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ASSC 2007
The 11th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness will take place between June 22nd and June 25th, 2007, at the Imperial Palace Hotel, Las Vegas. ASSC11 will promote interdisciplinary dialogue...
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Film – Victim of the Brain
Victim of the Brain is a 1988 docudrama by Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos about “the ideas of Douglas Hofstadter”. It features interviews with Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett. It has never been online before, ...
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An artificial sixth sense
Wired has a story about new sensory prosthetics giving people a sense of magnetic north, “tactile vision”, etc. Subjects report that they even dream in their new senses.
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ASSC eprint archive
Scientists active in the field may already know about the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness‘ eprint archive, but we haven’t mentioned it on SCR before and it was high-time we did. Check out the a...
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Now accepting comments and newsletter subscriptions
We’ve gone the past few weeks without any hiccups so user registration (for comments) and newsletter subscriptions are now open to all. Note that if you were previously subscribed to our newsletter you’ll have to re...
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Aggression gene and impulse control
A version of a gene previously linked to impulsive violence appears to weaken brain circuits that regulate impulses, emotional memory and thinking in humans, researchers at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Nation...
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The Role Of Evolutionary Genomics In The Development Of Autism
In an article to be published in a forthcoming issue of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Dr Christopher Badcock and Professor Bernard Crespi explore the ‘imprinted brain hypothesis’ to explain the cause and effect o...
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