Sergei Korolev was a Soviet spacecraft designer and rocket engineer who played an important role during the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States of America in the 1950s and 1960s.He was largely responsible for developing the R-7 Rocket and launching Yuri Gagarin into space.Sergei Korolev also launched Belka, Strelka, and Laika into space.

May 23, 2022 · An Intro to Entropy for Neuroscientists and Psychologists Entropy is a confusing concept, but it can be a powerful quantitative tool. ... This is …

Sep 10, 2019 · In an attempt to get everyone on the same page, he is heading the first intensive research collaboration between neuroscientists and philosophers, backed by $7 million from two private foundations ...

Antonio Damasio (Portuguese: António Damásio) is a Portuguese-American neuroscientist.He is currently the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California, and, additionally, an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute. He was previously the chair of neurology at the University of …

May 23, 2019 · Animal rights activism is based on the idea that animals are sentient and that speciesism is wrong, the former of which is scientifically backed — an international panel of neuroscientists ...

May 06, 2015 · Pleasure is mediated by well-developed mesocorticolimbic circuitry, and serves adaptive functions. In affective disorders anhedonia (lack of pleasure) or dysphoria (negative affect) can result from breakdowns of that hedonic system. Human neuroimaging studies indicate that surprisingly similar circuitry is activated by quite diverse pleasures, suggesting a …

Jul 26, 2017 · A new study suggests that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive, degenerative brain disease found in people with a history of repeated head trauma, may be more common among football players than previously thought. The study, published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), found CTE in 99 percent of brains …

Jun 01, 2020 · A close brush can leave a lasting mental legacy—and may tell us about how the mind functions under extreme conditions

The famous ‘London taxi driver experiments’ found that memorising large maps caused the hippocampus to expand in size. Williams says that the reverse is going to happen if we don’t use our brain and memory to navigate. “Our brains are just like our muscles. We ‘use it or lose it’ – in other words, if we use navigation devices for ...

Summary: A famous experiment of Benjamin Libet and his colleagues has been interpreted as showing that our brains initiate voluntary movements before we are aware of having decided to move, and that this calls into question the efficacy of our wills. These claims have been contested by many neuroscientists and philosophers.

Feb 09, 2012 · People can easily read passages in which the letters are in the wrong order in words, as well as passages in which many letters are …

Apr 11, 2008 · The work calls into question the ‘consciousness’ of our decisions and may even challenge ideas about how ‘free’ we are to make a choice at a particular point in time.

Apr 28, 2022 · When foragers returned to the hive, they performed the famous waggle dance, letting other foragers know through bouts of vigorous shaking about the location of food sources. The researchers found that when bees danced, dopamine levels were high—as high as they were in bees heading out in search of food. ... Many neuroscientists are not ...

Mar 27, 2022 · This story is a take on the famous thought experiment from 1986, "What Mary Didn't Know," by philosopher Frank Jackson, and the intangible piece of knowledge about red that Mary just gathered is ...