neuroscience Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/neuroscience/ Dream Research & Education Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:59:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png neuroscience Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/neuroscience/ 32 32 Dreaming as Play and as Mind-Wandering https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-as-play-and-as-mind-wandering/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-as-play-and-as-mind-wandering/#respond Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:59:32 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4590 The neuroscience of dreams has shifted in recent years toward the idea that dreaming can be conceived as a kind of mind-wandering in sleep. According to current evidence, mind-wandering (also known as day-dreaming, or drifting thought) is a product of the “default mode network,” a system of neural regions that remains active in the absence …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-as-play-and-as-mind-wandering/feed/ 0 The Ethical Challenges of Dream Video Technologies https://bulkeley.org/the-ethic-challenges-of-dream-video-technologies/ https://bulkeley.org/the-ethic-challenges-of-dream-video-technologies/#respond Sun, 03 Oct 2021 22:52:23 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4345 New technologies are making it possible to use brain data to create video reconstructions of people’s dreams while they sleep. Is this thrilling, terrifying, or both? Here’s how it works. Researchers are learning how to observe an individual’s brain while viewing a specific image (let’s say a cat) and how to identify neural patterns correlated …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-ethic-challenges-of-dream-video-technologies/feed/ 0 The Best Technology for Studying Dreams https://bulkeley.org/the-best-technology-for-studying-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/the-best-technology-for-studying-dreams/#respond Mon, 31 May 2021 22:04:09 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4300 It’s hard to beat the simple practice of keeping a dream journal. Many exciting new tools are being developed to help us understand the nature and functions of our dreams. For example, researchers are developing technologies for generating a video “read-out” of a person’s dreams based on neural signals from the brain. They are devising …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/the-best-technology-for-studying-dreams/feed/ 0 Neuro-Nonsense: The Perils, and Promise, of Cognitive Science for the Study of Religion https://bulkeley.org/neuro-nonsense-the-perils-and-promise-of-cognitive-science-for-the-study-of-religion/ https://bulkeley.org/neuro-nonsense-the-perils-and-promise-of-cognitive-science-for-the-study-of-religion/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2015 01:03:03 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2978 This is the text of a paper I presented at “The Psychology of Religion/Religion of Psychology” conference held at the University of Chicago Divinity School  on March 6, 2015.  My paper was the first in a panel devoted to “Disjunctions Between Contemporary Psychology and Religion.” On July 17, 1990, President George H.W. Bush announced in Proclamation …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/neuro-nonsense-the-perils-and-promise-of-cognitive-science-for-the-study-of-religion/feed/ 1 The Technology of Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/the-technology-of-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/the-technology-of-dreaming/#comments Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:10:53 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2906 “For myself I never found need of more than four or five hours’ sleep in the twenty-four. I never dream.” So said the famously hard-working inventor Thomas Edison in 1921 in his Diary and Sundry Observations.  Edison claimed the only truly restful sleep was totally unconscious, and he regarded dreaming as a waste of mental …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/wondering-brain-dreams-religion/feed/ 0 Obama’s Brain Activity Map: Good News for the Psychology of Religion https://bulkeley.org/obamas-brain-activity-map-good/ https://bulkeley.org/obamas-brain-activity-map-good/#respond Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:17:29 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2651 On July 17, 1990 President George H.W. Bush initiated the “Decade of the Brain” by making an official proclamation that began with these words:   “The human brain, a 3-pound mass of interwoven nerve cells that controls our activity, is one of the most magnificent—and mysterious—wonders of creation.  The seat of human intelligence, interpreter of senses, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/obamas-brain-activity-map-good/feed/ 0 Freud and Neuroscience: A Return to Origins https://bulkeley.org/freud-neuroscience-return-origins/ https://bulkeley.org/freud-neuroscience-return-origins/#respond Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:51:47 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=1539 A chapter I wrote with that title appears in the recently published book Disciplining Freud on Religion: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Gregory Kaplan and William B. Parsons (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010).  Here is the abstract: “Freud developed psychoanalysis on the basis of a neurological model of human mental functioning. Scholars and …

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