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Consciousness and Cognition Journal: Table of Contents December 2010
The December issue of Consciousness and Cognition is available online: Volume 19, Issue 4, December 2010 Table of Contents: REGULAR ARTICLES ____________________________________________________________________________________...
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The Exploration of Meditation in the Neuroscience of Attention and Consciousness
A. Raffone and N. Srinivasan Article in Cognitive Processing: International Quarterly of Cognitive Science Abstract: Many recent behavioral and neuroscientific studies have revealed the importance of investigating meditation st...
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No Implants Needed: Movement-Generating Brain Waves Detected and Decoded Outside the Head
From: ScientificAmerican.com New research holds promise for a noninvasive brain-computer interface that allows mental control over computers and prosthetics. Our bodies are wired to move, and damaged wiring is often impossible ...
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A Prescription for Abdominal Pain: Due Diligence
From: NYTimes.com: “For some reason people respect headaches,” said Dr. Carlo Di Lorenzo, a leading pediatric gastroenterologist and a professor of clinical pediatrics at Ohio State. “I’ve never seen a parent or a pedia...
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Tracing the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving
From: NYTimes.com. Check out the puzzles in this article. They look easy, and mostly they are. Click here to see the puzzles. Given three words: trip, house, and goal, for example, find a fourth that will complete a compound wo...
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Breathe In, Breathe Out, Fall in Love
From: NYTimes.com. In the front hall of the Victorian house was a laminated sign that said “Shoes,” and underneath it a row of Birkenstocks and Danskos stretched along the wall. I could hear voices coming from the meditatio...
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Vital Signs; Regimes: Meditation, for the Mind and the Heart
From: NYTimes.com. Could the mental relaxation produced by transcendental meditation have physiological benefits? A study presented last week at the American Heart Association meeting in Orlando, Fla., suggests that it may, at ...
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How Mindfulness Can Make for Better Doctors
From: NYTimes.com One night during my training, long after all the other doctors had fled the hospital, I found a senior surgeon still on the wards working on a patient note. He was a surgeon with extraordinary skill, a doctor ...
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The Same Old Consciousness
From: ErvinLaszlo.com: It makes sense to paraphrase Einstein’s famous dictum in regard to consciousness. Our problem is the unsustainability of the world we have created, and we should be clear that we can’t solve this ...
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‘Consciousness signature’ discovered spanning the brain
From: Newscientist.com: Electrodes implanted in the brains of people with epilepsy might have resolved an ancient question about consciousness. Signals from the electrodes seem to show that consciousness arises from the coor...