or the frontal cortex or the connections between these regions. and particularly in the right hemisphere, actually corresponding areas in the left hemisphere are involved in language in the human brain. but these areas are not only involved in selection, so if you get damage to these first areas you getroblems with attention and selection, but they are also the areas that have been implication-- implicated in conscious awareness. so this global workspace that eric was mentioning, you need to broadcast to the rest of the brain before things become aware. these areas were supposed to be those critical knows broadcasting that information, making thing things consciously aware to the brain. >> what i think is so wonderful about this is we had such a primitive understanding of the biological nature of consciousness even a decade ago. and we don't have a profound understanding now. but at least we're begin tolling understand not only aspects of normal consciousns but really subtle defects of consciousness. you can begin to think about them in biological

and the anterior cingulate cortex regions of the brain the former chairman so a person thinks feels and behaves soul side been alters this activity in the brain thereby opening up a person's personality in thoughts and in the interiors in the anterior cingulate cortex region cilla side and decreases the amount of activity that's occurring therefore decreasing activities associated with depression not only that this research shows the positive effects from shrooms last for as long as twenty five years the possibility that magic mushrooms can help with neurological problems is really nothing new however timothy leary a famous american psychologist was a strong advocate for the use of second psychedelic drugs for the treatment of mental disorders from the one nine hundred sixty s. until his death in one thousand nine hundred six leary who first took solace in one thousand sixty argued that substances like l.s.d. and still aside even when used in a controlled setting a proper dosages and under the guidance of an experienced therapist was beneficial in treating mental disorders from depr

were to scoop your brain out of your head, your fingers would not remember, but there is a motor cortex that remembers the sequence. there is a whole field that studies the sequence, how one movement is remembered in a succession of a sequence. >> the process of creating, trying to start creating music is not that different for me that it is remembering music. it is revoking some kind of image or movement. -- evoking some kind of image or movement. >> can i ask, i am a musician, do you have any advice -- often have trouble losing -- moving away from my everyday and getting into music. do you have any recommendations on how to speed up that context switching? >> i am assuming that as a professional musician, he doesn't have to do with complicated problems. >> you would not want me doing that. believe me. >> still, you have the context switch of being creative, non creative. >> that is true. sometimes you need something to wipe the slate clean. it could be taking a walk. these days, disconnecting. i have a studio. when i go there, is a place to work, i did not need to take my cell phone o

paradoxically what he found was deactivation in the prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain that istor, tell you that is not good enough, inhibiting you from blurting things out. the great improvisers had turned that part of their brain off. from your intuitions as a composer, science is a step behind art, but we were able to find that. just from a player's standpoint, as you develop your skills over time, maybe studied in school, self-pop, but you build up certain skills. when it comes time to improvise or sit down and start to work out something musical, sometimes you have to forget all that stuff. push it out of your mind. it is a handy tool to be able to bring back and say, what am i doing here? i am and 3/4 time, 12 measures of this, and then it is going to go to a bridge or a second measure or something. >> to clarify one point you were talking about, using alternate to earnings -- for those who got not know, there is a standard way of turning the guitar. there are people like alex and david crosby, and joni mitchell, who tune differently to spur creativity or just to play aro

intended recipients officials believe it was the bungled attempts of drug traffickers trying to ship the cortex into the u.s. . new footage from brazil has people running away from a cloud of dust and debris after three buildings collapsed in the region near authorities are still investigating the cause of the collapse but it's believed that illegal construction work was responsible for people who had been confirmed dead by the city's mayor rescue workers are searching for twenty two still missing . now even if you're in florence moscow is never too far away but later on the joy martin angie. takes to the streets of italy in search of a slice of russia. has been a russian orthodox church on the site since mighty mary three built by the russian community and foreign time artists suffered considerable damage over the years but was restored several times elegant and exotic in much is the city's cultural heritage perfectly reflecting in the true architectural style of seventeenth century moscow today the church is popular with orthodox worshippers from all over tuscany. crooners head now with a bus

peace talks at the moment we are assessing are testing the ground for future talks to comply with the cortex demands. of the negotiations are just a way to gain time they say the talking games will not bring about solutions or agreement which will make. that. stand behind that statement. means they want to preserve the status quo something we completely reject all illegal settlements all illegal buildings must be torn down and removed from palestinian territories perhaps the israelis have a different vision although in the past if they have left their illegal settlements on the sinai peninsula and sharm el sheikh and returned back to their borders we have the same situation in lebanon and they'll leave some of the settlements there even with that they want to preserve the existing situation of the palestinian territories and seek to convince the international community to accept that they want to make us accept this vision and that we will never accept it. netanyahu said that he gave you a twenty one point detailing the israeli position what i doing so he refused to meet in ramallah despite.

