I am sitting here, a week more to go before my odyssey at NBRC ends, with a myriad of feelings, joy, regret, panic, fear, extreme bursts of fun, whatnot. It will probably take me months to write about whatever i wanted to write. But i shall put myself through it for sure. I had been complaining of lack of back-breaking work,but, it did turn out to be a blessing in guise indeed. I did read quite a few things that were simply, mind-blowing, for want of a better word.
The study of cognition is my area of research this summer and it sort of overlaps with psychology quite a bit, in a sense that i do behavioral studies. This area of study is very much intriguing, for u study about a machine, called the brain, using that machine itself, how wonderful!!! I shall talk about it later. Right now, I read this beautiful article about 'the feeling of regret' in animals. I thought this whole feeling of 'i should have done this instead of that' and the self instrospection that occurs in the aftermath of an event that goes terrible wrong is restricted only to humans. But animals also? I simply can't imagine. Probably i have never given it a thought. Read until the very end even if u feel bored.. It's worth it!
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Happy reading!
