Blogging on the Brain: 11/30

A lot of good brain blogging lately; some beautiful drawings from the era of phrenology, some crazy kids high on scopolamine, James Flynn's current thoughts on intelligence, and more...

Who has better graphics? It's a close call between the phrenology of old and today's fMRI.

Beware the No2 Pencil - even low levels of lead exposure can lead to cognitive decline.

Getting high on scopolamine is not a good idea, but videos of it are pretty entertaining.

Mind, the time-machine: video proof (at the bottom) that hippocampus travels to places you haven't been yet.

The speed of thought in memory consolidation?

Interesting speculation about brain imaging implants.

The wire-mother experiment for the new millenium: toddlers cuddle robots!

Flynn argues that intelligence is like the atom (disregard the physics envy)

Slides and videos from NIPS '06 - including a lecture on systems level modeling of biological data and another on Bayesian models of learning & inference.

A new - and very versatile - network algorithm. Seems to compute path propagation in networks of with varying geometries and association weights.

Does PFC train intraparietal sulcus in mapping numbers to symbols?

BlogRoll Additions:
Distributed Neuron
Neurointerests
Philosophy of Memory

Have a nice weekend!

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This is from your speed of thought link above:
...During sleep, the reactivated memories of real-time experiences are processed within the brain at a higher rate of speed. That rate can be as much as six or seven times faster, and is described as thought speed.
As a former computer guru I learned early on to quit saying, " That is impossible, or they will never do that"
This little tidbit from your link has me making a note for future reference that some biochemist is going to figure that all out and eventually I am going to be thinking 6 or 7 times faster! LOL! I wonder if that will hurt! LOL!
Dave Briggs :~)