facing charges of dui manslaughter and nicolaus drive the 22-year-old is expected in cortex.d 8-year- old boy on sunday. >> and 8-year-old is no longer with us. too young. t>> was driving westbound on duke street when his car ran off the rights of appeal road crashing into the a-year-old brian hernandez chavez and his mother. brian was killed. his mother broke and broken legs. >> they figured out immediately what was going on and he will be brought to trial. >> residents say this is a dangerous stretch of road and it was a matter of time. >> you are walking on the side of the street. with it being such a heavy traffic area, you have to constantly pay attention and be hopeful that nothing is going to happen. >> alexandria police say that this is the first a oakwood a crash pin 2012. the hearing scheduled for today gets underway at 9:00 a.m. this morning. reporting live in alexandria, brianne carter. >> police are looking for two men who held up an armored car all of this call on tape. this happened around 8:00 yesterday morning for outside walmart in bowie. the armored car dri

it occurred in part of the prefrontal cortex which regulates emotion and control.rmal day, don't worry, only extreme stress such as being held at gun point shrinks the brain. >>> coming up, a beaming mitt romney moved to song. an american idol, he is not. >>> rival newt gingrich, anything but moon struck as florida voters head to the polls. we'll talk to his super mac master mind. >>> and is respect for the office of the presidency dead among certain republicans? >>> thank you martin. biggest battleground in today's florida primary by be miami-dade county. it's been seeing more visits by republican candidates. thank you for joining me. >> thank you for having me. >> i know you haven't been endorsing any of the gop candidates. with that same miami-dade is crucial. what is the outlook, in your opinion, for mitt romney? >> i think certainly in miami-dade county from the feedback i'm getting from my folks down there, getting exit polls and early voting, it seems to be very favorable for mitt romney. >> that would be impressive if the information holds up. mitt romney f

. >> this is over the frontal cortex. >> reporter: here is your brain looking at a person, and here isits pleasure center, when subjects looked at babies. >> in the higher regions of the brain where emotion and reward is processed, at tremendous speed. >> reporter: in a seventh of a second, a rush like that from ch chocolate or a drug. >> the size of the infant's eye there, the bulging cheeks, much larger forehead. >> reporter: animal babies share the same ratios, in some ways even moor exaggerated, more helpless, they're likely also hit hard on our hardwired love of the baby face. ♪ baby face, you've got the cutest little ♪ >> reporter: and it seems our bar is so low that we can take anything, add a huge forehead, big eyes, cute chubby mouth and the carrot is now cute. and alan stein and kristine parsons found the response to cuteness and how long people chose to look at baby faces was the same in men as women. there's a science behind this? >> there is. there absolutely is and you see the same proportions in that baby photo there. >> reporter: we give in, and keep on clicking on what

it occurred as part of the prefrontal cortex which regulates emotion and self-control.orry, only extreme stress such as being held at gunpoint was shown to shrink the brain. >>> there is a push for more scrutiny of the tsa. rand paul set off an alarm at the nashville airport and refused a full body pat down and they wouldn't let him get on the plane. >> i'm a little confused by the rules myself to tell you the truth. i was on a plane two days ago and the scanner went off and i asked to go back through the scanner and they let me. the rules are different in different airports. they say the rules are the same everywhere but people are interpreting them different. someone has to have some discretion. the whole airport of nashville, no one was able to make a different ruling. they finally called washington and then they did take me back through the screener. jo join. >> joining me is congressman john mica. the tsa says when an irregularity is found during the tsa screening process, it must be resolved prior to allowing a passenger to proceed to the secure area of the airpor

the shrinkage occurred in part of the prefrontal cortex which regulates emotion and self-control, butu feel stressed during your normal day, don't worry. only extreme stress, such as being held at gunpoint, was shown to shrink the brain. >>> we pause together to mourn and honor the valor of our seven "challenger" heroes and i hope we're ready to do what they would want us to do, go forward, america, and reach for the stars. [ applause ] >> the gipper himself using his sixth state of the union address to pay tribute to the astronauts who died in the shuttle "challenger" disaster back in 1986. remember that? that's just one of the many historic moments from a time-honored tradition in our american leadership. nbc's deputy political director mark murray has more for us. >> mr. speaker, the president of the united states. >> reporter: with its pageantry, grand entrance, and rhetoric has been delivered in person or writing 220 times in our nation's history but it's more than another speech. it's also a constitutional requirement. article 2, section 3 of the constitution states the presiden

were so intense from the air force bombing that people running on the streets were caught up in the cortex and thrown skyward. it was blown apart and the animals hattie's cade in the street, people who were in their basements hiding thinking that they were in his dollars and in places they could get away but instead of the air was sucked out by the fire storm and they were suffocated where they sat. for the next couple of months, the occupation changed from working enamelled factory for pregnant women to being a lot the minor and he and the other 50 would go down into these dark cellars some of which were flooded and and you retrieve floating bodies and the there when they buy the against the wall through them over their shoulder, carried them up into the streets and piled them in and enormous he would where people from the concentration camps who had worked with the situations like this doused the bodies with line and set them afire. after about a month of though it became clear that they could no longer bring up the body. so instead they were pulled in and the flames were shot down and t

. >> reporter: they focused on the primary visual cortex, a part of the brain used to process general shapes, textures and movement. >> we want to essentially build a dictionary that translates between things that happen in the world and these different parts of your brain and how they respond. >> reporter: once they built the dictionary, they used it to comb through thousands of hours of video from you-tube, blending together the frames that matched best with their results. this allowed them to make a rough reconstruction of the movies the subjects saw. the images are far from perfect. >> it knows there's a bright vertical thing with a thing sticking out of it. >> reporter: but they've been getting attention from sign tiffs and the public alike. they posted their results online and got more than a million views in less than three days. >> it showed that people actually do care about science. they do care about trying to understand the way the brain works. some people who saw the video thought, wow, this is wonderful. scientists progressing. this is so neat. you can use this for a mil