What Hallucination Reveals about Our Minds
Added by Sonya Yeh Spencer, ITANLP Trainer, Educator & Coach
Did you know that about 10 percent of the hearing impaired people get musical hallucinations and about 10 percent of the visually impaired people get visual hallucinations? How do we do it? In this facinating video, you will learn a little [...]

Added by Mark Spencer, ITANLP Trainer, Educator and Coach
A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal or human acts and also when the human or animal observes the same action performed by another.
From an NLP perspective, we would say that the functions of Mirroring were discovered 20 years earlier by Grinder [...]

Many of the skills that Derren Brown is using are pure genius. Not everything here is meant to be done at home – that is not our intention for showing these. These videos are brilliant examples in some cases of deep rapport, language skills and anchoring – showing just how things can happen. [...]

A recent study shows that when faced with a decision, it’s best to take some time–relax and cool off–so logical thinking can guide us to the best choice. Christie Nicholson reports (Scientific American)
Play the Podcast here:
sa_p_podcast_100417 or from Scientific American’s Website (Note that this broadcast uses stereo features and for part of the [...]

From literature to architecture, academics and entrepreneurs are using neuroscience to explain everything from why we like a complex narrative thread to why round tables are more social. Christie Nicholson reports (Scientific American)
Play the Podcast here:
sa_p_podcast_100403 or from Scientific American’s website
…all sorts of industries are jumping to use any new brain information [...]

Podcast: Using Light to control the Brain…..this approach—called optogenetics—could return controlled movement to mice suffering from Parkinson’s. Beyond controlling neural firing in the brain, scientists have recently found that by inserting another gene cells will glow green when they fire. That means they can watch the brain in detailed action, a step towards decoding [...]

Scientists find that when the area of the brain responsible for understanding the intent of others is disrupted, moral judgment is also affected. Christie Nicholson reports (Scientific American)
Play the Podcast here:
sa_p_podcast_100329 or from Scientific American’s website
The researchers disrupted the activity in this brain area using what’s called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). And they asked [...]

We can’t touch time, or smell it. Yet it is utterly inescapable. But, research shows, time is – at least partly – something we control in our heads.
Although we rely on other ques when they are available, have you ever woken from a good sleep because you have told yourself you must get up at [...]

…Another fundamental skill that one can learn from NLP Practitioner training is how to re-program our own responses or neural-pathways to create change. The simplest way that you can do is remember a time that you might have lost your temper and reacted very strongly, only to regret what you said or did later. This is a bit like …

The Peeriodic Table of Illusions from an article on http://www.newscientist.com 12 November 2009 by Richard L. Gregory, Magazine issue 2733. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.

Excerpt….
FOR all the fun we have with them, illusions do serious work in illuminating how our brains work, and in particular how perception works. They may also [...]

Loneliness is infectious according to a study cited in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology for Dec/09. http://www.apa.org/journals/psp

Is this the work of those Mirror Neurons again? “Before losing their friends, lonely people transmit feelings of loneliness to their remaining friends, who also become lonely. Because loneliness is associated with mental and physical diseases that [...]

How to Get Smarter, One Breath at a Time By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen (Time Magazine) Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2006
One recent study found evidence that the daily practice of meditation thickened the parts of the brain’s cerebral cortex responsible for decision making, attention and memory. Sara Lazar, a research scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital, presented [...]

Full atricle – neurophilosophy

Category: Neuroscience • Vision, Posted on: November 6, 2009 12:50 PM, by Mo

A novel temporal illusion, in which the cause of an event is perceived to occur after the event itself, provides some insight into the brain mechanisms underlying conscious perception. The illusion, described in the journal Current Biology by a [...]

These are demonstrations surrounding Phantom Limbs. The concept is interesting for understanding our body and the subject of proprioception and how we perceive our bodies.

Video: Derren Brown working with a man’s Phantom Limbs

Derren Brown works with a person’s Phantom Limb and demonstrates how he can touch limbs that don’t even exist. How he [...]

The research into neuroplasticity in neuro-science gives us an insight into what is possible for NLP interventions and generally how the brain functions.
NORMAN DOIDGE, a PSYCHIATRIST in Canada and author of Dr. Paul Bach-y-Rita, had been working on sensory substitution and he found a way to give her a hat that contained something called an [...]