Neuroscience Answers on Quora
Lately I have been answering neuroscience questions on Quora, a recently popular Q&A website. Here is a Quora blog of top answers as well as some representative answers below.
General:
- What does the world look like through the eyes of neuroscience?
- Why do we sleep?
- How has the brain evolved since life began?
Memory:
- How are memories stored in the human brain?
- How does the brain decide which memories to store?
- Is there any redundancy in human memory?
- Are memories stored physically?
- Why is forgetting different for driving and calculus?
- Why is it difficult to remember things from before 3-5 years of age?
- Why do I sometimes confuse memories of dreams with memories of reality?
Visual Perception:
- How can we see images in our mind?
- Is everyone's experience of color the same?
- Where in the human perceptual system does color blindness occur?
- What is black?
- How do we know when someone is looking at us?
Consciousness:
- What is consciousness?
- Is there such a thing as the subconscious?
- Is consciousness an emergent property of the brain or a fundamental property of matter?
- How many neurons are needed to create a conscious entity?
- What is dreaming and why do we do it?
- Why aren't there smells in dreams?