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Sleep.

Aug 16, 2026

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buffer circuits, long-term memory, non-REM sleep, premotor activation, REM sleep, sleep, slow wave sleep

Sensory input is inhibited, and then reverberant, new sensory activations become permanent memories. Thereby, one’s map of the world, inclusive of oneself, is updated for the morrow. Motor output is inhibited, and then unused, preparatory motor reverberations are activated. Thereby, buffer circuits are emptied for the morrow.
The anatomy of the unconscious mind.

Oct 19, 2024

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acoustic startle, allocortex, amygdala, attachment, automatic movements, backward masking, basal ganglia, C-tactile neurones, cerebral cortex, cingulate cortex, colliculi, computer, corticofugal nerves, crossing over, CT neurones, dark arts, decussation, default mode network, Dissociable Contributions of the Human Amygdala and Orbitofrontal Cortex to Incentive Motivation and Goal Selection, 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, witchcraft

Unbeknown 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…
Conversation.

Jul 28, 2024

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A comparative study on parental language used by parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and typically developing children, acting, ADHD, aggressive mimicry, anxiety carrier state, arousal, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, avoidance, Bill Shankly, biological advantage, bluster, Bryson DeChambeau, child, children, circumlocution, clear the head, CNV, competitiveness, contingent negative variation, conversation, conversational narcissism, conversational turns, deception, Doppler effect, ensonification, errors of judgement, errors of judgment, face mask, flannel, forced sneezing, genetic causes of autism, genetic causes of schizophrenia, Gilbertian mimicry, human host, human parasite, implicature, interview technique, irritability, jitter, loneliness, long-term memory, malfeasance, misrepresentation, mobile phone, monologue, monotonic, monotonicity, mutual regression, Nash equilibrium, networking, nose picking, obsessionality, pets, phonolocation, plausible deniability, pregnant pause, prevarication, pseudo-conversation, regression., rhinotillexis, risks of autism, risks of schizophrenia, Rory McIlroy, seduction, self-reassurance, self-stimulation, sexual promise, shift response, sleep, soliloquy, stimulus-independent thought, support response, the centre of attention, The cortical generators of the contingent negative variation in humans: a study with subdural electrodes, the selfish gene, the sound of her own voice, the sound of his own voice, the sound of one’s own voice, thinking out loud, tit for tat, verbiage, working memory

Conversation normally starts with an alerting signal, so as to engage the attention of the intended collocutor. Absence of the alerting signal conveys that this is not going to be a conversation. Conversation normally includes listening pauses, the absence of which indicates that this is not a conversation: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”…
Conjunction of evolutionary, Dickensian, Shakespearean and synaptic perspectives.

