"Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this entertaining, data-rich talk he gives us a glimpse into how the brain creates the grace and agility of human motion."

"Neuroscientist David Eagleman explores the processes and skills of the subconscious mind, which our conscious selves rarely consider."

"Neuroscience is beginning to touch on questions that were once only in the domain of philosophers and psychologists, questions about how people make decisions and the degree to which those decisions are truly “free.” These are not idle questions. Ultimately, they will shape the future of legal theory and create a more biologically informed jurisprudence."

David Eagleman and Mysteries of the Brain. "Time is a dimension like any other, fixed and defined down to its tiniest increments: millennia to microseconds, aeons to quartz oscillations. Yet the data rarely matches our reality." from The New Yorker.

"We take visual imagination for granted. But the blank inner world of a patient called MX demonstrates the rich neural processes needed to create the images in our heads." from Discover.

"Troxler's fading has been attributed to adaptation of neurons in the visual system vital for perceiving a stimulus. It is part of the general principle in sensory systems that an unvarying stimulus soon disappears from our awareness." from Wikipedia.

"To investigate the neural substrates that underlie spontaneous musical performance, we examined improvisation in professional jazz pianists using functional MRI." from PLoS ONE.

When Rodrigo Quian Quiroga visited Jorge Luis Borges's private library, he found annotated books that bear witness to the writer's fascination for memory and neuroscience. from Nature.

Its mysterious power may be a clue to a new theory about brains and bodies. by Atul Gawande in The New Yorker.

Two groups of neuroscientists using MRI brain imaging announced last month that they were able to see changes inside the brains of people after mastering a new skill. The big surprise is that the part of the brain that changed has no neurons or synapses in it! The cerebral remodeling during learning was seen in the mysterious and still largely unexplored “white matter” region of the brain. from Scientific American.

Spontaneous, fluid, even riotous creativity is a natural part of the design of the mind.

When we repress our urge to confabulate we also repress the urge to create.

What has been variously referred to as the novel of consciousness or the psychological or confessional novel—the novel, at any rate, about the workings of a mind—has transformed itself into the neurological novel, wherein the mind becomes the brain.

Play is the hallmark of the paradoxically useful uselessness of extended immaturity.

It might seem precarious to have a brain that plunges randomly into periods of instability, but the disorder is actually essential to the brain's ability to transmit information and solve problems.

energetic and flexible. from new scientist.

brain growth and differentiation. from new scientist.

creative economy, conceptual age. from nyt.

can a thinking, remembering, decision-making, biologically accurate brain be built from a supercomputer?

and the workings of the human brain.

parceling the brain into cognitive and affective regions is inherently problematic.

inspired by research from neuroscience, dissection and neuroeconomics.

nature's grand experiment with moral animals.