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A Unique Approach to Science Education
Scientific integration + media synthesis + The Feeling Brain. Better communication in science and education can have vast ripple effects for advancing creativity, innovation, entrepreneurialism and humanity.
brain imaging
Walter J. Freeman: How Brains Generate Meaning
Walter J. Freeman III, MD, PhD is an American biologist, theoretical neuroscientist and philosopher who has conducted pioneering research in how brains generate meaning. He is Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology and Member, Grad...
anthropology
Sex with our evolutionary ancestors? Proceed with caution
A paper published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides a compelling alternative to the idea that we Homo sapiens interbred with Neandertals or Denisovans as had previously been thought. By D...
MBSci
Consciousness Online: Jesse Prinz on the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness
Jesse Prinz, a philosopher at the City University of New York, takes up the question of the unity of consciousness. He then explores the implications and experimental support for this claim.
MBSci
Consciousness Online: Colin Clifford on the Neural Signature of Consciousness
Colin Clifford, a psychologist at the University of Sydney, is involved in the so-called mind reading movement in neuroscience. In this video presentation, Clifford offers an accessible and rigorous introduction to this new an...
MBSci
Consciousness Online: Hakwan Lau on the Higher-Order Theory of Consciousness
Hakwan Lau, a cognitive neuroscientist at Columbia University and the Donders Institute, is interested in empirically testing philosophical theories of consciousness. In this talk he presents the results of his experiments that...
cognitive neuroscience
Bruce Mangan, PhD: Cognition, Fringe Consciousness + Convergent Phenomenology
Bruce Mangan, PhD received an interdisciplinary PhD in Cognitive Science and Aesthetics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991. He has taught there since in various capacities, inaugurating the Scientific Approach...
attention
Zoran Josipovic, PhD: The Functioning of Anti-Correlated Neural Networks
Dr. Zoran Josipovic is the Director/Principal Investigator of the Contemplative Science Lab, a Research Associate and an Adjunct Professor at Psychology Department and Center for Neural Science, New York University. His main in...
brain networks
Stuart Firestein, PhD: Pleasures of Scientific Mystery and the Cultivation of Doubt
Dr. Stuart Firestein is the Chair of Columbia University’s Department of Biological Sciences where his highly popular course on ignorance invites working scientists to come talk to students each week about what they don’...
brain imaging
Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy, PhD: Value Based Decision Making + Ethics in Research
Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy, PhD is Senior Researcher and heading the Decision Neuroscience Research Group, a collaboration between the Copenhagen Business School and the Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance. Ramsøy wasÂ...
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