Tag
Neuroscience
Entries tagged neuroscience.
6 entries
Gate Control Theory of Pain
Pain is not a direct readout of injury but a signal a spinal gate can amplify or dampen, which is why rubbing a hurt helps and why a lost limb can still ache.
7 min
ConceptLocalization of Function
The claim that specific mental functions are carried out by specific, identifiable parts of the brain.
8 min
ConceptNeuroplasticity
The brain's lifelong capacity to reorganize its own structure and connections in response to experience, injury, and use.
8 min
ConceptSleep and Dreaming
Sleep is a structured, actively regulated brain state cycling through distinct stages, and dreams are the mind's activity within it, explained by rival theories no one has settled.
10 min
Thought experimentSplit-Brain Research
When the cable joining the two hemispheres is cut, each half of the brain can perceive, decide, and act on its own, and the talking half calmly invents reasons for what the mute half just did.
8 min
ConceptTheories of Color Vision
Two rival accounts of how the eye sees color, three receptor types versus opposed color pairs, that modern neuroscience shows are both right, at different stages of the visual pathway.
6 min