A reported MIT brain-imaging study suggests older adults preserve robust language-network activity even as executive-control networks weaken. Here’s what the source says, what it means (and doesn’t), and practical ways to lean on language strengths as the brain ages.
Consciousness & Evolution
Regenerative Astrocytes and a Surprising Way the Adult Brain May Repair Damage
Source attribution: This post is a curated breakdown of Regenerative Astrocytes Repair Brain Damage, with additional scientific context and … [Read More...]
Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT): Evidence, Objections, and Testable Predictions
Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) is one of the most influential scientific proposals for how conscious experience could arise from brain … [Read More...]
Meditation Research: How to Separate First-Person Reports from Brain Measures (Without Losing What Matters)
Bottom line: Meditation research is strongest when it treats subjective reports (what practice feels like) and objective measures (what brains … [Read More...]
Animal Consciousness: What Behavior and Brains Can (and Can’t) Tell Us
When a dog looks guilty, a crow solves a puzzle, or an octopus slips out of its tank, it’s hard not to feel that a mind is looking back at us. … [Read More...]
Science, Reality & Understanding
Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT): Mechanism, Evidence, and the Strongest Objections
Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) is one of the most influential scientific attempts to … [Read More...]
Meditation and Awareness: What Lab Measures Capture vs Lived Experience
People often come to meditation with two questions that pull in different directions: “What … [Read More...]
Quantum Consciousness Proposals: Mechanisms, Objections, and Testable Bets
Quantum consciousness ideas keep resurfacing for a simple reason: consciousness still looks … [Read More...]
TIMP2 and the Aging Brain: Can a “Youth-Associated” Protein Rejuvenate Microglia?
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