Consciousness
What is consciousness?
Any condition different than a normal waking state.
What is an altered state of consciousness?
Conscious awareness of a particular stimuli.
What is selective attention?
The average duration of a single sleep cycle.
What is 90 minutes?
This is correlated to depressed mood, weight gain, suppressed immune system, and increased accidents.
What is sleep deprivation?
What is cognitive neuroscience?
This altered state is often associated with drug use or schizophrenia.
What is hallucinations?
Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.
What is inattentional blindness?
What is N3?
One in 5 adults have this sleep disorder.
What is insomnia?
The research finding that non-responsive patients showed brain activity similar to responsive patients when asked to imagine playing tennis is an example of the presence of this.
What is dual processing?
The altered state that we spend the most time in.
What is sleep?
Failure to notice a change in the environment.
What is change blindness?
The sleep stage in which you can experience hallucinations.
What is N1?
These disorders occur in N3 sleep.
What are sleepwalking, sleep talking and night terrors?
This partially accounts for renewed interest in the scientific study of consciousness.
What is technology for studying brain structure and function?
An altered state in which a person is completely absorbed and engrossed in an activity.
What is flow?
The ability to tune into one voice in a room where there are many conversations in a noisy room.
What is the cocktail party effect?
The sleep stage in which memories are processed or consolidation is thought to occur.
What is N2?
Sleep disorder that can cause severe depression and fatigue.
What is sleep apnea?
The principle that information is simultaneously processed on a conscious (high) and subconscious (low) road.
What is dual processing?
Slowing of time, intense emotion, perceptual distortions, and changes in bodily sensations.
What are common characteristics of altered states?
The famous Monkey Business Experiment is an example of this.
What is inattentional blindness?
Compared to adults who spend 20-25% of the night in this stage, infants spend half of their sleep in this stage.
What is REM?
The part of the brain impacted by shift work where light exposure triggers this part of the brain to reduce melatonin needed to trigger sleep.
What is the suprachiasmatic nucleus?