Category: Essay
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The Inevitable AI Revolution: Why Researchers Must Embrace the Future of Scientific Writing
The world of scientific research and communication has evolved rapidly over the past few decades, but some researchers are still clinging to the past, insisting that authoring a manuscript is the most essential part of being a researcher. However, with… Continue reading
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Working with soldiers
originally written for gsnmunich.wordpress.com I let my eyes wander along the front gate. The entrance to the University campus is closed and guarded. A sign reads ‘Military Security Area – Attention firearms use’. The atmosphere is freezing and the place… Continue reading
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Testing the “ELF emmit: Mind & Body Assistant” – The Science
This article is also available in video form on Youtube. Hi, I’m Marian, a Psychology/Neuroscience Researcher at the LMU Munich in Germany specializing in the topic of visual attention. I have personally used all methods described below. With its tagline “almost… Continue reading
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Purging of memories from conscious awareness tracked in the human brain
When being asked about the importance of memory most people would say that remembering something is good and forgetting something is bad. While this seems reasonable to believe about factual knowledge (f.e. information about places or names of persons), there… Continue reading
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We watch you while you sleep – neuroimaging of dreams
Revised essay by Marian Sauter for the application to the Axol Science Scholarship 2015/16 In the last decade, technology has made it possible to combine fMRI and EEG in one experiment while minimizing the artifacts that the two methods produce… Continue reading
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Are we in power? The functional neuroanatomy of intentional action
In his talk at the LMU Munich in April 2013, Marcel Brass gives an account of the functional neuroanatomy of intentional control of action. Since he found previous neuroanatomical evidence to be contradictory, he developed a new model decomposing intentional… Continue reading