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Neuroscientist working in a bank. I dabble in music, videogames, literature, brains, furry stuff ๐Ÿฆฆ and brains. I have interests in most of the natural sciences, some of the unnatural sciences. I have strong opinions on communication and Q-tips

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Fortell. Meg. MER!

28.12.2024 10:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm so sorry for your election.

Norway is still an option. Just sayin'.

06.11.2024 11:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Dang. Sorry to hear that. :<

14.06.2024 08:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Always nice to hear from you and Dexter! โค๏ธ

20.03.2024 16:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looking forward to see it too!

06.03.2024 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Your memory isn't stored in any one place. It's a distributed network of associations. The info from your senses is stored where they are processed. Hippocampus works as a sort of library computer that connects all the different pieces of info into one memory. It is also associated with imagination!

16.11.2023 10:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do what, Warn people?

16.11.2023 10:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Doesn't that make the question kind of redundant ~?

10.11.2023 14:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hah! Wouldn't you like to know~.

10.11.2023 12:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What book was it? :o

10.11.2023 12:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You know the whole smooth/wrinkle brain thing? Usually such things is nonsense, but this one kind of has a point. The neurons in cortex mostly lie along the outer edge, forming a layer. Often referred to as "Grey Matter. The reason why human brains are folded? More surface area = more neurons!

31.10.2023 14:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Don't worry. We know who the mastermind is! You're the grapest! Err, greatest*!!

31.10.2023 14:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Brain fact: The concept of "Left brained versus Right brained" is almost entirely a myth. Information is parallell processed in both halves. Some functions are still lateralized (to one side) One of these is Language. Your left brain is heavily dominant in both producing and understanding language.

25.10.2023 07:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Brain fact:

People who suffer from Hemispheric neglect are unable to attend to anything to their left. Lesions near temporoparietal junction makes them unable to focus on anything to their left. What more, they can no longer imagine it either, until they turn their head so it is to their right.

16.10.2023 12:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Lower numbers = obviously superior!

12.10.2023 13:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am badge number 1758. x3

12.10.2023 12:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Psychologists-are-jerks fact:

The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

11.10.2023 09:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I saw him! He is cool and likes boardgames, and you guys are really cute together!

10.10.2023 06:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And yet you refuse to fight me!

08.10.2023 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I would think so! Illusions are usually about seeing what your brain expects to be there, when it is not, in fact, there.

06.10.2023 23:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And upside down, and a bunch of the info gets processed on the way!

06.10.2023 23:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's virtually all I do.

06.10.2023 11:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Brain fact:

You only see about 70% of what you see at any given time. Your vision is made out of slats of information that is processed in the occipital lobe. Everything else your brain just kind of.. Fills in on its own with what it expects to be there. Explains a lot in regards to superstition.

06.10.2023 10:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not-exactly-brain fact.

The medical term for "Brain freeze" is Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia.

29.09.2023 20:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That also resonates with the work done by Thomas Khun on scientific Paradigms.

I completely agree.

29.09.2023 20:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Justified Rich bitch!

29.09.2023 10:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Rich bitch

29.09.2023 10:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Actually, wearing a metal cage while working next to a massive magnet (fMRI) would've been worse.

..But I didn't do that.

28.09.2023 13:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Try 63 days.

Nearly ruined my Master's degree.

28.09.2023 13:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If the premise is that I took a wrong turn, I would probably ask for directions.

...To whichever IKEA lets you buy such a kickass throne!

27.09.2023 19:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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