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Call for papers: Psychophysiology — cognitive and affective processes
Psychophysiology was the first journal dedicated to the publication of research on relationships between the physiological and psychological aspects of brain and behavior, and it remains the most well-established journal in thi...
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Brain conference 2008
Combining the latest research foci and treatment modalities, the Second Annual International Brain Conference at UCF offers physicians, scientists, pharmaceuticals, medical device manufacturers, nurses, allied medical professio...
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What is happening in the brain when our minds wander?
It seems like science still has a ways to go before this question can be answered, but scientists have already started the investigation. In a recent study, Mason and colleagues used fMRI and thought sampling to study which are...
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The Medial Temporal Lobe Distinguishes Old from New Independently of Consciousness
There is an interesting paper, The Medial Temporal Lobe Distinguishes Old from New Independently of Consciousness in The Journal of Neuroscience. The novel part is that the MTL novelty distinction can operate at an unconscious ...
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How the brain becomes aware of errors
For a long time psychologists have devised methods to make people erroneous on a task. A well-known example is the Stroop effect, a demonstration of interference in the reaction time of a task. When a word such as blue, green, ...
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The Mystery of Consciousness
There is an interesting article in TIME, by Steven Pinker, about the study of consciousness. From the article: As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This ...
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Self-projection and the brain
Abstract of Self-projection and the brain, in Trends in Cognitive Science: When thinking about the future or the upcoming actions of another person, we mentally project ourselves into that alternative situation. Accumulating da...
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Mind Hacks
Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain (Hacks) by Tom Stafford, Matt Webb The brain is a fearsomely complex information-processing environment–one that often eludes our ability to understand it. At any given time, the bra...