by Bor, Daniel
minimal
models. See Consciousness: theories
mystery of
neuronal signature of
neurotransmitters and
overabundance of
prefrontal parietal network and
as physical event. See also Mind-body duality
purpose of
qualitative vs. quantitative
quantifying
reducing
scanning
science of
self- See also Mirror-recognition test
signature of
stress and
subjectivity of
thalamus and
theories of
timescale of
unconscious mind and
utility of
visual cortex and
working memory and
Conscious control
boosting
limited
Cooperation in biology
Cortex
consciousness and
general-purpose
modern
motor
neurons and
rebuilding
stress and
Corvids
Crick, Francis
Cronin, Alison
Cronin, Jim
Crows. See also Corvids tools and
Culture
Curiosity
Damasio, Antonio
Dante
Darwin, Charles
Data
analysis. See also Information processing
compression of. See also Chunking
filtering. See also Attention
patterns/structure and
sensory
Davis, Matt
Dawkins, Richard
Daydreams
Death
barely dissociable from life
Decision making/decisions
CIA and
conscious
freedom of. See also Free will
knowing accuracy of perceptual
thoughts and
unconscious
Deep brain stimulation
Dehaene, Stanislas
Del Cul, Anthony
Delusions
Dementia
Dennett, Daniel
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). See also Genes
bacteria and
ideas in
inflexibility of
junk
language of
protein and
random mixing of
RNA and
sections of
viral donation/modification of
Depression
cognition and
sleep and
Descartes, René
consciousness and
Ghost in the Machine and
Cogito ergo sum of
mind-body duality and
subjectivity and
Descartes’ Error (Damasio)
Desimone, Bob
Development
of chunking skills
delays in autism
Diffusion tensor imaging
Digit sequences
chunking
limits in working memory
memorizing long
rehearsal impairing food decisions
subjects recalling during fMRI
synesthesia and
Tammet, Daniel, recalling during fMRI
Dijksterhuis, Ap
Discourse on the Method (Descartes)
Divine Comedy (Dante)
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (Bauby)
Dolphins
Dopamine
Drives, conscious or unconscious. See also Goals; Motivations
Drugs. See also Anesthesia; Antipsychotics; Arbaclofen; Coffee; Ritalin; Propofol; SSRIs; Zolpidem
addictive
anesthetic
antipsychotic
combining
ineffective
overdose
Dualism. See Mind-body duality
Early Start Denver Model
Echolocation
Edelman, David
Edelman, Gerald
Einstein, Albert
Electroencephalography (EEG)
Elephants
brain weight of
Elle magazine, Bauby and
Emergentism
Emotions
complex
computers and
depicting
evolutionary underpinnings of
handling
orbitofrontal cortex and
overestimating value of
signals from
unawareness of
Energy (metabolic demands)
conscious long-term saving of
Energy levels, feeling of
Environment
changing
control over
Epilepsy
Ericsson, K. Anders
Ether
Ethical questions, consciousness and
Evans, Joseph
Evolution
animals and
bacteria and
brain and
consciousness and
environmental niches and
essence of
fear and
genetic hypothesis-testing via
hardwiring and
information-processing and
internal
learning and
lesson of
replication and
scientific method and
Evolutionary pressure
Experience. See Consciousness
Faces, perception of
fusiform face area (FFA) and
Fears. See also Anxiety
Federer, Roger
Fedorikhin, Alexander
Feelings. See Emotions
Fernandez-Espejo, Davinia
Feynman, Richard
Feynman Lectures on Physics, The (Feynman)
Fiorito, Graziano
Fisher, Melissa
Fleming, Steve
Flexibility
complexity and
stability and
fMRI studies
Fovea
Free will
Frontal lobes. See also Prefrontal cortex
Fusiform face area (FFA)
Gage, Phineas
Gambling based on self-knowledge
Gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA)
Gamma rhythms, consciousness and
high gamma variant
Gazzaniga, Michael
Genes/Genetics
coding
collections of
combinations of
control
disorders of
Hox
as ideas
interaction of
language of
learning and
mutation-causing
similarities between consciousness and
Genetic disorders
Genius cells
Genomes
Ghost in the machine
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The (Larsson)
Gladwell, Malcolm
Global neuronal workspace model
Global workspace theory
Glutamate
Goals
biological
conscious minds and
consciousness and
unconscious
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Hofstadter)
Goodall, Jane
Gorillas
brain of
Gozal, David
Grammar
artificial
natural
Great Ape Project
Greenfield, Patricia
Habits
Hallucinations
Hanus, Daniel
Harlow, John
Haynes, John-Dylan
Heart disease
Heart rate
Hebb’s law
Hemispatial neglect. See Neglect
Hobbes, Thomas
Hofsta
dter, Douglas
Hogan, Krista and Tatiana (conjoined twins)
Holmes, Joni
Ideas. See also Beliefs
biological
DNA-based
levels of in nature
mental pyramid of
storing
Identity
confusable
genetic
lost due to stroke
Imagination
Inferotemporal cortex
Information
acquiring
analysis of
atoms of
brain process
carrying capacity
color based
combined
competing
complex
compressing
consciousness and
distribution of
fidelity of
flow of
hierarchy
increase in
input of
letters of in genetics
lower-level
manipulating
neurons and
physical structure of primordial life and
quantity of
redundancy in. See also Chunking
semi-chaotic activity and
sequence of
sharing
sources of
storing
streaming
visual
Information integration theory
Information processing
attention and
brain and
consciousness and
enhancing
levels of
unconsciousness and
Information structure. See also Structure
Innovations
chaotic
consciousness and
desperate times and
evolutionary
maximal
primate
spurious
tools of
Insanity
Instinct
language
Intellect
impoverished
Intelligence. See also IQ artificial
Interactions
neural
social
Internal worlds
IQ
ADHD and
autism and
Raven’s Progressive Matrices
Wechsler Intelligence Scales
Jackson, Frank
Jackson, Michael
James, Iain
Kahneman, Daniel
Kanai, Ryota
Kanzi (Savage-Rumbaugh and Lewin)
Kawachi, Ichiro
Keeling, Jeremy
Kelvin, Lord
Ketamine
Klingberg, Torkel
Knight, Bob
Knowledge
accumulating
consciousness and
hierarchy of
strength of
structured
unconscious
Kornell, Nate
Lamme, Victor
Language. See also Grammar; Speech
autism and
binary
body
brain and
chunking and
computers and
developmentally delayed
DNA
learning
production
Larsson, Stieg
Learning
anesthesia and
animal capacity for
avoiding physical damage by
collective
complex
consciousness and
evolution and
exploiting opportunities for
forms of
maximizing
memory and
permanence of
process
rudimentary
sleep required for effective
strategies. See also Chunking
unconscious
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Levin, Daniel
Lewin, Roger
Libet, Benjamin
Life. See also Organisms
death barely dissociable from
origins of
Limbic system
Logic
Logothetis, Nikos
Lucas, Michel
Luria, Alexander
Luzzatti, Claudio
Mandarin
Marslen-Wilson, William
Mary and knowing what it is like
Massimini, Marcello
Matata, story of
Mathematics and mental arithmetic
Matrix, The (film)
Meaning. See also Chinese Room argument
consciousness and
Medical Research Council (MRC), Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Medications. See Drugs
Meditation
brain changes and
consciousness and
long-term shifts from
working memory and
Meditations on First Philosophy (Descartes)
Memorization
Memory. See also Working memory
brain areas
chunks and. See also Chunking; Chunks
content
effective
learning and
long-term
