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What do I learn while exploring that wonder? https://t.co/JvpN6jORr2
I wonder if difficulties in top-down processing and how it manifests in not succumbing to the hollow/rotating mask illusion (among others) is also related to trouble with processing faces and the development of mind blindness thru lack of internalizing on social/emotive cues.
Tinnitus might be a signal processing issue in the brain? Neat.Some of my close friends in childhood suffered from that and now growing up, their parents suspect some form of autism or adhd.https://t.co/PkbOOSubOq
Promising:"We develop this idea and suggest that top-down dysregulation constitutes a gradient extending from mostly non-emotional top-down control processes [...] to mainly emotional regulatory processes"https://t.co/5bFnhKrrJD
So music works separately?"visual emotion-processing deficits were not correlated with either auditory sensory or auditory emotion measures, suggesting that emotion-processing deficits in schizophrenia cluster within, rather than across, modalities"https://t.co/18Jiys2frX
That's actually a quite through article. Given its publish date, it suggests that any associated research on for or against my wonder will have been published sometime after 2009. https://t.co/Ppxvgthv3V
"Heavy, constant drinking damages the brain in many different ways, including difficulties in perception of emotional expressions."https://t.co/d3KHQVImzkAnd can perhaps makes those without amplified negative affect psychotic by ignoring other's pain?https://t.co/tTShNP2AWz
That explains a lot. Alcohol makes me friendlier/receptive to others. I already cope with not recognizing expressions on the daily. An enhanced locus on bottom up sensory processing (e.g. being drunk) may be enhancing my skills at experiencing people's emotions? Hard to test.
Suggests if I can find a way to do that (bottom up processing) without impairing my executive functions, I could enhance my empathy skills.I don't wanna try other drugs (aside from caffeine). I'll have to investigate what I experience during meditation, flow, runner's high etc.
That audio and visual processing can diverge separately and independently when it comes to hallucinations in schizophrenia is fascinating; because that is exactly what I predicted based on learning about sub-vocalization & this piece by Feynman.https://t.co/Ff3jSMoN9Y
I have visual hallucinations that seem to come and go depending on factors that correlate with common triggers of schizophrenic breaks.https://t.co/3ezPEx31gU
I wanna figure out what this phenomena is so I can control it. As best as I can describe, it's like fever dreaming meets synesthesia, but still being able to access my language (unlike my meltdown states).https://t.co/P6IG8KZaey
A man who has had a brain injury that turned him into a genius:"everything has a pixilated look,"https://t.co/vCEmnYVTlj
How would someone in 1961, not experienced with 'pixels' as a concept, have described that exact phenomena? https://t.co/ehk00nz9M9
What changes during a fever? Your immune system.You'll never guess what commonly happens after a concussion...https://t.co/vn31jV3RW7 https://t.co/ckvEYeXnnr
Oh by the way, I'm actively exploring this change in my brain.As part of my sleep regulating experiment.Today is the second day that I've been forcing myself to stay up past my 'tired' point.https://t.co/YutNDwUd48
"Scientists have combined vagus nerve stimulation with playing audible tones to decrease the symptoms of tinnitus." 🍆https://t.co/GvxTx1UOvchttps://t.co/sUVdWJNN6u
THE ANSWER CAME SCREAMING OUT OF MY ASS:"into the colons of mice and waited for the enteroendocrine cells and their partners to light up. Those partners turned out to be to vagal neurons, the researchers report today in Science." BACK & FORTH, FOREVER!https://t.co/W03rocW8Gi
"Why does my tinnitus get louder when I have a fever?" https://t.co/9jVtkAm80k
"A 30-year-old female patient admitted to our hospital with sudden hearing loss and tinnitus in the right ear. [...] The final diagnosis was total hearing loss in the right ear (air conduction/bone conduction: 113/67 dB)."https://t.co/ZfdcB1j8Wf
Left-right bias:"response to temporally novel clicks reliably correlates with the severity of early auditory-related behavioral abnormalities in ASD, including hyper- and hyposensitivity to sounds, confusion and aversive reactions to auditory stimulation"https://t.co/WShBTMcSPh
"Ants show a leftward turning bias when exploring unknown nest sites"https://t.co/j0PBSRwf0O"Results suggest a link between personality and cognitive state in eusocial insects."https://t.co/t5eUG4XNNo
"Over the past years, a growing number of studies have started to elucidate this association and highlight potential mechanisms, including brain-immune communication. "https://t.co/fDKLs20b16
"We’re not talking about the kinds of stresses our kids go through over smartphones. We’re talking about the kinds of things that really impede your ability to function."https://t.co/2EJwdxPwTS