What does topographic representation in the cerebral cortex imply ?
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The brain is convoluted. As are we all?
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I think you will find what you need here:\n\nhttp://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/introb.html\n\nIt is a good but simple site on neuroscience.\n\nThere was an identical question in Yahoo Answers since yours; I answered that in the same way.  Check it out for other help.
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The following is a short review of a book by Jules Davidoff who says there is is significant evidence that color is basic building block of memory. \n\nI quote: "Cognition through Color\nJules Davidoff\n\nA century ago phrenologists described a "bump" for color located just over the eyebrow. Today's modular approach to the organization of the visual cortex is more sophisticated, yet it still holds that there are brain areas dedicated solely to particular aspects of perception. Cognition through Color reviews the current status of investigations of color cognition from the standpoint of modern neuropsychology. It provides clear evidence, based on a large body of empirical study that includes the author's own work on color perception and naming, that color appears to be one of the basic building blocks or modules from which perception is constructed and our memories organized. Davidoff systematically relates this evidence to an explicit model of color cognition from sensation through functional role to naming.\n\nThe original impetus for Cognition through Color came from the investigation of individuals with brain damage. There are, for example, patients who have difficulty in naming colors. More important, despite normal color vision, memory for colors can be "split off" from all aspects of memory for shapes and objects, providing a strong case for the notion of modularity in vision.\n\nDavidoff shows that to understand how color is remembered, we must know how objects are recognized. He observes that the perception of what we call color is, in essence, the study of the surface properties of objects, and he develops a model in which the mental representations for color can be linked to the knowledge of objects. Throughout he emphasizes detailed critical analysis of experimental data in light of current theories of both perception and cognition.\n\nJules Davidoff is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University College of Swansea."\n\nSource: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=5589&ttype=2
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did you know meditating has been linked to thicker cortexes which is where concentration and memory is?  Anyway check out the source link I provided for the answer to your question.  Happy meditating
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it's maps that represents topography (details of the landscape) of a place: horizontal(plane) projection of objects located on it and contour (curves of elevation). details represented can differ,accordingly to the purpose of the map: engineering, cadastre, navigation, tourism, agronomy, landmanagement,defense....
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No particular part, though some parts are more important: The frontal cortex is important for general cognitive activity, and structures such as the hippocampus which are involved with emotion and memory will be involved also.
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See in\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topography
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a lot of studies have shown that overal brain size isnt as important as complexity and size of the outer layer of the brain, the crerebral cortex.. it is pretty much known that this part of the brain carries out the complex "thought" and ability to put things together that would eventually add up to be wisdom\nanother huge factor, probably more important, is live experience.. not just the top layer, obvious things, but the underlying developmental processes that every human goes through\nthere are tons of things that shape a persons mind, ability, level of conciousness, clarity, etc
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The lunate sulcus separates the primary visual cortex from the rest of the brain - in homo erectus and primates
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Sense of humar - or that part of the brain
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basically a registry of brain activity through derivations. you have about 16-20 electrodes connected invasively or not (as in, on your skin (the true EEG) or directly on brain cortex areas (electrocortigogram): A=auricle, C=central, Cz=vertez, F=frontal, O=occipital, Fp=Frontal pole, P=Parietal, T=temporal. the pattern of connections can vary depending on the part that you're particulary interested in reading (temporal, occipital, parietal, frontal lobes). the register generally shows activity of four different types of brainwaves: alpha (8-13hz), beta (13-30hz), delta (.5-4hz) and theta (4-7hz). the current and collective behaviour can be analyzed and compared to typical behaviour of certain areas during typical times (ie., beta waves are common to the frontal lobe, but during phases II-IV of sleep are unusual). this helps study focalised/generalised seizures, neurotransmiter (chemical) imbalances, etc.
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In the brain.  \n\nIts in the frontal lobes above the orbits of the eyes and is associated with decision making and emotions.
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Yes, it's generally considered the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for higher-level planning and evaluation.  I recommend reading the macabre but interesting stroy of Phineas Gage, linked below, to get a sense of what happens when this area is damaged.
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The Human brain put images together because they have learned to expect things, and sometimes the data might get a little confused. \n\nWe may see an illusion because we know what we are expected to see, even though part of a picture or design may not be completely there. The basis of this is in how we perceive things. \n\nThat almost explains everything right there. If our brain and eyes did not function like they do, we would not see illusions like we do.\n\nOne example of optical illusion is the television. The television is just shows us a continuous flow of still pictures, one right after the other. Our eyes along with your brain fill in all of the empty spots. Our brain has learned to expect movement. As a result, our brain can fill in all of the missing pieces and the television appears to be actually moving to you, even though it really isn’t! \n\nA computer monitor is also one big optical illusion. Sometime when you have a chance, look at a computer screen really close for a minute or two. You will notice that you computer screen is made up of tiny red, green, and blue dots. The illusion is, you see more than just red, green, and blue dots; you see thousands of different colors. Our brains put the red, green, and blue dots together to make the colors. \n\nOptical illusions just trick you into seeing something else. They are an error in our perception of the illusion.
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The amount of surface area of the brain-cerebral cortex allocated to the index finger is GREAT in humans.  Go look up the Homonculus (little man) and see the diagram of the brain with the relative amounts of surface area of the pre central and post central gyri utilized for that finger.  AMAZING.  Esp the idea of fine motor for needlepoint and or for reading braille.
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Kyle, if you can figure this one out, you best write a very long book about it. Science has been working on this for a long time. Obviously, the cerebral cortex has something to do with it, but not all. Awareness, specificially self-awareness, is a slippery fish. I will not give you Wikipedia links, you probably already have them.\n\nRather, look up Julian Jaynes and his work on the Bicameral Mind. Early work but interesting. He thought that once upon a time the two halves of our brains were not very interconnected, that we received messages from the right half as mystical experiences, shamanic insight. The books he wrote are incredibly hard to read. \n\nI will see what else I can dig up for you. Great question. The work on this is ongoing.
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Do you know how to represent precisely the state of a brain at any given time? If so, then yes.  I think you'll find this is a hard problem to solve, though.