Inhibition and Reward
With all of the disagreements outstanding in this field, the least we can do is clear the semantic hurdles that may stand in the way of synthesis. One issue that is still outstanding, but can easily be dispatched, concerns how we think about inhibits. In the past I have variously contrasted Sue’s largely reward-based training […]
Hudspeth’s Method of Coherence Analysis
Author: Larry Lewis I first encountered Bill Hudspeth’s method of coherence analysis in his presentation at the Connectivity Conference in Armonk NY on July 29-31, 2005; and I am writing this exposition of his method because it seemed to me that his work deserves to be more widely known. Not only is his approach highly […]
A Program for Migraines
Aging is not what it used to be. I have the impression that in some significant respects my own health is actually improving over the years, and that has mainly to do with my increasing understanding of self-regulation in the context of a general growth in awareness of alternative health. The same is true most […]
Women in Science
When Larry Summers casually interjected his by-now famous comments into a discussion of women in science, he found out that the President of Harvard University cannot just shed his label and make off-the-cuff remarks without it gaining notice. Summers suggested that a shortage of native ability might be one of the reasons that women did […]
The Connectivity Conference
The Connectivity Conference in Armonk, New York, brought together a number of people engaged in synchrony and coherence training or the corresponding analysis. Speakers were brought together by invitation from Michael Gismondi, organizer of the conference. As a user of a variety of neurofeedback instruments, he realized that a focus on coherence training would be […]
Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome–An update
We just attended the annual conference on Irlen Syndrome, sponsored by Helen Irlen and her staff, and held here in Long Beach. This was the twentieth anniversary of Helen Irlen’s work, subsequent to her discovery of Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome in 1983. The conference was a warm and spunky affair. There was still the sense of […]
More on ADHD
The July issue of Scientific American features an article about cognitive therapy as an alternative to ADHD drugs. The work proceeds from the assumption that cognitive deficits in general, and working memory deficits in particular, are among the defining features in ADHD, and yet are only marginally addressed with stimulant medication. According to Rosemary Tannock […]
Science and Religion
The recent newsletter on this subject was intended to highlight the impulse within science to present a complete theory, in the face of the ineluctable reality that completeness can never be proved. We are bound by our hypotheses, and to assert that these allow for no reality beyond the hypotheses is to confuse the map […]