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The anatomy of the unconscious mind.
acoustic startle, allocortex, amygdala, attachment, automatic movements, basal ganglia, C-tactile neurones, cerebral cortex, cingulate cortex, colliculi, computer, corticofugal nerves, crossing over, CT neurones, dark arts, decussation, default mode network, DMN, double take, Dynamic organization of the somatosensory cortex induced by motor activity, Exposure to subliminal arousing stimuli induces robust activation in the amygdala hippocampus anterior cingulate insular cortex and primary visual cortex A systematic meta-analysis of fMRI studies, eyeblink startle, fasciculus cuneatus, fasciculus gracilis, Galen, gate, gating, geniculate bodies, high-pass filter, hippocampus, innate alarm system, inner ear, insula, internal hardware, Kinaesthetic role of muscle afferents in man studied by tendon vibration and microneurography, lateral lemniscus, lateral tectobulbar tract, limbic system, magnetic field, medial lemniscus, medial tectobulbospinal tract, mesocortex, microneurography, mind’s ear, mind’s eye, mobile phone, muscle spindles, Neanderthals, occipital cortex, optic chiasm, orbitofrontal cortex, oval window, Papez circuit, parasympathetic nerves, posterior column, predorsal fascicle, Psychology of Music C E Seashore 1938, radio frequency signals, reticular activating system, reticular formation, reticular nerves, septal nuclei, sleep, spinothalamic tract, Spontaneous middle ear muscle activity in man: a rapid eye movement sleep phenomenon, stapedius, stapes, subliminal advertisements, subliminal advertising, sympathetic nerves, temporal cortex, tensor tympani muscles, The activity of the stapedius muscle in man during vocalization, Two Visual Systems Science 1969, vagus nerve, ventral posterior medial nucleus of the thalamus, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, What the bat’s voice tells the bat’s brain, witchcraftUnbeknown to us, the tone of our somatic muscles is varied through muscle spindles, which is why we get tension headaches unexpectedly. Lateralised headaches have followed the use of mobile ‘phones, perhaps due to activation of muscle spindles by magnetic fields, from internal hardware and from radio frequency signals. Symmetrical headaches have followed the use…
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Figures of speech, periphrases, parapraxes, and solecisms.
adaptation, adaptive simulation, altruism, Batesian mimicry, bona fide, borrow (linguistics), Cellular networks underlying human spatial navigation, chlorobutanol, Choosing Where to Attend and the Medial Frontal Cortex: An fMRI Study Journal of Neurophysiology, circumlocution, Comparison of the Distributions of Urocortin Containing and Cholinergic Neurons in the Perioculomotor Midbrain of the Cat and Macaque, cooperation, Diagnostic Yield of Chromosomal Microarray Analysis in a Cohort of Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorders from a Highly Consanguineous Population, disambiguation of kindling, euphemism, excitement, Experimental peripheral administration of oxytocin elevates a suite of cooperative behaviours in a wild social mammal, figures of speech, fluctuating asymmetry, Freudian slip, frontal, genetics, group selection, Hamilton’s rule, head direction cells, How many for dinner? Recruitment and monitoring by glances in capuchins, human oestrus, hyperbole, hypomania, inclusive fitness, insula, Intrasexual competition and sexual selection in cooperative mammals, litotes, loanword, malapropism, mania, mathematics, Müllerian mimicry, metaphor, metonymy, misnomer, Motor cortex maps articulatory features of speech sounds, oxymoron, oxytocin, parapraxis, Perioculomotor cell groups in monkey and man defined by their histochemical and functional properties: Reappraisal of the Edinger-Westphal nucleus, periphrasis, personification, place cells, prefrontal, psychoanalysis, refractory period, Secondary sex ratios and male lifespan: Damaged or culled cohorts, Selfishness as second-order altruism, signal-to-noise-ratio, solecism, Spatial remapping of touch: Confusion of perceived stimulus order across hand and foot, tautology, taxi, The evolutionary diagnosis of mental disorder, The future of theoretical evolutionary game theory, The Royal Society, Tracking the Fear Engram: The Lateral Amygdala Is an Essential Locus of Fear Memory Storage, underdiagnosis, understatement, X chromosome inactivationFigures of speech are inadvertent social information about the user until proven otherwise: they are particularly misplaced at work, where they reduce signal relative to noise, usually because the operative wishes to bring something of himself or herself to the format. The use of metaphor indicates lack of substance until proven otherwise, such as advising…
To be or not to be. 