Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Exchange on religion between Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan

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I would like to suggest that you read the Jan. 25 installment (scroll down a bit to get to it) of a correspondence that has been playing ...
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Knowing without doing

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Lerchner et al write a review in Nature Neuroscience of an article by Atallah et al . in the same issue which shows clear evidence that lea...
Tuesday, January 30, 2007

The pianist in the mirror - human mirror neuron systems for motor learning

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A Society for Neuroscience news release (pointed out to me by colleague Robin Chapman ) focuses on a new imaging study that shows that wh...
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Monday, January 29, 2007

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Claude Debussy, Reverie A number of comments have come in on this recording. The critical one is good. Enter mdbownds in the YouTube searc...

The insula and addiction to smoking.

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I've mentioned in a previous post the growing evidence that the insula is the 'sensory cortex' of the body interior, representi...
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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Biology's next revolution

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This article really is worth reading. "The emerging picture of microbes as gene-swapping collectives demands a revision of such conc...

Quote for the day...George Bush and Reality

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This quote from the start of John Horgan's review in Nature of "Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Admin...
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Friday, January 26, 2007

You've made up your mind before you know it...

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Yet another morsel for neuro-marketers and neuro-ethicists: Hampton and O'Doherty report functional MRI data showing that the outcome ...
Thursday, January 25, 2007

The perils of studying gay sheep

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Pity the poor researcher, Charles Roselli at Oregon health and Science University, who set out to discover what physiological factors might ...

Neural basis of the Wandering Mind?

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Mason et al. have used both thought sampling (by verbal report) and brain imaging to demonstrate that mind-wandering (i.e. day dreaming t...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

How the brain rewires itself.

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This is only one of the articles in the recent Time Magazine issue featuring the brain. It contains links to the rest of the articles, al...
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Early Experience Determines How the Senses Will Interact

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This is the title of a fascinating article by Wallace and Stein in the January issue of the Journal of Neurophysiology. They reared cats ...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Magical Thinking

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Benedict Carey writes an engaging article in the Science section of today's New York Times (1/23/07) on why otherwise very rational peo...

Amnesia for the Future

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It looks like the prevailing view of what our hippocampus does is about to undergo a major revision. Greg Miller writes a review in Scienc...
Monday, January 22, 2007

Neural Cascade of Attentional Control

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The January 2007 of PLoS Biology contains an interesting article on the Top-Down Control of our Visual-Spatial Attention by Grent-‘t-Jong a...
Friday, January 19, 2007

Shopping Centers in the Brain

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This is the title of revew by Dagher in the Jan 4 issue of Neuron of an article by Knutson et al. in the same issue that tests a neuroeco...
Thursday, January 18, 2007

OK, Materialists, Naturalists, and Humanists, where's the beef?

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Looking over the Center for Naturalism website in the previous post nudges me to make a request: I would be grateful for the assistance of...

More on the Free Will debate......

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I want to relay here a comment from Tom Clark, Center for Naturalism , to my Jan. 4 post on Overbye's NY Times free will article, so ...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Happiness and human evolution...

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I've done some posts on defining happiness and how important social intimacy might or might not be. Several major magazines, includin...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007

The evolution of cooperation: why the whites of our eyes are large.

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Michael Tomasello, co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, offers an interesting speculation in a ...
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