Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Why People Sometimes Don’t See the Obvious

“By using a novel technique to test brain waves, …[researchers] are discovering how the brain processes external stimuli that do and don't reach our awareness,” reports Medical News Today. “A paper about their results, "Dynamics of Alpha Control: Preparatory Suppression of Posterior Alpha Oscillations by Frontal Modulators Revealed with Combined EEG and Event-related Optical Signal," published this month in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, reveals how alpha waves, typically thought of as your brain's electrical activity while it's at rest, can actually influence what we see or don't see.” Read more.

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