“We grieve by calling up one memory at a time, reliving it, and then letting it go. At a brain level we are turning on each of the neural networks that were wired together to form our perception of the person, experiencing the memory with exceptional vividness, then saying goodbye one network at a time. [...]
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“The Brain That Changes Itself” by Norman Doidge
Posted in Neuroplasticity, Neuroscience on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Synaptic Self” by Joseph LeDoux
Posted in Neuroscience, tagged Neuroscience on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“What a person is, and what he or she thinks, feels, and does, is by no stretch of the imagination influenced only by consciousness. Many of our thoughts, feelings, and actions take place automatically, with consciousness only coming to know them as they happen, if at all. Figuring out the mechanism of consciousness would surely [...]
