time we begin to type
by automatically knowing position of alphabet on…
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How much red/orange is needed to stimulate hunger?
A common claim thrown around is that red and orange are great for restaurants because it stimulates hunger. However, I've heard time and time again that this does not work in web design because you need a whole room to be red/orange to stimulate…
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Free software to run questionnaire based experiments
I am looking for free software to build experiments that do not heavily rely on accurate timing (where I use PsychoPy and heard a lot of good things about OpenSesame) but more on an easy way to implement different types of items and response…
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Difficulty of having profound scientific discussions with more than 2 or 3 people?
I am a physicist and the other day, a friend of mine pointed out something that I had never noted explicitly before. This is an empirical observation, but it seems true to me, and it may raise a lot of questions about the current organization of…
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What exactly is the neurobiological mechanism behind the functioning of the human muscle?
From what I have read, its been given that muscle functioning and coordination involves two processes: frequency summation and muscle recruitment. What I want to know is that, do these two processes work simultaneously or are these two stages…
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Why is working memory so small?
I know that the concept of working memory may be subject to discussion. Still, there is a storage capacity limit. This is a real mystery to me. Working memory is known to be positively correlated to various tests (IQ for example). Why did natural…
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Technical term for the loss of words in your mother-tongue when speaking a different language
I am basically looking for two words which are, though, related to some degree. It might even be that ultimately the same word is the answer to both parts of this question.
I split them up into two questions. That's the related question.
Anyhow,…
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Is there psychological research on seduction?
I've been reading a lot of books about seduction. Most of them rely on (approximative) psychological basis and presents really interesting insights. Robert Greene - Art of seduction, for example presents a lot of interesting factual happening and…
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12 percent of our dreams are in black and white?
Pavan Teja says on Psychtronics:
Did you know that ... 12 percent of our dreams are in black and white?
Is this true?
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The 12% even split up between young and old. From "Do we only dream in colour? A comparison of reported dream colour in…
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How would self awareness be limited without languages
Is it possible to posses a self awareness without having any sort of language at hand, not even a personal sign system. How would such an languageless experience be like?
I am not sure if this can be correlated, but how would be the experience or…
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Can split-brain patients sleep like whales?
Regular split-brain patients still have some remaining connection between the hemispheres, but would it be possible for their hemispheres to fall asleep independent of each other?
What about when not just the corpus callosum, but also the anterior…
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Is it possible to induce the processes that occur during sleep such as memory "garbage collection" without actually sleeping?
Some time ago I opened a question comparing drug withdrawal and sleep deprivation symptoms.
In fact, my main objective for that question was to know if there was by any chance, a possibility to live without sleeping.
I got a good answer for the “Why…
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What is the difference between computational neuroscience, theoretical neuroscience, and neuroinformatics (if there is one)?
In particular, theoretical and computational neuroscience seem to be synonymous with each other. Neuroinformatics at least seems to deal somewhat more with solving things numerically and the usage and creation of algorithms and programs.
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