Jul 9, 2024

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“double-blind”, “double-blind” trials, “hard-wired”, “hardwired”, “Mirror of the Mind” – Exploring Mentalization Across Parents of Typically and Atypically Developing Children, 1a sensory neurone, 7 tesla MRI scanner, A Tale of Two Cities, acoustic startle response, activation, ADHD, advertisements, advertising, aestivation, aggressive mimicry, ahem, alexithymia, alpha waves, ambivalence, anorexia, anorexia nervosa, anxiety, appetite centre, arousal, arthritis, ascending reticular formation, attention, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Auditory stream segregation in an insect, autism, back of the mind, backward masking, beat music, bereavement, bereitschaftspotential, beta waves, Bion, blushing, body temperature control, BP, brain stem, brain-waves, brainstem, Broca’s area, brush under the carpet, buffer circuits, bulimia, bulimia nervosa, careless driving, cerebral cortex, Charles Dickens, Charles VI of France, cognitive maps, Combined pattern of childhood psycho-behavioral characteristics in patients with schizophrenia: a retrospective study in Japan, come to mind, comorbidity, conduct disorder, contingent negative variation, contrarian, contrariety, contrariness, contrary, cortical myelin segmentation, cough, Cross-Modal Processing in Early Visual and Auditory Cortices depends on Expected Statistical Relationship of Multisensory Information, dangerous driving, dark arts, David Copperfield, debrief, default mode network, defence against schizophrenia, Delayed onset and resolution of pain: some observations and implications, delta waves, denial, depression, descending reticular formation, disinhibition, displacement, divorce, DMN, dominance hierarchy, Dr. Alexandre Manette, dry eyes, Dunbar’s number, early morning waking, eating disorders, echo neurones, echolocation, Ecological units: definitions and application, ecology, EEG, ego, electroencephalograph, ellipsis, elliptical, empathy, erubescence, evolution, excitation, eye drops, family meal, family 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tidiness, obsessionality, obsessive-compulsive disorder, occipital association cortex, one thing at a time, oppositional behaviour, orgasms, overbreathing, overload, PAG, Parallel Thalamocortical Pathways for Echolocation and Passive Sound Localisation in a Gleaning Bat Antrozous pallidus, paranoid, parasitic human, parasympathetic nerves, parietal association cortex, pecking order, pedantry, penis envy, percussion, periaqueductal grey matter, peristalsis, phonolocation, phylogeny, placebo effect, post-traumatic stress disorders, postsynaptic inhibition, prayer, pre-motor potential, predator, prefrontal association cortex, premotor activation, presynaptic inhibition, prey, Prey Responses to Predator’s Sounds: A Review and Empirical Study, prolactin, pronoia, pronoid, pseudo-conversation, psychosomatic, pushback, pushing back, Queen Victoria, radio frequency signals, REA, readiness potential, relaxation, repression, reticular activating system, reticular formation, reticular nerves, reticular nucleus of the thalamus, Rhesus monkeys Macaca mulatta know what others can and cannot hear, rhythm, right ear advantage, Right-lateralized pain processing in the human cortex: an FMRI study, risks of autism, risks of schizophrenia, sad, sadness, seasonal affective disorder, seduction, selective attention, self-stimulation, seven-day week, sexual equality, sexual promise, Single-neuron responses in humans during execution and observation of actions, Sir John Mandeville, skewness, sleep, sleep centre, smooth muscle, Some displacement activities of the black-headed gull, sounding out, sphenopalatine ganglion, sphincters, spinal cord, stimulus-independent thought, stochastic resonance, Stress inoculation therapy with anxiety and stress disorders of acute psychiatric inpatients., striated muscle, subliminal stimulation, supererogation, suppression, sweep under the rug, sympathetic nerves, synapse, Tactile Spatial Attention Enhances Gamma-Band Activity in Somatosensory Cortex and Reduces Low-Frequency Activity in Parieto-Occipital Areas, tearfulness, tears of joy, temporal association cortex, thalami, thalamus, The cortical generators of the contingent negative variation in humans: a study with subdural electrodes, The Dominance Hierarchy and the Evolution of Mental Illness, The hard work of doing nothing: Accounting for inhibitory costs during multiple action control, the little child inside a man, The post-orgasmic prolactin increase following intercourse is greater than following masturbation and suggests greater satiety, The Ritualization of Agonistic Behaviour as a Determinant of Variation along the Neuroticism/Stability Dimension of Personality, the sound of one’s own voice, theory of mind, theta waves, tit for tat, Trojan, ultradian rhythms, Understanding motor events: a neurophysiological study, unresponsiveness, uxorial, vertebrate, vibration, Wernicke’s area, Wilkins Micawber, William Shakespeare, winter depression, witchcraft, women’s liberation, work-life-balance, working memory, yoga, zoomorphism

The nerves of the brain may be activated or inhibited. Ideas are called to mind. Ideas are put to the back of the mind. Ideas come to mind unbidden. Ideas come to mind in response to perceptions, as apperceptions. Attention is activation of what is relevant and inhibition of what is not relevant. Inhibition may…

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