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and schizophrenics,
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Frontal lobotomy,
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,
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–
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Frost, Robert,
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Fukushima, Kunihiko,
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Futuristic fantasies,
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Galaxy Zoo project,
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Galileo Galilei,
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,
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,
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Gall, Franz Joseph,
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,
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,
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Galton, Francis,
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–
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,
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,
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,
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Gambling,
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and Pascal's Wager,
[>]
–
[>]

Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA),
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,
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Gauguin, Paul,
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Gauss, Carl,
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Geigy, J. R., pharmaceutical company,
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General intelligence as simplistic,
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Genes,
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and autism or schizophrenia,
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Bernal on future manipulation of,
[>]

and connectome,
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,
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,
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expressing of,
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and growth of axon,
[>]
–
[>]

Mendel's discovery of,
[>]

and neuronal connectome,
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neurons influenced by,
[>]

in study of
C. elegans,
[>]
–
[>]

and synapse creation,
[>]

in wiring of brain,
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,
[>]

Gene therapy,
[>]

for Parkinson's disease,
[>]

Genetic code,
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Genetic engineering, and mental disorders in animals,
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Genetic testing

on fetus,
[>]

for Huntington's disease (HD),
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–
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Genie (abused child),
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,
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,
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Genome,
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,
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,
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multiple meanings of,
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Genome, human

excerpt from,
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as explanation of differences,
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of fraternal twins,
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as unchangeable,
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,
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,
[>]

viewing of,
[>]

Genomics,
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–
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,
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,
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–
[>]

and autism or schizophrenia,
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–
[>]

and connectomes,
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progress of,
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,
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Giza, pyramid of,
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–
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Glial cells,
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Glutamate,
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,
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God

humanity making itself into (transhumanism),
[>]

and Pascal's Wager,
[>]
–
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Gödel, Kurt,
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Goldschmidt, Richard,
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Golgi, Camillo,
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,
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,
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,
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Golgi staining method,
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–
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Gould, Elizabeth,
[>]
,
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,
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Graham, Sonny,
[>]
–
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“Grand challenges,”
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“Grandmother cell” theory of perception,
[>]

Gray matter,
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,
[>]
,
[>]
.
See also
Cortex

Greeks (ancient), and Fates,
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Greenough, William,
[>]
,
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,
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,
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Grey, Aubrey de,
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Grossberg, Stephen,
[>]

“Growth cone,”
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Guerre, Martin,
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,
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Gujrat, Pakistan, shrine in,
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–
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Hall, David,
[>]
,
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,
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–
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Harris, Kristen,
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,
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,
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,
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Harvard University, ultramicrotome in,
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–
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,
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Harvey, Thomas,
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Hawking, Stephen,
[>]
–
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Hayek, Friedrich,
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Hayworth, Ken,
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–
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,
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–
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Heaven,
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as computer simulation,
[>]
–
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Hebb, Donald,
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Hebbian synaptic plasticity,
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,
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,
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,
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,
[>]
,
[>]

disabling of,
[>]

as learning,
[>]

and potential to learn,
[>]

variant of,
[>]

Hebbian strengthening,
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Heidelberg,
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Helmstaedter, Moritz,
[>]

Hemispherectomy,
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Hierarchical organization of neurons, in perception,
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and memory “grounding,”
[>]
–
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Hierarchical perceptron model for brain,
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Hippocampus,
[>]
,
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,
[>]

fluoxetine effect on,
[>]

posterior,
[>]

and schizophrenia,
[>]

study as enlarging,
[>]

“Hive mind,”
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Homunculus, motor or sensory,
[>]
–
[>]
,
[>]
,
[>]

Hubel, David,
[>]
,
[>]

Human Connectome Project,
[>]
,
[>]

Human Genome Project,
[>]
,
[>]
,
[>]

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),
[>]

Hume, David,
[>]

Huntington's disease (HD),
[>]
–
[>]
,
[>]

Huxley, Aldous,
[>]

HVC (region of bird brain),
[>]
–
[>]
,
[>]
,
[>]
,
[>]
–
[>]
,
[>]

