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visual cortex and
 
working memory and
 
Conscious control
 
boosting
 
limited
 
Cooperation in biology
 
Cortex
 
consciousness and
 
general-purpose
 
modern
 
motor
 
neurons and
 
rebuilding
 
stress and
 
Corvids
 
Crick, Francis
 
Cronin, Alison
 
Cronin, Jim
 
Crows
. See also
Corvids tools and
 
Culture
 
Curiosity
 
 
Damasio, Antonio
 
Dante
 
Darwin, Charles
 
Data
 
analysis.
See also
Information processing
 
compression of.
See also
Chunking
 
filtering.
See also
Attention
 
patterns/structure and
 
sensory
 
Davis, Matt
 
Dawkins, Richard
 
Daydreams
 
Death
 
barely dissociable from life
 
Decision making/decisions
 
CIA and
 
conscious
 
freedom of.
See also
Free will
 
knowing accuracy of perceptual
 
thoughts and
 
unconscious
 
Deep brain stimulation
 
Dehaene, Stanislas
 
Del Cul, Anthony
 
Delusions
 
Dementia
 
Dennett, Daniel
 
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
See also
Genes
 
bacteria and
 
ideas in
 
inflexibility of
 
junk
 
language of
 
protein and
 
random mixing of
 
RNA and
 
sections of
 
viral donation/modification of
 
Depression
 
cognition and
 
sleep and
 
Descartes, René
 
consciousness and
 
Ghost in the Machine and
 
Cogito ergo sum
of
 
mind-body duality and
 
subjectivity and
 
Descartes’ Error
(Damasio)
 
Desimone, Bob
 
Development
 
of chunking skills
 
delays in autism
 
Diffusion tensor imaging
 
Digit sequences
 
chunking
 
limits in working memory
 
memorizing long
 
rehearsal impairing food decisions
 
subjects recalling during fMRI
 
synesthesia and
 
Tammet, Daniel, recalling during fMRI
 
Dijksterhuis, Ap
 
Discourse on the Method
(Descartes)
 
Divine Comedy
(Dante)
 
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The
(Bauby)
 
Dolphins
 
Dopamine
 
Drives, conscious or unconscious.
See also
Goals; Motivations
 
Drugs.
See also
Anesthesia; Antipsychotics; Arbaclofen; Coffee; Ritalin; Propofol; SSRIs; Zolpidem
 
addictive
 
anesthetic
 
antipsychotic
 
combining
 
ineffective
 
overdose
 
Dualism.
See
Mind-body duality
 
 
Early Start Denver Model
 
Echolocation
 
Edelman, David
 
Edelman, Gerald
 
Einstein, Albert
 
Electroencephalography (EEG)
 
Elephants
 
brain weight of
 
Elle
magazine, Bauby and
 
Emergentism
 
Emotions
 
complex
 
computers and
 
depicting
 
evolutionary underpinnings of
 
handling
 
orbitofrontal cortex and
 
overestimating value of
 
signals from
 
unawareness of
 
Energy (metabolic demands)
 
conscious long-term saving of
 
Energy levels, feeling of
 
Environment
 
changing
 
control over
 
Epilepsy
 
Ericsson, K. Anders
 
Ether
 
Ethical questions, consciousness and
 
Evans, Joseph
 
Evolution
 
animals and
 
bacteria and
 
brain and
 
consciousness and
 
environmental niches and
 
essence of
 
fear and
 
genetic hypothesis-testing via
 
hardwiring and
 
information-processing and
 
internal
 
learning and
 
lesson of
 
replication and
 
scientific method and
 
Evolutionary pressure
 
Experience.
See
Consciousness
 
 
Faces, perception of
 
fusiform face area (FFA) and
 
Fears.
See also
Anxiety
 
Federer, Roger
 
Fedorikhin, Alexander
 
Feelings.
See
Emotions
 
Fernandez-Espejo, Davinia
 
Feynman, Richard
 
Feynman Lectures on Physics, The
(Feynman)
 
Fiorito, Graziano
 
Fisher, Melissa
 
Fleming, Steve
 
Flexibility
 
complexity and
 
stability and
 
fMRI studies
 
Fovea
 
Free will
 
Frontal lobes.
See also
Prefrontal cortex
 
Fusiform face area (FFA)
 
 
Gage, Phineas
 
Gambling based on self-knowledge
 
Gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA)
 
Gamma rhythms, consciousness and
 
high gamma variant
 
Gazzaniga, Michael
 
Genes/Genetics
 
coding
 
collections of
 
combinations of
 
control
 
disorders of
 
Hox
 
as ideas
 
interaction of
 
language of
 
learning and
 
mutation-causing
 
similarities between consciousness and
 
Genetic disorders
 
Genius cells
 
Genomes
 
Ghost in the machine
 
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The
(Larsson)
 
Gladwell, Malcolm
 
Global neuronal workspace model
 
Global workspace theory
 
Glutamate
 
Goals
 
biological
 
conscious minds and
 
consciousness and
 
unconscious
 
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
(Hofstadter)
 
Goodall, Jane
 
Gorillas
 
brain of
 
Gozal, David
 
Grammar
 
artificial
 
natural
 
Great Ape Project
 
Greenfield, Patricia
 
 
Habits
 
Hallucinations
 
Hanus, Daniel
 
Harlow, John
 
Haynes, John-Dylan
 
Heart disease
 
Heart rate
 
Hebb’s law
 
Hemispatial neglect.
See
Neglect
 
Hobbes, Thomas
 
Hofstadter, Douglas
 
Hogan, Krista and Tatiana (conjoined twins)
 
Holmes, Joni
 
 
Ideas.
See also
Beliefs
 
biological
 
DNA-based
 
levels of in nature
 
mental pyramid of
 
storing
 
Identity
 
confusable

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