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The brain makes decisions 200 milliseconds before we know it




Scientists
Canary tries to unravel the mysteries of how our gray matter

When a person believes he has made a decision, your brain actually made before it has been realized. Gray matter triggers the response mechanism to make a determination between 200 and 300 milliseconds before we are aware of it, says Professor of Basic Psychology at the University of La Laguna Manuel de Vega. With this explanation, the espcial you give an example of the importance of studying the human brain, a very complex object that defines us as human beings as largely "we are our brains."

The brain makes decisions based on all the "history" of the person, from birth to the culturally acquired, and awareness of the decision comes after I have decided that the brain's neuronal machinery, says Manuel de Vega, director of the project Neurocog. This is a project of the Canarian Agency for Research, Innovation and Information Society, which is funded by the European Union Feder and nearly one hundred researchers of the two Canarian universities develop lines of work related brain's cognitive functions.

language, personality and emotion
The study of the brain is made from neuroscience, which is "one of the great scientific disciplines" of this century, in the words of Manuel de Vega, who noted that the ability to thought, memory, language , personality, emotion and interaction with the environment are working brain. From cognitive neuroscience is to understand the relationship between brain activity and functions such as attention, memory or language. The brain "us", and human bodies while others are important, that is "special."

Neurocog The project examines issues such as the neurological basis of maternal insensitivity to infant signals, pre-linguistic development of deaf children with implants deep cluck, neurochemistry and neuroimaging of sensory integration, or both language processes in healthy subjects and patients brain. Another working group addresses the neuropsychological assessment of childhood diseases, while others focus on bioinformatics applications of neurophysiological phenomena, and others do in neurobiology imagined movement and rehabilitation of motor disorders.