Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment. All perception involves signals in the nervous system.

 

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Consciousness Overview

What is Consciousness? How many different scientific fields and approaches are being done in order to understand it? Integration seems to be key.
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Time Slices: How we process reality

Time is not processed as a continuous stream of events. Therefore, our brain scans the input from the environment in slices of time.
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Updating the Traditional Human Senses

Nowadays, it is inaccurate to determine that the human body has only 5 senses. So here is a brief list that goes from proprioception to psychic phenomena.
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Neuroscience of Consciousness

Neuroscience has the pole position regarding the understanding of consciousness; 3 insightful theories uncover some of our unconscious actions.
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Zen and Meditation

Insights about the scientific discoveries regarding the effects of meditation on the brain, mind and well being. Origins and characteristics of Zen.