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Benjamin Zimmerman
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Sep 18, 2022

What Space Are You In?

In neuroscience research, we spend a lot of time trying to make sense of brain images. I spend a good part of most of my days answering the question, “what space am I in?” That’s the cool-kid lingo for talking about what kind of image you are working with. There’s…

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What Space Are You In?
What Space Are You In?
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Oct 16, 2021

Is Aging on Its Way Out?

My first car was my grandpa’s 1986 Chevrolet Celebrity. It had a lot of character. About 25% of the time, if you stopped at a red, the car would stall, and I became adept at putting it in park, restarting the ignition, and getting back into drive before the car…

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Is Aging on Its Way Out?
Is Aging on Its Way Out?
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Oct 1, 2021

How to Decide When We Die

We are semantic apes. We love categorizing things. Even in Genesis, God seems to be amused by Man’s propensity to name things, bringing “all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky” to “see what the man would name them.” We love to classify and differentiate. But it’s…

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How to Decide When We Die
How to Decide When We Die
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Aug 12, 2021

Does Your Heart Control Your Thoughts?

Okay, I admit that my title is meant to be a bit clickbaity. But with clickbaity gusto, I’ll double down and begin by reminding you that Aristotle, who many well-educated people regard as a pretty smart dude, believed that the conscious mind resided in…

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Does Your Heart Control Your Thoughts?
Does Your Heart Control Your Thoughts?
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Jul 15, 2021

Can neuroscience help us decide how to meditate?

Over the past year or so, I have found myself developing opinions about meditation. I am not an expert meditator or a meditation teacher. I acknowledge and respect the long and ancient histories of meditative practice. Even so, I think about meditation a lot, and I believe that modern neuroscience…

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Can neuroscience help us decide how to meditate?
Can neuroscience help us decide how to meditate?
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May 23, 2021

Wheels are Turning: How Cyclicity Analysis is Changing the Way I Think About the Brain

“Their brains lit up!” Most people will be familiar with the hot yellow and red blobs superimposed on beautifully high-resolution brain images to show brain activation. These images give the impression that the brain is switching modules on and off as needed to complete its arcane computations, but the typical…

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Wheels are Turning: How Cyclicity Analysis is Changing the Way I Think About the Brain
Wheels are Turning: How Cyclicity Analysis is Changing the Way I Think About the Brain
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Benjamin Zimmerman

Benjamin Zimmerman

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Neuroscientist whimsically musing about the brain, cognition, and reaching our fullest potential

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