Scientific American Releases Latest Digital Issue of Scientific American MIND ? The Chaos of Consciousness

Scientific American has just released the latest issue of Scientific American MIND, the increasingly popular magazine focusing on the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience, psychology and related fields. The latest issue titled, 'The Chaos of Consciousness,' delves into the human consciousness and how the brain actually creates reality from everyday sensory inputs.

New York, NY September 22, 2005 ? Scientific American has just released the latest issue of Scientific American MIND, the increasingly popular magazine focusing on the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience, psychology and related fields.

The latest issue titled, ?The Chaos of Consciousness,? delves into the human consciousness and how the brain actually creates reality from everyday sensory inputs.

In the feature ?The Movie in Your Head,? neuroscientist Christof Koch uses imaging technology to reveal the areas in the brain that are buzzing with neural activity when a person is tracking a speeding car, looking at a loved one or eating a chocolate bar. But does such chemical signaling stitch fleeting sensory impressions into an apparently seamless stream of consciousness?

In ?Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes," neuroscientists gain insights on the organization and functions of the brain by investigating people with synesthesia, a unique condition where sight, hearing and touch can blend in extraordinary ways. For example, the sound of each note plunked on a piano might evoke a different color or printed letters, words, numbers or even days on a calendar may gleam with hues of their own. And in ?Lust for Danger?, Klaus Manhart explains how the vivid sensory rush and the pleasurable thrill of risk taking is linked to the success of our forebears, early human adventurers, gave them a survival edge that remains part of our collective mental hard wiring.

This fascinating issue of Scientific American MIND, ?The Chaos of Consciousness? includes many more articles on human consciousness, neuroscience, psychology and related fields. To get your digital issue visit, www.sciamdigital.com.

Issue table of contents
Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes
People with synesthesias?whose senses blend together?are providing valuable clues to understanding the organization and functions of the human brain.

Lust for Danger
A ruinous night at the roulette table. A bungee jump into an abyss. Such actions defy human reason, but we still seek the thrill.

Smarter on Drugs
We recoil at the idea of people taking drugs to enhance their intelligence. But why?

Big Answers from Little People
In infants, Elizabeth Spelke finds fundamental insights into how men and women think.

The Psychology of Tyranny
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?or does it?

Judging Amy and Andy Contrary to warnings, we can size up people pretty well based on fi rst impressions. -- By Katja Gaschl

The Movie in Your Head
Is consciousness a seamless experience or a string of fleeting images, like frames of a movie? The emerging answer will determine whether the ?real world? is merely an illusion.

Custody Disputed
The guidelines judges and psychologists use to decide child custody cases have little basis in science. The system must be rebuilt on better data.

Mending the Spinal Cord
Researchers are finding ways to help nerves regenerate, and hope for a therapy is growing.

Lighten Up
Seasonal affective disorder?the winter blues?can be lifted with bright light, as long as treatment is timed properly.

Just a Bit Different
With special training early in life, children born with Down syndrome have a higher chance of becoming independent.

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Scientific American MIND is the latest magazine from the publishers of Scientific American magazine. The editors of Scientific American MIND take the reader inside the most riveting breakthroughs in psychology, neuroscience and other related fields. Topics in the magazine include dreaming and consciousness, intelligence and cognition, imagination and emotions, depression and mental illness and perception and understanding.

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