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TERMODINAMICA, CAMPI QUANTICI E FUNZIONI MENTALI
2010
Nel tentativo di fornire spiegazioni esaurienti sul fenomeno della mente umana, il presente saggio scientifico di anatomia comparata e di fisiologia considera alcune tesi di fondo che si collegano a nuovi parametri fisici della realtà che ci circonda.
Musical sound processing in the human brain. Evidence from electric and magnetic recordings.
2001
Recently, our knowledge regarding the brain's ability to represent invariant features of musical information even during the performance of a simultaneous task (unrelated to the sounds) has accumulated rapidly. Recordings of the change-specific mismatch negativity component of event-related brain potentials have shown that temporally and spectrally complex sounds as well as their relations are automatically processed by human auditory cortex. Furthermore, recent magnetoencephalographic and positron emission topographic investigations indicate that this processing differs between phonetic and musical sounds within and between the cerebral hemispheres. These data thus suggest that despite the…
FISICA QUANTISTICA E FUNZIONI MENTALI SUPERIORI III
2010
Questo saggio riprende alcuni concetti di anatomia comparata e di fisiologia, sviluppati in una mia precedente ricerca dal titolo Termodinamica, campi quantici e funzioni mentali. Il fine è di chiarire alcuni punti controversi posti dall’analisi scientifica, in riguardo a teoremi di neuro anatomia e di neurofisiologia. Il filosofo Heiddegger H. riteneva che il pensiero umano non può affidarsi interamente all’indagine scientifica, traducendo in schemi ed in formule la vivente realtà della natura, sia fisica che biologica. La ricerca scientifica si basa su un sapere rigoroso e preciso, altamente dimostrativo che può competere con la matematica, ritenuta la scienza delle scienze. Nonostante ci…
FISICA QUANTISTICA E FUNZIONI CEREBRALI SUPERIORI (II)
2010
Data una semplice perturbazione, il processo lineare tende a rimanere leggermente alterato. Data la stessa perturbazione, un processo non lineare tende a tornare al suo punto di partenza. Huygens C. (fisico olandese del XVI sec.) inventò l’orologio a pendolo e la disciplina classica della dinamica. S’imbatté in uno dei grandi esempi di questa forma di regolazione. Huygens notò che vari orologi a pendolo, appoggiati contro una parete stavano oscillando in modo perfettamente sincronizzato. Sapeva che gli orologi non potevano essere così precisi. Huygens ipotizzò che gli orologi fossero coordinati da vibrazioni trasmesse attraverso la parete. Al presente, il fenomeno è definito agganciamento d…
FISICA QUANTISTICA E FUNZIONI CEREBRALI SUPERIORI.
2010
Functional Brain Segmentation Using Inter-Subject Correlation in fMRI
2016
The human brain continuously processes massive amounts of rich sensory information. To better understand such highly complex brain processes, modern neuroimaging studies are increasingly utilizing experimental setups that better mimic daily‐life situations. A new exploratory data‐analysis approach, functional segmentation inter‐subject correlation analysis (FuSeISC), was proposed to facilitate the analysis of functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) data sets collected in these experiments. The method provides a new type of functional segmentation of brain areas, not only characterizing areas that display similar processing across subjects but also areas in which processing across subjects is h…
Isolation and molecular characterization of brain microvascular endothelial cells from human brain tumors.
2002
Brain tumor formation and growth is accompanied by the proliferation and infiltration of blood capillaries. The phenotypes of endothelial cells that make up capillaries are known to differ not only in the tissues in which endothelial cells are located but also as a result of the microenvironment to which they are exposed. For this reason, primary cultures of brain endothelial cells were isolated from human brain tumors removed by surgery and compared with cells from normal tissue. The primary confluent monolayers that grew out of isolated capillary fragments consisted of closely associated, elongated, fusiform-shaped cells. But brain tumor-derived endothelial cells in culture exhibited sign…
Processing of audiovisual associations in the human brain: dependency on expectations and rule complexity
2012
In order to respond to environmental changes appropriately, the human brain must not only be able to detect environmental changes but also to form expectations of forthcoming events. The events in the external environment often have a number of multisensory features such as pitch and form. For integrated percepts of objects and events, crossmodal processing, and crossmodally induced expectations of forthcoming events are needed. The aim of the present study was to determine whether the expectations created by visual stimuli can modulate the deviance detection in the auditory modality, as reflected by auditory event-related potentials (ERPs). Additionally, it was studied whether the complexi…
Suppression of extinction with TMS in humans: from healthy controls to patients.
2006
We review a series of studies exemplifying some applications of single-pulse and paired-transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in the study of spatial attention and of its deficits. We will focus primarily on sensory extinction, the failure to consciously perceive a contralesional sensory stimulus only during bilateral stimulation of homologous surfaces. TMS studies in healthy controls show that it is possible either to interfere or modulate the excitability of the parietal cortex during sensory (i.e. tactile and visual) attentional tasks, thus reproducing a condition of virtual extinction. TMS studies in patients with unilateral (mainly right) brain damage show that the modulation of the …