differences between brain's fissure and convolutions?
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convulution- contortion of the body caused by violent, involuntary muscular contractions of the extremities, trunk, and head. \n\nfissure- a narrow opening produced by cleavage or separation of parts.
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Here are the methods, the big players:\n\n*Non-Invasive (=Skull doesn't have to be opened):\n-EEG - scalp electrodes. High temporal, poor spatial resolution. Definitely not on the cell level. Reflects the activity of synchronized (>10000) activity in dendrites.\n-fMRI and other Neuroimaging methods: Measures oxygen saturation as proxy for neural activity. Very coarse temporal resolution, moderate spatial resolution (about 1 mm). Definitely not on a cellular level, but on the level of columns and modules. \n\n*Invasive (=Skull has to be removed to do it)\n-Extracellular recording: Putting a (metal) microelectrode near a neuron. Advantage: Can record electrical activity from individual neurons. Drawback: Very invasive, losing the big picture as one is recording from one neuron at a time. But great spatial and temporal resolution. Measures action potentials.\n-Intracellular recording: "Patching" an individual neuron with a recording device, usually a pipette. Can record membrane potentials from individual neurons. Great spatial and temporal resolution. Measures potential changes of the membrane. Drawback: Super-invasive (better done in slices than intact animals).\n-Optical imaging and voltage-sensitive dyes. See above for neuroimaging, but with a better spatial and temporal resolution. Drawback: Very invasive. Only effective on the brain surface.\n\nThere are other methods like MEG or 2-Photon-Microscopy, but they are not very popular and usually share the problems of the above method.\n\nNothing like you desire has been invented yet. Something like that would be the holy grail. Methodologically speaking. Contact me if you want to know more.
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you use both halves of your brain. you use different halves during different activities. in artists the right brain is the stronger side. when you are doing a math problem you use a different 1/2 of the brain than when you are painting. they both do the same thing in everyone. it is just in some people are stronger in one half. people are not just either logical or creative. that is not how it works. you are both but you may have a strength.\n\nnsrunner16@yahoo.com
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Not everyone is able to think in the abstract! Studies of left and right brain dominance\nshow some understand concepts, (left). Some people understand better when we "draw" a picture for them, (right)!
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Indeed it is fascinating!  \n\nAnother thing I always thought was neat was the way some connective tissues of our bodies work.  Bone, cartilage, elastic tissue, and many types of extracellular matrix that provides support for our organs work in the same way that cement does; a matrix of proteins filled with a sort of goop of compounds that holds it all together, just like a wire mesh filled with cement.\n\nPerhaps even more interesting is the way our brains work like computers (or rather, the way computers work like our brains!).  There are really only two positions a neuron can take: 'on' and 'off'.  This is not unlike the binary code that processors use.  Of course, brains are a lot more complex, and use a variety of messengers beyond just electrons.
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There are TWO, both just deep to the temporal lobe.
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in terms of memory capacity and storage, the human brain outperforms even a supercomputer.\n\nhowever, in terms of memory retrieval and information processing, the computer outperforms the human brain...
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They're both critical but basically the oblongata is involved with breathing and heartbeating due to its connection with the spinal cord so it is very crucial. On the other hand, Cerebrum damage is like a common term "brain damage" so it might just alter your function at the least.
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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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A tap delay line is simply a bunch of memory storage devices that will delay the data (or signal). \n\np successive convolutions of g(n) is the same as the Fourier transform of g(n) to the p-th power.  I don't recall but it seems like that might be a propertry of convolution/Fourier transform.
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Inorder to relate brain mechanics to physics you would have to use the quantium electrodynamics or the theory of electrostatic "Like studying how the processor works" but instead of electrons you can use neurons (how various sections of the brain handle data or signals and what part of the body they affect if signal transmission is ineffective) \n\nRealy hope you find an answer I would realy want to know your progress good luck!
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the brain is capable of processing 400,000 bits of information a second,we process 2000 what does that tell you?consciously trying to solve two difficult problems at once is unlikely.Good Luck
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A) Cell bodies is my choice.\n\nCerebral cortex  is a thin, convoluted surface of the brain consisting mainly of nerve cell bodies.♥
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what the **** is an ****fissure?
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Interesting. The brain is a bundle of neurons, but it has no "feeling" itself.  An electrode inserted into the brain is painless.
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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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Although some people claim that there is a neurological difference between males and females that accounts for differing abilities in math and science, this article from Yale University refutes it:\nhttp://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=28105\nBasically, it explains the apparent difference in terms of society and society's expectations of women. \n\nWhen I majored in math in college, half our class was made up of women.