by Todd | Knowledge, Research
We take our astonishing visual capabilities so much for granted that few of us ever stop to consider how we actually see. For decades, scientists have likened our visual-processing machinery to a television camera: the eye’s lens focuses incoming light onto an array...
by Todd | Altered States, Creativity, Hypnagogia, Light Machine, Psychedelic, Video
Vidvox.net review this Intriguing PandoraStar collaboration… Their reporter tells us “One of the best parts of being a new media artist is having the ability to connect so many different ideas and tools together, both literally and figuratively. Recently... by Todd | Gamma Waves, Healing, Knowledge, Memory
In March 2015, Li-Huei Tsai set up a tiny disco for some of the mice in her laboratory. For an hour each day, she placed them in a box lit only by a flickering strobe. The mice — which had been engineered to produce plaques of the peptide amyloid-β in the brain, a... 
by Todd | Alpha Waves, Beta Waves, Delta Waves, Healing, Research, Theta Waves
The effects of a single session of audio-visual stimulation (AVS) at the dominant alpha rhythm and twice-dominant alpha frequency on EEG coherence were studied in 23 subjects. An eyes-closed baseline EEG determined each subject’s dominant alpha frequency.... 
by Todd | Alpha Waves, Creativity, Gamma Waves, Healing, Meditation
Neuroscientists recently made a correlation between an increase of alpha brain waves—either through electrical stimulation or mindfulness and meditation—and the ability to reduce depressive symptoms and increase creative thinking. Our various states of consciousness...