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New books for SCR review

Dear all, As recently announced, we now present a list of books that are approved for review at the Science & Consciousness Review. If you are interested in reviewing a particular book (or a book not listed here), please se...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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San Marino Summer School on Social Cognition and Social Narrative

APPLICATION DEADLINE 1 March 2008. Please let your grad students know about this. The European Science Foundation and the ESF project Consciousness in a Natural and Cultural Context is sponsoring a one-week interdisciplinary co...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Cheap drugs against aggression don’t work

Study shows placebos as good as antipsychotics for the intellectually disabled. Scientists have discovered that taking a sugar pill is more effective than routine medications in treating aggression in people with intellectual d...
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
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Ageing makes the imagination wither

Memory decline in old age may also mean a less vivid imagination. Stitching together personal details gets harder as we get older. Old age does more than stealthily steal away our most cherished memories: it also seems to dimin...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Decision making, impulsivity and time perception

Time is an important dimension when individuals make decisions. Specifically, the time until a beneficial outcome can be received is viewed as a cost and is weighed against the benefits of the outcome. We propose that impulsive...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Altered emotional response in bipolar mania

Psychiatric illnesses are often good models for testing the functional relationship between specific regions of the brain. At the same time, one may gain insight into the neurocognitive mechanisms behind a specific disease. Thi...
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
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Personality & Individual Differences — new issue

A new issue of the journal Personality and Individual Differences (Volume 44, Issue 3) hosts a number of interesting articles including: Trait-anxiety and repressors: Suppression of recall for aversive images Pages 550-562 Doug...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Cognition & Emotion new issue

A new issue of Cognition & Emotion is out, including articles on emotional memory and awareness, music and emotions, and anger-induction methods.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Call for book reviewers

SCR is expanding! We now call for people that are interested in reviewing books. Recently published and forthcoming books are often made available to SCR, and we have the opportunity to bring you the latest news on the consciou...
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
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The trivial function of sleep

Rest in poikilothermic animals is an adaptation of the organism to adjust to the geophysical cycles, a doubtless valuable function for all animals. In this review, we argue that the function of sleep could be trivial for mammal...