Hypothermia, and memory,
[>]
–
[>]

Hypotheses, role of in science,
[>]

and tools of measurement,
[>]

I Am Your Child Foundation,
[>]

IBM, and Markram,
[>]

Ideas, abstract,
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Image analysis, automating of,
[>]

Imipramine,
[>]
–
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Immortality,
[>]
–
[>]

as information preservation,
[>]
–
[>]

Implicit (nondeclarative) memory,
[>]
–
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of birds,
[>]
–
[>]

acquisition of,
[>]
–
[>]

as synaptic chain,
[>]
–
[>]
,
[>]

Inbreeding,
[>]

Individual differences

and averages,
[>]

and brain,
[>]
,
[>]
,
[>]
,
[>]

connectionism as explaining,
[>]

connectomes as basis for,
[>]
–
[>]
,
[>]

and smaller connectomes,
[>]

between twins,
[>]

Inductive (“data-driven”) approach to science,
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Inferior colliculus,
[>]

Inferior parietal lobule,
[>]

Infinite regress, and neuronal explanation of perception,
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Information, self as,
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–
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Information theoretic death,
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Inherited traits, DNA as source of,
[>]
.
See also
Nature-nurture relation

Inhibition, need for,
[>]

Inhibitory neurons,
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–
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,
[>]

and divergent synaptic chains,
[>]

and sedatives,
[>]

Inhibitory synapses,
[>]
,
[>]

Insanity.
See
Mental disorders and disabilities; Schizophrenia

Intelligence,
[>]

and brain size

correlation between,
[>]

in Anatole France and Ivan Turgenev,
[>]
–
[>]

and Galton's approach,
[>]
–
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,
[>]

multiple,
[>]

Pearson's categorization of,
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Intelligence Amplification (IA),
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Intermarriage between cousins, and microcephaly,
[>]

Interneurons,
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Intracellular recording,
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–
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Inverted-image telescope experiment,
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Ion channel,
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,
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,
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,
[>]
,
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iPhone, as modern miracle,
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Iproniazid,
[>]
–
[>]

IQ

as simplistic,
[>]

frontal and parietal lobes correlated with,
[>]
–
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Irreversibility,
[>]
–
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Jain, Viren,
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–
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James, William,
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Jesuit maxim on childhood indoctrination,
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John the Baptist,
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Kandel, Eric,
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–
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,
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Kanizsa triangle,
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,
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–
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Kanner, Leo,
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–
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,
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Karten, Harvey,
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Kasparov, Garry,
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Kasthuri, Narayanan “Bobby,”
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Keith, Sir Arthur,
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Kelvin, Lord,
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Kennard Principle,
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Khufu (pharaoh),
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–
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Knives,
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Knott, Graham,
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Knudsen, Eric,
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–
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,
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Koch, Christof,
[>]

Koch, Robert,
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Koskinas, Georg,
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Kurzweil, Ray,
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,
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Labyrinth,
[>]
,
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Lander, Eric,
[>]

Language

Broca-Wernicke model of,
[>]
,
[>]
,
[>]

replacement for,
[>]

and hemispherectomy,
[>]

learning of in childhood,
[>]

by Genie,
[>]

in left hemisphere,
[>]

and stroke,
[>]

and synaptic chain,
[>]

Languages, lost,
[>]
–
[>]

Large Hadron Collider (LHC),
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Lashley, Karl,
[>]
–
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,
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,
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Las Vegas,
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Lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN),
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,
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Lateralization, cerebral,
[>]
,
[>]

Law of Dynamic Polarization,
[>]

Laws of Behavior Genetics,
[>]
,
[>]

Learning

and connectomes,
[>]

connectome change as cause,
[>]

critical period for,
[>]
–
[>]
,
[>]

and vision experiments,
[>]
–
[>]
,
[>]
,
[>]

as expansion of cortical areas,
[>]

and four R's of connectome change,
[>]
(
see also
Reconnection; Regeneration; Reweighting of synapse; Rewiring of brain)

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