Word: mentalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Under penalty of death, whoever was guarding Wheeler was to prevent her from shooting the three," Delaney-Smith said. "It was a mental breakdown on our part...
After about two years of work, Harvard researchers in the departments of psychology, neurology and radiology have confirmed that the same area of the brain is indeed stimulated for both sight and mental visualization. The results were published in last week's issue of the journal Nature...
Obtaining an answer to such questions may seem easy, but defining the mental processes involved in such visually-based judgments have been a source of debate among philosophers and scientists for centuries...
...central question has been whether the brain actually forms a mental picture of objects, "looking" at them with the metaphorical "mind's eye," or whether it makes such determinations solely based on non-visual means...
...show that even when your eyes are closed, visual mental imagery activates visual areas [of the brain]," said Dr. Stephen M. Kosslyn, lead researcher of the study, in an e-mail message. "And it activates them in different ways, depending on the size of the visualized object--in a manner that is similar to what occurs in vision proper [normal sight...