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Motivation and Emotion — New issue
Volume 30 Number 1 of Motivation and Emotion is now available on the www.springerlink.com web site at http://www.springerlink.com. Please find below the latest table of contents for your registered journal and book alert. By cl...
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Emotion — New issue out
A new issue of Emotion is now out: Volume 6, Issue 3 Documenting and Explaining the Common AAB Pattern in Music and Humor: Establishing and Breaking Expectations.
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Episodic memory – From brain to mind
Hippocampus has a special issue on episodic memory and how it is studied. It is a comprehensive and thought provoking gathering of some of the front-end researchers in this field. Among the claims made in this issue, one can me...
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Conscious and Unconscious Memory Linked in Storing New Information
The way the brain stores new, conscious information such as a first kiss or a childhood home is strongly linked to the way the human brain stores unconscious information, researchers at Yale report this month in an article feat...
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Ramachandran interview
Sashi Kumar has a conversation with Professor V.S. Ramachandran, world-renowned explorer of the human brain, on neuroscience, philosophy, consciousness and beyond.
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Is language changing your personality?
Can language alter your personality? In this study by Ramírez-Esparza et al. results suggest that switching between language in Spanish and English bilinguals also changes personality traits.
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Greater control in Tourette’s
New evidence suggests that young people with Tourette’s syndrome actually exhibit a greater level of cognitive control over their movements than their non-affected peers do.
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Inhibiting the executive brain
A new study using Transcranial magnetic stimulation now identifies sub-components in executive functioning and their neural substrates.
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Thalamic lesions and consciousness
What happens following injury to the thalamus? In this case study Edelstyn, Hunter & Ellis demonstrate a patient with dorsolateral thalamic damage with specific deficits in conscious processing.