Neuroscience
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Neuroscience

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Today I read an article about a passionate computational neuroscientist and his research project. In my opinion, he has been working on the most fascinating topic. He strives to find out how the mind works. Since his childhood he has been interested in psychology, cognition and neuroscience, even though he didn't know what these fields include as a child. He followed his passion and it led him to the most rewarding career as a scientist and researcher. His research project is complex and captivating. He has been working on how our brain interpretes sensory information. According to his research our brain doesn't wait for input passively, instead it creates predictions about sensory information and suppresses it if the sensory information matches it's predictions and flags it if not. There are also so called travelling waves in our brain that go through the brain in two directions, top- down and bottom up. According to these travelling waves is it possible to investigate the differences of sensory information processing between people who for example struggles with such disorders as schizophrenia and autism. Schizophrenics focus more on inner input so that they separate from reality and become delusional. In contrast, autistic people focus more on outward sensory information so that they are overloaded and overstimulated by it.

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