Neuroscience has shown that all thoughts and behaviors are associated with neural activity within the brain.
And we certainly won't make any progress so long as we think consciousness is identical with neural activity.
It might unlock the mental prisons of people apparently in comas, who nevertheless show some signs of neural activity.
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Almost immediately, researchers discovered something new: the first signs of a universal architecture of brain connections underlying most day-to-day neural activity.
These findings strongly link increasing neural activity to the buildup of amyloid-beta.
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When buyers choose a brand they really care about, neural activity suggests that they are making an emotional choice based on past experience, says Steven P.
They found that people with symptoms of dyslexia showed less neural activity in parts of the brain that are vital to reading (in the temporal lobe).
They used a technique called transcranial direct current stimulation, or tDCS. If you pass a weak electrical current through part of the brain, it temporarily and safely disrupts neural activity.
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Researchers measured the viewers' neural activity as they watched.
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When neuroscientists talk about the link between neural activity and conscious thoughts, he says, they're not claiming that the bits of the brain that light up in scans are synonymous with the mind.
How is information coded in neural activity?
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It sends data to iPhones (Android's in development) running the Melon app, which translates that info into a focus graph -- generally speaking, the higher the neural activity in your pre-frontal cortex, the higher your level of focus.
Attuned to the activity between neurons, a neural implant can essentially "listen" to your brain activity and then "talk" directly to your brain.
Conversely, when participants that returned the expected amount were asked how they would feel if they returned less money, activity in the neural structure underlying guilt intensified.
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In March 2012, the Allen Institute for Brain Science embarked upon a ten-year project to understand the neural code: how brain activity leads to perception, decision making, and ultimately action.
Think of consciousness and will as something that emerges from the activity of billions of neural connections, similar to how a national economy emerges from billions of different business transactions.
The Brain Activity Map project could help, for instance, look at the neural connections involved in brushing teeth.
Adrian Cheng invented a powerful non-invasive, high-speed microscope technology for imaging the activity of thousands of cells in the brain simultaneously, in real time, offering a view of neural circuits at work.
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