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Canadian Psychological Association 72nd Annual Convention
CPA’s 72nd Annual convention is being held in Toronto, Ontario, June 2-4, 2011. Come and connect with fellow CPA colleagues and find out what interesting work people have been conducting in the field of psychology! The Co...
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Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting: 2011
The 18th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting will be held April 2-5, 2011 in San Francisco, California at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Situated right on the Embarcadero waterfront, you are just steps away from the historic Ferry ...
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Mental Training Through Meditation Enhances Attentional Stability
A. Lutz, H. Slagter, et al. Article in Journal of Neuroscience Abstract The capacity to stabilize the content of attention over time varies among individuals, and its impairment is a hallmark of several mental illnesses. Impair...
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Cosmic Symphony — A Deeper Look at Quantum Consciousness
From: ErvinLaszlo.com The rise of quantum consciousness could be the biggest step our species has taken since it came down from the trees. It would bring us to a new stage of species maturity and could also enable us to surm...
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What Makes You Uniquely You?
From: Discovermagazine.com Feb 2009 Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman says your brain is one-of-a-kind in the history of the universe. Some of the most profound questions in science are also the least tangible. What does it mean to...
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“What Babies Want” – An exploration of the Consciousness of Infants
From: WhatBabiesWant.com DVD Documentary starring Charlie Rose, Noah Wyle, and Joseph Chilton Pearce. What Babies Want is an award winning documentary film that explores the profoundly important and sacred opportunity we have i...
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Long-term Memories The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
From The Dana Foundation Editor’s note: Traumatic memories haunt the lives of people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and other illnesses. Fortunately, recent research into the changeability of long-ter...
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6 More Reasons to Meditate
From: Psychology Today Why meditate? Outside of religious contexts, the most common reason is stress management. But as these latest research findings demonstrate, meditation is much more than just a relaxation technique. Here ...
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Why Animals Are Biologically Conscious. The conscious brain has a long evolutionary history.
From: The Blog of Dr. Bernard J. Baars inPsychology Today To the best of our knowledge, consciousness depends upon brains, and brains are biological organs. In a boxing match, a blow to the jaw often leads to a loss of consciou...
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Charlie Rose: The Brain Series
The Charlie Rose Brain Series consists of interviews with some of the most knowledgeable scientists and researchers studying the human brain, including Drs. Eric Kandel and Oliver Sacks. Each monthly episode examines different ...