Tag Archives: neuroplasticity

Seeing sometimes really is believing

The McGurk Effect: “The visual information a person gets from seeing a person speak changes the way they hear the sound.”  The video below demonstrates this illusion with the sound  ’ba’ that becomes heard as ‘fa’ when the movement of … Continue reading

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Parenting: What’s the Father-Child Bond have to do with it?

A very interesting post on Dr. Marsha Lucas’s blog, ReWire Your Brain for Love®, caught my eye but because of work on my new business site, Ottawa Family Mediation, I only got around to reading it today.  The blog post … Continue reading

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“Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain. . .”

“Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness” is the title of a new book by Alva Noë, a philosopher at the University of California at Berkeley, that was published … Continue reading

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Interdependence

“Mind boggling, how interdependent we are.” The human brain takes up 2% of the body’s weight yet requires about 25% of its oxygen. The number of states the brain is capable of at any given moment is 1 followed by … Continue reading

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Music & Brain Disorders

Oliver Sacks has a translated article in the German newspaper, Frankfurter Rundschau, simply entitled “Holiday Sounds”.  It’s an anecdotal piece about cases he’s observed of patients with the most severe brain disorders who still respond to music.  Here are some … Continue reading

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“The Political Brain”…

…is the title of a book by Drew Westen, professor of psychology at Emory University, that was initially published in 2007.  The book is subtitled “The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation”. Here are some excerpts … Continue reading

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