Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness …
Watch her talking about this amazing experience: here.

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Brain scanners can see your decisions before you make them:
In a study published Sunday in Nature Neuroscience, researchers using brain scanners could predict people’s decisions seven seconds before the test subjects were even aware of making them… Caveats remain, holding open the door for free will… The experiment may not reflect the mental dynamics of [...]

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