If you’re a person with chronic pain, ask yourself how often you experience the following sort of thoughts: “I feel like I can’t stand it anymore,” “I want this pain to go away so badly,” “I can barely think of anything else and it overwhelms me,” “I’m afraid this...
With the popularity of immersive virtual reality growing it’s time we looked at the power behind this technology and begin to understand how it affects our sense of self. Predictive Coding is one of the leading theories explaining what our brain does. This...
Cognitive-related brain areas – How we assign meaning to an experience. Same stimulus and different meaning Emotion-related Brain Areas – Limbic system and associated homeostatic/stress mechanisms. Sensory discriminating – Nociception, the sensory...
We break up the world into concepts and labels in our everyday functioning. When we walk down the street, we label the car as a car. We cross someone on the street and label them as a woman and it’s associations. Attractive. Caucasian. Tall.. etc. When we do this...
