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Areas of the brain triggered by difference senses

Monday, 27 Oct 2014, 12:29
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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Wednesday, 29 Oct 2014, 09:28
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Fig.1. Wellcome Foundation

Should anyone suggest to you that you are left or right brained then go to the Wellcome Foundation and look at this extraordinary artwork: 3d expressions of the parts of the brain triggered when a person smells different things.

Learning is the same.

Whilst drawing upon or from increasingly recognised common parts of the brain, the brain, in using and creating memories taps into multiple and diverse areas - some of them unique to the person. I smell mothballs I immediately recall 'sleeping over' as a boy at my granny's house.

Tags: neuroscience, wellcome foundation, senses, fmri scan
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The Cognitive Interview

Thursday, 13 May 2010, 15:45
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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Thursday, 13 May 2010, 16:04

Pure serendipity but I have caught this documentary twice in the last couple of weeks on UK terrestrial TV.

So insightful on the way the human mind works. How such tiny nuances of sensory information can help us recollect genuine memories ... or to create false memories.

There is relevance here.

How does the mind gather and retain and use information ? And how can the trivial take on extraordinary importance. And importantly, what is the effect of online-learning that deprives us of some important memory-binding tools.

What do you think?

Tags: investigation, learning, e-learning, bbc, perception, senses, tv, crime, itv, cognitive interview
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