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Cognition & Emotion – latest issue
A new issue of Cognition & Emotion is out. Articles include the following topics: emotional awareness response inhibition conditioning Click through for the TOC and links.
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The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness
Edited by Max Velmans, Susan L. Schneider The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness is the most thorough and comprehensive survey of contemporary scientific research and philosophical thought on consciousness currently available...
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Patients with hippocampal amnesia cannot imagine new experiences
Adding to the recent surge of studies on future thinking, Hassabis and colleagues recently reported the results they obtained from testing amnesic patients with bilateral hippocampal damage. Compared to healthy control particip...
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What do we hear with our eyes?
Would we hear things differently if we always kept our eyes closed? The answer is yes! The McGurk Effect is a classic illustration of how the spoken sounds we hear are influenced by whether or not we can see the speaker’s lip...
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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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Video: A patient who was stuck in a minimally conscious state for 20 years
TIME and CNN present an interesting video on Sarah Scantlin, a patient who suffers from severe brain damage. After being stuck in what was thought to be a vegetative state for 20 years, Sarah has recently regained her ability t...
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The Multi-Source Interference Task
Abstract of The Multi-Source Interference Task: an fMRI task that reliably activates the cingulo-frontal-parietal cognitive/attention network, in Nature. In this protocol we describe how to perform the Multi-Source Interference...
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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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