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The 13th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping
The 13th annual meeting for the Organization of Human Brain Mapping will be held in Chicago, Illinois at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers from June 10-14. The purpose of the Organization is to advance the understanding o...
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2007 Annual Meeting for the Society for Philosophy and Psychology
The 2007 annual meeting for the Society for Philosophy and Psychology will take place from June 14-17. It will be held on the Keele campus of York University in Toronto, Canada. The stated purpose of the SPP is to promote inter...
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What is the FACT?
The FACT refers to ‘The First Axiom of Consciousness and Thought’ – ‘If a thing is not alive, it cannot be conscious, nor can it think’, a lucid thought if ever one was expressed. Dr. Endel Tulving wrote about...
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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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What is the relation between emotion and consciousness?
What is the relation between emotion and consciousness? In their recent paper in TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences, Tsuchiya and Adolphs review recent studies that address this question. Focusing on domains where emotion and consc...
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Scrub-jays plan for the future
A recent paper in Nature, which came out of Nicky Clayton’s lab at the University of Cambridge, reports on the ability of western scrub-jays to plan for the future. The findings of this paper, by Raby et al., suggest that scr...