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FreeMind - The Challenge of Mapping Your Brain

Having a map is essential for any new journey. But mapping the mind? What could this possibly be? The ones interested in taking full control over their thoughts and actions have surely found out about this revolutionary concept by now, because it is truly a concept that stands in the center of the latest brain struct...

29 October 2009
04:10 GMT

The Unusual Way to Create, Manage and Explore Mind Maps

Ever since ancient times, people have been trying to express their thoughts and feelings in various ways, and one of the most important is writing. But time passed by, technology evolved and soon we found out that computers could help us express our thoughts more than we even imagine. And this how came the idea to cr...

16 September 2009
12:31 GMT

A First Step Towards Reading Your Mind: Neural Patterns of Thoughts Determined by Computer Algorithm

In the end, your personality is made of thoughts. But how do thoughts look like? A team of researchers of Carnegie Mellon University has just tried to answer to this is in a research published in PLoS One. The study was made on 12 subjects enveloped in an MRI scanner, who were presented line drawings of 10 different ...

7 January 2008
05:06 GMT

Brainwashing: 6 Methods and 5 Ways to Avoid It

This has killed 6 million Jews during the Second World War. The virulent antisemitism was rooted in unchecked information pointing the Jews as the enemies, and their extermination was regarded as right. The brainwashing can go from visible signs like the swastika to more subtle ways, like bad jokes (you cannot imagin...

13 December 2007
14:06 GMT

Being Miffed: the American Case

"I don't give a s**t", "I don't give a f**k" are perhaps the most common lines in the American movies and society, too. But this fierce individualism determines an inability to understand other people's points of view. This contrasts with other cultures, like the Chinese one for example - in which peop...

20 July 2007
06:04 GMT

Why Does Meditation "Let Go" Negative Emotions?

Meditation is like training for your brain. It has been proven to increase sensory speed. And now, a new research has shown that if you name your emotions, you can handle them. Putting negative emotions into words seems to calm down the brain's emotion nuclei, explaining the main goal of the meditation: to "let...

2 July 2007
03:51 GMT

Why Are People Bubble-Headed?

Mind-wandering is too common to ignore.Admit that many times, instead of listening to boring classes you fantasized with a hot girl mate next to you or you imagined a crazy party... We all experience this, even if we struggle to avoid it. A new array of researches tries to shed light on this less investigated domain ...

20 March 2007
09:22 GMT


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