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Metapsychology book review
New book reviews are available from Metapsychology Online. Here we link to the most relevant texts.
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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
A new issue of Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience is out with articles relevant for consciousness studies. We feature here a selection of some of the abstracts.
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Understanding Emotions
Keith Oatley and Jennifer M. Jenkins’s best-selling book on the psychology of emotions is the most highly regarded and engaging text for the emotions course. While retaining its interdisciplinary breadth, historical insig...
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Call for tutorial proposals, ASSC10
CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS 10TH ANNUAL MEETING St. Anne’s College, Oxford June 23 – June 26, 2006 The tenth annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific...
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Stressing the brain to forget
Are memories formed under stressful situations the same as those formed under normal, neutral situations? A study by Payne et al demonstrates that this is not the case. Stress induces very specific alterations in emotional memo...
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Center for Naturalism February Newsletter
The Center for Naturalism (www.naturalism.org) has sent out its February newsletter, which includes updates on events, articles and presentations, online resources and much more. We bring here a snip of Dennett’s TW Clark...
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Serotonin and mood
A new study demonstrates the relationship between subjective reports of mood and the level of (5-HT) serotonin levels in the blood. While this serotonine marker predicts positive affect very well, it does not for negative mood.
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Brain physiology and unconscious states
The distinction between different kinds of unconscious states such as anaesthesia, coma, vegetative state, minimally conscious state and locked-in syndrome are hard to draw. One of the methods used as tools for distinguishing b...
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61 Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena
Here is an excellent resource for different visual illusion and phenomena. Michael Bach has made an impressive collection of different illusions. Each illusion is also accompanied by descriptions of how and why they work. Many ...