Month: July 2024

NTSB Warns of Marijuana’s Negative Impact on Drivers

A horrific crash that killed six high school girls in Oklahoma two years ago has the head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board urging parents to warn teenagers about the risk of driving after using marijuana. Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy made the appeal to parents… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, […]

Published on July 18, 2024

Scientists Create a ‘Google Earth’ of the Human Heart

Scientists have created a unique atlas of the human heart that can take you into its internal workings just like Google Earth. The video offers “unprecedented 3D detail” of the organ to help doctors better understand the mechanism of cardiovascular disease and develop new… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, […]

Published on July 18, 2024

Quality space computations for consciousness

The quality space hypothesis about conscious experience proposes that conscious sensory states are experienced in relation to other possible sensory states. For instance, the colour red is experienced as being more like orange, and less like green or blue. Recent empirical findings suggest that subjective similarity space can be explained in terms of similarities in […]

Published on July 18, 2024