Extreme conditions like savantism, autism or synaesthesia, which have a neurological basis, challenge the idea that other minds are similar to our own. In this paper we report a single case study o...

[Note: This was a class project, the experiment itself hasn't been performed] Previous neuroimaging studies have shown that meditation involves many brain regions, including various cortical and su...

My summary of Wang, Ho, Zhao, et. al., The Journal of Neuroscience, June 18, 2008. 28(25):6388–6392. It can be found in my shared documents.

A brief summary of Blundell, J., Kouser, M., and Powell, C., Systemic inhibition of mammalian target of rapamycin inhibits fear memory reconsolidation. (2008). Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 9...

In this paper I explore the connection between "wonder experiences", music, and creativity. Forceno, A. Unpublished

The second law of thermodynamics is a universal generalization that states that a quantity, called entropy, always increases. Over time, the differences in pressure, density, and temperature of a p...