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Jun 27, 2024 · The Paradoxical Brain focuses on a range of phenomena in clinical and cognitive neuroscience that are counterintuitive and go against the grain of established thinking.
- Narinder Kapur, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Jonathan Cole, Sergio Della Sala, Tom ...
- 2011
Feb 24, 2022 · The Paradoxical Brain focuses on a range of phenomena in clinical and cognitive neuroscience that are counterintuitive and go against the grain of established thinking.
Dec 5, 2011 · In this final chapter, we propose 10 principles of brain function that can help accommodate paradoxical phenomena, and we also speculate on paradoxical therapeutic interventions that may be beneficial to human brain functioning.
- Paradoxical Enhancement of Face Processing
- When Two Lesions Can Be Better Than One
- Enhanced Performance and Profound Sensory Loss
- Conclusions
Etcoff et al. (2000) found that aphasic (language-impaired) patients were better able than healthy individuals to use facial cues to detect the presence of deception in video clips of people displaying or concealing powerful emotions. To this extent, they confirmed the clinical observations by Oliver Sacks noted at the beginning of this article. It...
The disastrous effects of a forest fire can sometimes, paradoxically, be offset by deliberately starting controlled fires that will deprive the main blaze of its substrate. A similar principle is sometimes used in the treatment of intractable epilepsy when the corpus callosum, connecting the two brain hemispheres, is cut to limit the spread of the ...
Sensory loss, such as that associated with becoming blind or deaf, is inevitably associated with limitations in everyday adjustment. But what has become apparent in recent years is that better-than-normal performance can also be reliably found in such individuals across a range of settings. For the purposes of this article and for reasons of space,...
Influential views within contemporary neuroscience view the brain as a dynamic, adaptive and evolving system shaped by its environment and itself. Damage to the brain may upset one dynamic state and cause difficult-to-predict effects as it settles into a new state. Without minimising the very real losses that often arise, the paradoxical enhancemen...
Sep 6, 2011 · In The Paradoxical Brain, Ramachandran and Hirstein argue that these and related syndromes indicate how the sense of self breaks down in surprising ways following different kinds of brain damage; and show, contrary to naïve belief, that our normal sense of self is actively constructed by the brain.
- Andrew Mayes
- 2011
The paradoxical brain / edited by Narinder Kapur ; with Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Jonathan Cole, Sergio Della Sala, Tom Manly, Andrew Mayes. p. ; cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-521-11557-5 (hbk.) 1. Brain. 2. Neurophysiology. 3. Brain–Diseases. 4. Paradox. I. Kapur, Narinder, editor. [DNLM: 1 ...
Dec 5, 2011 · We discuss 12 paradoxes and their implications for cognitive functioning. Some of these errors may implicate cognitive strategies that we use because they often lead to correct answers in many situations, but can produce errors in other instances. Introduction. Psychologists love mysteries and paradoxes.
