Tuesday, July 03, 2007

A social/musical at Twin Valley

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Every year or two my partner Len and I host a social afternoon on a Sunday from 3-6 at our home on Twin Valley Road in the Town of Middleton...

Science of the Soul

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I recommend this engaging article by Cornelia Dean ( PDF here ) on how evolutionary biologists and cognitive scientists are discovering phys...
Monday, July 02, 2007

Face perception by distributed cortical networks.

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Continuing to pass along material from talks given at the recent ASSC meeting, here is the abstract and some figures from an interesting bit...
Friday, June 29, 2007

A Schubert Scherzo

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....from his Sonata No. 10. I thought I might slip in another of my brief recordings, a bit of relief from the heavy neuroscience...

Role of the amygdala in visual awareness.

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There have been several reports that subliminal stimuli (such as flashing a picture of an angry face for 33 msec) can activate the amygdal...
Thursday, June 28, 2007

Perception Without a Perceiver

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Rafeal Malach gave an interesting talk at the recent ASSC meeting (PDF of article here ) on work from his group that he thinks: challenges t...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

The Science of Gaydar

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This is the title of an excellent article in New York Magazine, mentioned also in MindHacks .

Language without recursion...

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My april 26 post dealt with a New Yorker article describing the work of Dan Everett on the language of an Amazon people which he interprets...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Esthetic experience and mirror neurons - motion, emotion and empathy

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David Freedberg (Art History, Columbia Univ.) and Vittorio Gallese (Neuroscience, Parma) offer an interesting perspective on possible relat...
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Monday, June 25, 2007

Greetings from Las Vegas and the ASSC meeting

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This is the last day of the annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. I'm going to wait and work up...

The most popular posts on MindBlog

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I subscribe to a service offered at feedburner.com that lets you see details of the traffic on your blog. I am passing on the titles of the...

New steps in memory consolidation

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Paz et al show how the hippocampal-medial prefrontal cortex interactions thought to support memory consolidation are enhanced by correlated...
Friday, June 22, 2007

Horniness of male mice - up and down with estrogen

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Here is the abstract from Taziaux et al . Might this tempt pharmaceutical companies to go for a human male equivalent? Estrogens are classic...

Debunking Phrenology - oscillating networks control behavior

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Robert K. Night writes a perspective in Science (PDF here ) on how neural networks support goal-directed behavior: Systems neuroscience aims...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Deric off to Magic and Consciousness in Las Vegas - ASSC meeting

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I'm taking off now for the annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness meeting in Las Vegas, June 22-25...
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Most popular consciousness papers for May

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From the Assoc. for the Scientific Study of Consciousness eprint committee, the five most popular (i.e. most downloaded from the eprint arc...

Brain responses revealing motives for charitable donations.

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A recent study by Harbaught et al. finds that three very different things—monetary payoffs to oneself, observing a charity get money, ...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007

A consciousness researcher database.

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The Mind Science Foundation website provides a consciousness researcher database that you might use to look up some of the notables in the...

Is there wisdom in disgust? - moral psychology

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Dan Jones writes an interesting essay in a recent issue of Science (PDF here ) on how work in evolutionary theory, moral philosophy, and neu...

Genuine vs. Fake smiles, can you tell the difference?

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This neat test from the BBC, based on Paul Ekman's work.
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