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The Medial Temporal Lobe Distinguishes Old from New Independently of Consciousness
There is an interesting paper, The Medial Temporal Lobe Distinguishes Old from New Independently of Consciousness in The Journal of Neuroscience. The novel part is that the MTL novelty distinction can operate at an unconscious ...
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Pain in the brain
Pain is one of the most prominent examples of the problem of consciousness: from a subjective point of view we know the experience of pain all too well. Seen from the objective side of pain, the neural processes related to pain...
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How the brain becomes aware of errors
For a long time psychologists have devised methods to make people erroneous on a task. A well-known example is the Stroop effect, a demonstration of interference in the reaction time of a task. When a word such as blue, green, ...
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Multiple Dimensions Shape Our Perception Of Mind
Multiple Dimensions Shape Our Perception Of Mind, Harvard Study Suggests Through an online survey of more than 2,000 people, psychologists at Harvard University have found that we perceive the minds of others along two distinct...
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Prosthetic arm with a feel
Surgeons have managed to give an amputee not only a prosthetic arm that moves as directed by her thoughts, but also the feeling of touch — albeit in the wrong part of her body. When Claudia Mitchell presses an area on her che...
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On becoming aware of what you eat
A recent review article explores how we become aware of the (integrated) flavor of food. Abstract: In recent years, progress has been made understanding the neural correlates of consciousness. Experimental and computational dat...
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Philosophy of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology
Following the success of PPNB 2005 in Oxford, the CONTACT project is hosting PPNB 2007 in Bristol and PPNB 2008 in Edinburgh. We aim to bring together young researchers interested in mind-world relations, to address philosophic...
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Jane Goodall Podcast
ABC Radio National in Australia has an excellent podcast on a talk by Jane Goodall , an English primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist, who is well known for conducting a forty-five year study of chimpanzee social and fam...
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Video-Articles: Call for Submissions
Dear Scientist, I invite you to submit a video-article on your experiments to the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE). JoVE is a newly founded journal devoted to visualized (video-based) publication of biological research....