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Astronomy still uses mythography because it aligns to how our brains work

One of the challenges in getting a holistic view of the neuroscience literature is that there is "evidence"

I coined the word "reity" to refer to the modern social science propensity for coining abstract nouns to

Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote: What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot

South Pacific Islanders after WWII built replicas of airport objects in hopes that cargo planes would land and deliver goods again. But the planes did not land.

The discovery and identification of a large set of puzzle pieces...has made it possible to apply a modified version of an ancient practice to solve a bleeding-edge problem, where the abstract mental nouns have failed.

The finding here suggests that procrastination is the self rebelling against doing something being imposed upon it from the outside. 8BM has a stubborn side.

When listening to an ambiguous social narrative, paranoids had higher activation in left TPOJ1, left TGd, and right 9mdp.

Does neuroscience say BPD patients unconsciously enjoy being insulted? The problems with the ventral striatum-reward center paradigm.

One of the stereotypes of aging is being set in one's ways, and no longer wanting to seek

While right IFSa (Theseus) is usually involved in deciding to administer third-party punishment, in the present study it showed up in restraining punishment of the unfair player.

In aphantasia, during retrieval of autobiographical visual memories, Akasha (right hippocampus, personification of space) spoke less to Saga (v23ab, Norse goddess of historical storytelling).

The advances in neuroscience have attracted many people who try to use it to dress up their pet ideas. Dopamine,

Puelles and Nieuwenhuys propose that there are about 1,250 microzones in the brain, from which different types of neurons emerge in different developmental eras in the embryo. They need interpretation to glimpse the butterflies of the soul.

Neuromythography can be distilled into 12 Principles. These weave together epistemology, the reification fallacy, evolutionary psychology, brain mapping, Lindenmayer systems, music theory, and myth.

No mindless robot can get less than zero or more than 100 "correct" answers. However, those robots at the top or bottom of the performance distribution will under- or over-estimate their performance simply because of the cutoff at 100% and 0%, respectively!

The vertebrates have co-evolved with a dark, infiltrating enemy over the past several hundred million years. I am talking about the herpesvirus family of neurotropic viruses.

While I do not uncritically endorse everything Marshall McLuhan claimed, there are certain quotes that ironically resonate with neuromythography.

The neurotransmitter arginine vasopressin (AVP) is a complement of oxytocin, and mediates a lot of social behaviors. Both oxytocin and

When the ancients looked at the stars, they imagined lines in between them that outlined mythological characters. When neuroscientists looked at fMRI blobs in brain scans, and ran temporal activation correlations between them, they imagined functional connections.

The current neuromemex contains more than 225 human and animal studies demonstrating neural sexual dimorphisms, none of which are uncorrected for the larger average brain and body size of men. 

A pair of studies identify Eubacterium eligens as an excellent bacterial citizen of the gut.

Eliminative materialism suggests that we should abandon the language of mental states entirely in favor of a vocabulary that better captures the underlying physical processes in the brain. -Patricia Churchland