http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=london-taxi-memory&WT.mc_id=SA_DD_...

http://plus.maths.org/content/uncoiling-spiral-maths-and-hallucinations
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> > It uses some maths developed by Alan Turing for simulating the development of patterned animal coats.
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> > I couldn't find a thread on NDEs but this seemed an appropriate one. The article is facinating, but I didn't see that the patterns fit the description of a tunnel leading to a very bright light, as many NDE'sreport.-Here is an article that may explain some of the NDE experience through brain chemistry. Again the authors refer to hallucinations, and that is fine but nothing in this article explains third-party corroboration of events or the fact that new and true information can be learned by the NDE'er during the esperience.-http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=peace-of-mind-near-death

http://plus.maths.org/content/uncoiling-spiral-maths-and-hallucinations
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> It uses some maths developed by Alan Turing for simulating the development of patterned animal coats.
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> I couldn't find a thread on NDEs but this seemed an appropriate one. The article is facinating, but I didn't see that the patterns fit the description of a tunnel leading to a very bright light, as many NDE'sreport.

While I agree that the study is fascinating, and that children who are read to have higher IQ's, I am not certain how the first article supports, or even relates, to that observation as it is focused on highly charged emotional events creating new neurons.
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> You are right. But what the overall impression suggests is the true plasticity of the brain early in life, and the unlikelihood that artificial intelligence science will ever equal the input and output of the human brain. Can a computer change its synapses?-I think the Big Blue project from IBM had something similar to that process in its architecture. Not that it will compete with the human brain, but I know they are at least attempting to compensate for it. The simple truth is that we are wonderfully made. (Regardless of whether we believe in Chance, Jehovah, Allah, Brahma, Kronos, or Ra...)

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/14/new-neurons-help-to-remember-fear/
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> > Fascinating study, which supports the observation that very young children, who are read to by their mothers have a higher IQ.
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> > Here is a study on fetal and newborn retinal activity and the brain:
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> > http://the-scientist.com/2011/07/01/foresight/
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> > Schatz is a most admirable woman.
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> While I agree that the study is fascinating, and that children who are read to have higher IQ's, I am not certain how the first article supports, or even relates, to that observation as it is focused on highly charged emotional events creating new neurons.-You are right. But what the overall impression suggests is the true plasticity of the brain early in life, and the unlikelihood that artificial intelligence science will ever equal the input and output of the human brain. Can a computer change its synapses?

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/14/new-neurons-help-to-remember-fear/
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> Fascinating study, which supports the observation that very young children, who are read to by their mothers have a higher IQ.
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> Here is a study on fetal and newborn retinal activity and the brain:
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> http://the-scientist.com/2011/07/01/foresight/
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> Schatz is a most admirable woman.-
While I agree that the study is fascinating, and that children who are read to have higher IQ's, I am not certain how the first article supports, or even relates, to that observation as it is focused on highly charged emotional events creating new neurons.

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/14/new-neurons-help-to-remember-fear/-Fascinating study, which supports the observation that very young children, who are read to by their mothers have a higher IQ.-Here is a study on fetal and newborn retinal activity and the brain:-http://the-scientist.com/2011/07/01/foresight/-Schatz is a most admirable woman.