We talk stimulus and response, but most of our lives are spent without anything terribly stimulating going on. In these moments, our thoughts are the salient stimuli; ideas are the new perceptions. This opens up a whole new dynamic experience for psychology to talk about.
Although our stream of consciousness, by its very nature, exists only in the present, its directions are determined a great deal by the past. Our stream of consciousness depends upon…
As discussed before, long-term memory sets down pathways by strengthening some connections and inhibiting others. We create many concepts by the bundling of active neural tracts. We have a somewhat…
It is always perplexing to comprehend the ability of the human brain, but it may be even more shocking to realize that it must do all this work in real…
Some people claim to mistrust their senses, calling it all an illusion with Cartesian enthusiasm. You may have thought these people were a little crazy. Or you may have agreed…
I have previously written about how attention functions to direct senses to novel or unpredictable things that we may need to react to. Attention focuses on a section of the…
In this media-based era, attention has been something that we have struggled to control. With all the powerful and provocative imagery of overly convenient media and entertainment, it is no…
What is Consciousness? Our whole means of existence is the ability to perceive and navigate through the real world, thus enabling survival and physical existence through evolutionary time. Humans never…
Attention, like action, can follow two different modes. Sometimes our attention is reactive, and sometimes our attention is searching for something. When we automatically react to a stimulus, our attention…
The way our consciousness works is to hold some object in its spotlight but with tendrils that extend to make the next conscious thought come more readily to mind. This…