Thursday, March 18, 2010

Phoebe Network of Trust hosts teen maze

Phoebe Network of Trust hosts teen maze

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ALBANY, GA (WALB) – All the choices you make each day, may make you feel like you're wandering through a maze. The choices you make today will impact your future. That's why 7th Graders from Dougherty County schools were led through the Get a life teen maze at Albany State Wednesday.

It's an interactive life simulation where students are shown the positive and negative consequences of their behavior and life choices. Some can lead to STDs, some to death as this casket represents, but good decisions can help them cross the stage at graduation and be rewarded. We found one group of students in a jail cell.

"I used a fake ID to buy alcohol for the party so I got sent to jail," said Dajah Washington of her experience.

Jazmine Mace said, "I think it's good to make the right decisions now, because what you make now in your teen life will always follow you."

Organizer Eddie McBride said, "Once you make the decisions here, it's in a safe atmosphere, but just like in real life, if you make a decision, you can't undo the decisions you made in real life."

The teen maze was coordinated by Phoebe's Network of Trust and community partners.


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Robert Cross Middle Magnet School students “go to jail” for a poor life decision while participating in a “Get a Life” teen maze at Albany State University Wednesday.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Brain replays control decision-making process

Replaying recent events in the hippocampus of the brain has more to do with active decision-making process than with creating long-term memories, according to a new study.

Conducted by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Minnesota Medical School, the study of rats navigating a maze found that replays occurring in the hippocampus were not necessarily recent or frequent paths through the maze, as would be expected if the event was being added to memory.

On the other hand, the replays often were paths that the rats had rarely taken or, in some cases, had never taken, as if the rats were trying to build maps to help them make better navigation decisions.

Dr. Anoopum Gupta, and his colleagues said that their findings suggest replays in the hippocampus are not merely passive echoes of past events, but part of a complex, active process of decision-making.

"Our work provides clues into how animals construct a complete, fully navigable representation of their environment, even if they’ve only partially explored that environment. The cognitive maps created in this way may allow animals to plan novel routes or shortcuts. As we learn more about the neural mechanisms that enable animals to flexibly navigate through the world, we hope to apply those lessons to research in robotics that could improve autonomous navigation systems," said Gupta.

The team used electrode ‘hats’ to record brain activity of rats as they navigated a maze. In particular, they monitored certain neurons, called place cells, which fire in response to physical locations.

That enabled the researchers to identify where an event that was being replayed was located based on which place cells were firing.

During an experiment, a rat might be in one portion of the maze, while the firing of place cells in the hippocampus indicated that the rat was replaying information about a different location.

On a task with two behavioral sequences, A and B, the researchers found that the animals would replay sequence B more often though they spent most of their time running sequence A.

This meant that the rats were most likely to replay the path they had experienced less often, which indicated that replay is not just a function of helping an animal remember what it has experienced most frequently or most recently, but an important function in helping it map its whole environment.

During the replay process, the research team also was able to observe the animal making connections between paths that it had never physically traveled before.

This further suggested that replay plays a role in helping an animal learn and maintain the entire map of its environment and make connections within it.

The rats were not just reviewing recent experience to move it to long-term memory.

The study was published in the journal Neuron.

Want to test the theory, try solving some of these mazes, created by Yonatan Frimer
The maze entrances and exits are marked by arrows.


Maze of the statue of david, by Yonatan Frimer
maze of david by michaelangelomaze of Michalangelo's david statue of marble in italy
Maze Portrait Of Michalangelo's David

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Maze cartoon - Team Of monkeys maze
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Maze portrait of Madonna, by Yonatan Frimer
Madonna Ciccone Portrait Maze

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Maze portrait of Lilly Allen, by Yonatan Frimer
Maze of Lily Allen
Maze of Lily Allen


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Freemason Monkeys -
Illuminati's building a wall
- Maze
freemason monkeys - illuminati apes
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Monkeys For Justice - Team Of Monkeys Judicial Panel
Monkey judges, justic, courtroom, sternographers
Monkey Judges Maze:
"Trained to dispense justice in even the most difficult legal cases"
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Mazes of a Rose, Karl Marx, Ataturk and Lennon, By Yonatan Frimer

Maze of a rose - Flower Maze
Maze of a rose
Don't forget to water your mazes.

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Team Of Monkeys Maze Cartoon
Ink Blot Mazes, Maze Art

Mazes of the World, UNITE
Maze portrait of Karl Marx
Karl Marx Maze communism
Communist Maze-festo
Workers of the world UNITE! You have nothing to lose but your chains

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Team Of Monkeys Maze Cartoon
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Kemal Mustafa Ataturk - Maze
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Peace at home, peace in the world - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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Team Of Monkeys Maze Cartoon
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John Lennon Psychedelic Maze Portrait
Imagine All The MAzes
Imagine All The Mazes

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Team Of Monkeys Maze Cartoon
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