Social neuroscience

Thump, thump, thump, thump. Her heart was beating so fast that it felt as if it were jumping out of her chest. Kate slowly turned around to see Mr. Jacks and his dog make their way through the hanger doors. “Mr. Jacks!” she screamed in disbelief. After hours of waiting in the darkness, she thought that she would never see him again. The blue light glimmered as she saw them emerge from the force field; Mr. Jacks rushed to give Kate a big hug just as the old bulldog covered her entire face…

On the first day of the fishbowl, I did not participate. I was super scared and terrified. I wanted to see how it went before I go in but since that was a practice round. I did not want to look like a fool, not knowing what to do. The second day was a whole different story. I was one of the first group of people that started the conversation. Since I was one of the few that started the conversation, I didn't walk in which it made it less awkward. But when I wanted to get out, I felt rude. I did…

Orientation: It was a really quiet night, the cricket neighbours were singing, the wind was howling and you can hear the talk of the loud community. I was Inside the safe and happy building that we call home, eating my hot mushroom stew that my amazing mother Ellen made specially for me, it was kind of disgusting but I could eat my way through it. Ellen was at the really old fire place fire place shovelling coals into the fire, she was sweating l so much She looked like a water fountain. But…

Founder of Child Bereavement UK Shares Insights on Grief An experienced psychotherapist who specialises in grief counselling — Julia Samuel MBE is quite the pioneer in the field of child bereavement. During her role as a bereavement counsellor at St. Mary's Hospital paediatric department in Paddington — she was the first to introduce the discipline of maternity and paediatric psychotherapist. Julia helped launch what was originally called the Child Bereavement Trust in 1994 and is now known as…

The Dyatlov Pass incident refers to the mysterious unsolved deaths of nine ski hikers in the Northern Ural Mountains on February 2, 1959. Their bodies were found scattered and with weird markings and injuries on them. On February 2, February 1959 9 hikers were found dead by Russian search teams. Most of them had clothes on but some were stripped of their clothes in the frostbitten snow. One case was especially weird. Her name is Lyudmila Dubinina and she was found both naked and mutilated…

processes cannot be observed. Therefore, from this an alternative method of looking at the physiological side of the brain had to emerge. Cognitive neuroscience was then born to identify the neural mechanisms, which are responsible for underlying cognition. These neural mechanisms are also important when it comes to manifestations in behaviour. Cognitive neuroscience helps to combine the works of cognitive science and cognitive psychology. However, it is important to consider how…

According to Solso (2008), artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that uses programs to enhance cognitive functions. Pattern-recognition uses previous experience to identify a pattern accurately. Pattern-recognition through artificial intelligence is an area being explored at an extraordinary rate. Through the use of experiments using mouse brains and three data sets that consider neural networking for pattern recognition is not so far away. In the study presented by Zeng…

Elevate works by first picking the skills you would like to improve, then from that data Elevate creates a personalized training program. They suggest you to train at least 3 times a week to improve results. You receive a new set of mental games each day to build the skills you need most. Elevate also has a detailed performance tracking that scores and ranks you on how well you do. Skills like focus, memory, processing, math, precision, and comprehension etc., are tested and claim to be improve…

In author Matthew Lieberman’s “Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect,” he expounds on his research in social neuroscience, where he reveals how essential our need to interact and connect with others around us is and the role that the lack of social interaction is playing in our everyday lives. He goes on to explain that this need to be social is as, if not more, important as our physiological needs, such as food, water, and shelter. Lieberman uses various forms of data collected from…

“Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem”- William of Ockham. Occam’s razor; A principle in latin which translates to “No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary” (90). In the novel ‘The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time’ by Mark Haddon, the main character named Christopher Boone is a high functioning mathematical savant. It is stated in the back of the book that he “has no understanding of human emotions.” This is false. Christopher has the…