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TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 2010
First Announcement and Call for Abstracts TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 2010 April 12-17, 2010 Tucson Convention Center, Tucson, Arizona Sponsored by: The Center for Consciousness Studies, The University of Arizona Click he...
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Neuroscience Meets Psychoanalysis
From the Dana Foundation: Dr. Pierre Magistretti and Dr. Francois Ansermet spoke with Dana Foundation Chairman William Safire about their book, Biology of Freedom: Neural Plasticity, Experience, and the Unconscious, and the bri...
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Learning, Arts, and the Brain: the Dana Consortium Report on Arts and Cognition
From the Dana Foundation: The Dana Foundation released at a news conference on March 4, Learning, Arts, and the Brain, a three-year study at seven universities, which finds strong links between arts education and cognitive deve...
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Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic
Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic BY FREDERICK GRINNELL OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 248 PAGES Reviewed by Alice Kim From grade school onwards, I was taught that science follows a l...
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Understanding Consciousness, 2nd Edition
Authored by Max Velmans Understanding Consciousness, 2nd Edition provides a unique survey and evaluation of consciousness studies, along with an original analysis of consciousness that combines scientific findings, philosophy ...
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Intuitions About Consciousness: Experimental Studies
Joshua Knobe and Jesse Prinz Article in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Abstract When people are trying to determine whether an entity is capable of having certain kinds of mental states, they can think of it either...
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The Emergence of Consciousness in Phylogeny
Michel Cabanac, Arnaud J. Cabanac, Andre Parent Article in Behavioural Brain Research Abstract The brains of animals show chemical, anatomical, and functional differences, such as dopamine production and structure of sle...
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Falls, Faints, Fits and Funny Turns
Roland D. Thijs, Bastiaan R. Bloem, J. Gert van Dijk Article in Journal of Neurology Abstract In this practically oriented review, we will outline the clinical approach of patients with falls due to an impairment or loss of co...
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Investigating the Awareness of Remembering
Ken A. Paller, Joel L.Voss, Carmen E. Westerberg Article in Perspectives on Psychological Science Abstract There is a marked lack of consensus concerning the best way to learn how conscious experiences arise. In this article, w...
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Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference 2009: Announcement and Call for Papers
(Original posted on 15 Nov. 2008) Investigating Inner Experience Brain, Mind, Technology Hong Kong, China, June 11-14, 2009 www.asiaconsciousness.org/TSC Long a meeting place for Eastern and Western ideas and the media capital ...