by Dean Burnett
boosting power of 1 (see also intelligence) and pharmaceuticals 1
and transcranial direct-current stimulation (tCDS) 1
and brainwaves 1 (see also sleep)
and control of others 1 door-in-face technique 1, 2
foot-in-door technique 1, 2
impression management 1
low-ball technique 1
reciprocity 1
and relationships 1
and delusions, see delusions
and drug addiction 1
and ego 1, 2
fight-or-flight response in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (see also fear)
and Gage 1
and group dynamics 1, 2 and bystander effect 1
and group polarisation 1
and groupthink 1
and hallucinations, see hallucinations
and language processing 1, 2, 3, 4 and NLP 1
and London taxi drivers 1
and memory, see memory
and mental health, see mental health
motion sickness created by 1 lack of 1
at sea 1
and motivation’s origin 1
neurons in, see neurons
and neuroplasticity 1, 2
and nutrition 1
observation by 1 attention 1
hearing 1, 2
proprioception 1, 2
smell 1
taste 1
touch 1, 2
vision 1
other people’s influence on 1 facial expression 1, 2
non-verbal communication 1, 2
pattern recognition by 1, 2
and personality types 1 (see also personality)
and pronounced locus of control 1
redundancy built into 1
scans 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8n
‘selves’ within 1
size of 1
and sleep, see sleep
structure of:
amygdala 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
anterior cingulate cortex 1, 2, 3
anterior cingulate gyrus 1
anterior hippocampus 1
auditory cortex 1
brainstem 1, 2
Broca’s area 1, 2, 3
caudate nucleus 1
cerebrum 1, 2
corpus callosum 1
dorsal cingulate cortex 1
frontal cortex 1, 2, 3, 4
frontal lobe 1, 2, 3
fusiform gyrus 1
hippocampus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
hormone-regulating areas 1
hypothalamic–pituitary–
adrenal (HPA) axis 1, 2, 3
hypothalamus 1
inferior frontal gyrus 1
inferior temporal gyrus 1
limbic system 1, 2
lingual gyrus 1
medial insula 1
mesolymbic (‘reward’)
pathway 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
mid-cingulate gyrus 1
middle temporal gyrus 1
motor cortex 1, 2, 3
neocortex 1, 2, 3
nucleus accumbens 1
occipital lobe 1, 2
orbitofrontal cortex 1, 2, 3
parietal lobe 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
periaqueductal grey 1
pineal gland 1
posterior cingulate gyrus 1
posterior hippocampus 1
posterior parietal cortex 1
prefrontal cortex 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
pulvinar nucleus 1
putamen 1, 2, 3
‘reptile’ brain 1, 2, 3
sensory cortex 1, 2
somatosensory cortex 1, 2, 3
substantia nigra 1
superior colliculus 1
superior temporal gyrus 1
supramarginal gyrus 1
temporal lobes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
thalamus 1, 2, 3
vagus nerve 1
ventral tegumental area 1
visual cortex 1, 2
Wernicke’s area 1, 2
superior intelligence of, in humans, see intelligence
surgery on 1
of taxi drivers 1
and treating others badly 1 Milgram experiment
concerning 1
white matter in 1, 2, 3
brainstem 1, 2
Broca, Pierre Paul 1
Broca’s area 1, 2, 3
bulimia 1
Burke, Edmund 1
Bush, George W. 1
bystander effect 1
cannabis 1
caudate nucleus 1
cerebrum 1, 2
Challenger shuttle 1
change blindness 1
circadian rhythms 1
cochlea 1
cocktail-party effect 1, 2
comfort eating 1
compliments, see criticism vs praise
confirmation bias 1
conspiracy theories 1, 2
corpus callosum 1
cortisol 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
counterfactual thinking 1, 2
covert and overt orientation 1
creationism 1n
criticism vs praise 1
deindividuation 1
delusions 1, 2 Capgras 1
forms of 1
dementia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6 (see also mental health) and depression 1
dichotic listening 1
diet and eating 1 and appetite 1
for comfort 1
cooked vs raw 1
