How could the theatre of the mind be generated by the machinery of the brain?

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 [...]

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Podcast: Making a Decision? Take Your Time

Podcast: Making a Decision? Take Your Time

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:
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Podcast: Neuroscience Is Everywhere

Podcast: Neuroscience Is Everywhere

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)
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…all sorts of industries are jumping to use any new brain information [...]

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Podcast: Manipulating Moral Judgment

Podcast: Manipulating Moral Judgment

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:
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The researchers disrupted the activity in this brain area using what’s called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). And they asked [...]

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How we keep Track of Time

How we keep Track of Time

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 [...]

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The Critical Seconds

The Critical Seconds

…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 …

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The Peeriodic Table of Illusions

The Peeriodic Table of Illusions

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.

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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 [...]

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Understanding our bodies, phantom limbs

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 [...]

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Neuroplasticity - report and video from ABC Lateline

Neuroplasticity – report and video from ABC Lateline

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 [...]

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I Didn't Sin—It Was My Brain

I Didn’t Sin—It Was My Brain

I Didn’t Sin—It Was My Brain Brain researchers have found the sources of many of our darkest thoughts, from envy to wrath.

by Kathleen McGowan; illustrations by Christopher Buzelli
From the September 2009 issue, published online October 5, 2009

This article talks about the research neuroscience has begun into such things as inhibitory cognitive control networks involving the [...]

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Synaesthesia

Synaesthesia

This is a link to the transcript of a Catalyst Report which is about the Synaesthesia. This use of the term Synaesthesia is basically the same concept that NLP has had from many years ealier. See our previous article on Synaesthesia to understand a little more about the concept from both an NLP perspective, and [...]

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Synesthesia: Hearing colours, tasting sounds.

The Monthly – AUSTRALIAN POLITICS, SOCIETY & CULTURE

Below are two links to videos of a presentation which is about the Synaesthesia. This use of the term Synaesthesia is basically the same concept that NLP has had from many years ealier. In NLP, the phenomenon of “overlap” has many applications, but specifically it is where [...]

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Neural Activity Advances – fMRI Researchers Cautioned

Cautions for fMRI Researchers – evidence that dead Salmon produce some brain activity may start correction and re-checking fMRI studies. Hopefully, all advances in this area will produce greater evidence that can be relied upon for how neural activity can be studied in more depth.
fMRI studies on dead Atlantic Salmon and the research [...]

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Communication between right and left hemispheres of the brain

This is a fascinating study of a sever epilepsy patient, who had his left and right brains surgically disconnected, and the expeirments they were able to do with him revealed a lot about the way our two hemispheres normally interact.

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What we can learn from stroke patients about right/left brain

Harvard psychiatary research – 20 minute video where Jill Bolte Taylor gives a very good description of the right and left hemisphere function… as it relates to her own experiences too.
YouTube – How it feels to have a stroke

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