disorders concerning 1
habits 1
and learned associations 1
and taste vs vision 1
dopamine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
dorsal cingulate cortex 1
driving, and attention 1
dualism 1, 2
Dunning–Kruger effect 1, 2
eardrum 1
ego 1, 2
Einstein, Albert 1, 2
endaural phenomena 1
endorphins 1n, 2
epilepsy 1, 2, 3n, 4
exploding head syndrome 1
extra-ocular muscles 1 (see also vision)
Eysenck, Hans J. 1
fear 1, 2, 3 and conspiracy theories 1, 2
and horror movies 1, 2
love of 1
and panic attacks 1
and phobias/social anxieties 1
and social anxieties/phobias 1 parenting’s contribution to 1
and superstition 1
and video games 1, 2
fight-or-flight response 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (see also fear)
fingerprints 1
Flynn effect 1
fovea 1, 2
Freud, Sigmund 1, 2, 3
frontal cortex 1, 2, 3, 4
frontal lobe 1, 2, 3
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) 1, 2
fusiform gyrus 1
Genovese, Kitty 1
ghrelin 1
glutamate 1
goal orientation 1
groupthink 1
Guardian, comments on website of 1
hallucinations 1, 2 auditory 1, 2
and illusions 1n
olfactory 1
Hawking, Stephen 1
hedonic principle 1
hibernation 1
hippocampus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
hormone-regulating areas 1
hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis 1, 2, 3
hypothalamus 1
‘In the Face of Fear’ 1 (see also fear)
illusions: and hallucinations 1n
olfactory 1
inferior frontal gyrus 1
inferior temporal gyrus 1
inner ear 1
intelligence 1 boosting 1 and pharmaceuticals 1
and transcranial direct-current stimulation (tCDS) 1
and brain size 1
counterintuitive nature of 1, 2
crystallised 1, 2, 3
and culture 1
and factor analysis 1, 2, 3
fluid 1, 2,
3, 4 ‘fixing’ of 1
in footballers 1
heritability of 1
and impostor syndrome 1
and IQ 1, 2, 3, 4 and physical height 1
Spearman’s analysis of 1
and manipulation of information 1
measuring 1
and metacognitive ability 1
and nutrition 1
and physical height 1, 2, 3
and preconceptions 1
Primary Mental Abilities of 1
and savants 1
and Spearman’s g 1, 2
types of 1
worldwide growth of 1
Internet 1, 2, 3, 4
Introduction to Personality (Phares, Chaplin) 1
jet-lag 1
jobs, types and nature of 1
‘just world’ hypothesis 1
Kingston, Miles 1
Koontz, Dean 1
Kpelle tribe 1
leptin 1
limbic system 1, 2
lingual gyrus 1
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Sacks) 1
Maslow, Abraham 1
medial insula 1
melatonin 1
memory 1 alcohol as aid to 1
brain edits 1
computer memory contrasted with 1
and ego-bias 1
and encoding 1
episodic/autobiographical 1
of faces vs names 1
false 1
‘flashbulb’, after trauma 1, 2
going wrong 1
and hindsight 1
long-term, short-term versus 1, 2
primacy effect of 1
recall threshold of 1
recency effect of 1
semantic 1
short-term (‘working’) 1, 2 long-term versus 1, 2
and sleep 1
and smell 1
and stroke 1
mental health 1 and antidepressants 1, 2
and death 1, 2
and depression 1, 2 and downward spiral 1
and sleep 1
and suicide 1
and disorders: controversy surrounding 1
defined 1
and life-change units 1
nervous breakdowns 1
and post-traumatic stress disorder 1
and stress 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
mesolymbic (‘reward’) pathway 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
‘Mexican brainwave’ 1
mid-cingulate gyrus 1
middle temporal gyrus 1
Milgram, Stanley 1
Miller’s law 1
Milligan, Spike 1
monoamine hypothesis 1
Monty Python’s Flying Circus 1n
motion sickness 1 lack of 1
at sea 1
motor cortex 1, 2, 3
multitasking 1
musical ear syndrome 1
Myers–Briggs Type Inventory (MTBI) 1
NASA 1
needs, hierarchy of 1
negging 1
neocortex 1, 2, 3
nervous system 1 autonomic 1
neurons in, see neurons
peripheral 1
somatic 1
sympathetic/parasympathetic 1, 2
neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) 1 (see also brain: and language processing)
neurons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 light-detecting 1
(see also vision) ‘mirror’ 1
and neuroplasticity 1, 2
olfactory 1
and synapses 1, 2, 3
neurotransmitters 1
Nietzsche, Friedrich 1
nootropics 1
noradrenalin 1
nucleus accumbens 1
nystagmus 1, 2
occipital lobe 1, 2
Office for National Statistics 1
olfactory system 1
operant condition 1
optic nerve 1, 2 (see also vision)
optokinetic reflex 1 (see also vision)
orbitofrontal cortex 1, 2, 3
overt and covert orientation 1
oxytocin 1, 2
parallax 1 (see also vision)
parietal lobe 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Parkinson’s disease 1, 2
Patient HM 1, 2
Patient X 1
Pavlov’s dogs 1
periaqueductal grey 1
personality 1 and anger 1 persistence of 1
as threat response 1
(see also fight-or-flight response)
usefulness of 1
Big 5 traits of 1, 2
and factor analysis 1
and brain configuration 1
and Gage 1 (see also Gage, Phineas)
genetic factors underlying 1
and humour 1 brain regions implicated in 1
and sign language 1
surprise as element of 1, 2
and motivation 1 extrinsic vs intrinsic 1
and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs 1
sex as 1
tests 1, 2
Types A and B 1
Phares, E. Jerry 1
pheromones 1n
phobias, see fear
photoreceptors 1, 2 (see also vision)
pineal gland 1
pleasure principle 1
pleiotropy 1
posterior cingulate gyrus 1
posterior hippocampus 1
posterior parietal cortex 1
praise vs criticism 1
prefrontal cortex 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
proprioception 1, 2
psychosis 1, 2, 3, 4
pulvinar nucleus 1
putamen 1, 2, 3
Pygmalion effect 1
Rain Man 1
‘reptile’ brain 1, 2, 3
retina 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 fovea in 1, 2
and 3D images 1
Rorschach test 1
Rosen, Howard 1
saccades 1 (see also vision)
Sapir–Whorf hypothesis 1
Saw 1
seasickness 1
‘seeing stars’ 1 (see also vision)
self-awareness 1
self-confidence 1
self-determination 1
self-discrepancy theory 1
self-image 1, 2, 3
self-worth 1, 2
senses 1 (see also individual senses) mechanical 1
sensory cortex 1, 2
serotonin 1, 2
sex, as motivator 1
sleep 1 artificial light’s effects on 1
and depression 1
and dreams 1, 2
duration of 1
and hibernation 1
and hypnic jerk 1
and jet-lag 1
and memory 1
in nonhuman animals 1
NREM period of 1
paralysis during 1
and predators 1
REM period of 1, 2, 3, 4
stages of 1, 2
walking during 1
social learning 1
somatosensory cortex 1, 2, 3
somatosensory system 1
Stanford Prison experiment 1
stress 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
substantia nigra 1
superior colliculus 1
superior temporal gyrus 1
superstition 1
supramarginal gyrus 1
synaesthesia 1
taste, vs vision 1
temporal lobes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
thalamus 1, 2, 3
Theory of Multiple Intelligences (Gardner) 1
3D 1 (see also vision)
transcranial direct-current stimulation (tCDS) 1
UK Mental Health 1
vagus nerve 1
ventral tegumental area 1
vestibular system 1
vestibulocochlear nerve 1
vision 1 and attention 1
and creationism 1n
and extra-ocular muscles 1
and motion sickness 1
peripheral 1
and saccades 1
and ‘seeing stars’
1
vs taste 1
visual cortex 1, 2
walking: as exercise 1
and lack of motion sickness, see motion sickness
Wernicke, Carl 1
Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome 1
Wernicke’s area 1, 2
Williams, Robin 1
Zeigarnik effect 1
About the Author
Dr Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist working as a tutor and lecturer based at Cardiff University’s Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences. He dabbles in stand-up comedy and writes a popular science blog, ‘Brain Flapping’, for the Guardian.
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