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Brain areas disconnect during deep sleep
Experiments shed light on what happens to consciousness during sleep. Article from MSNBC.com reproduced below.
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Consciousness & Cognition — special issue on self
The latest issue of Consciousness & Cognition is a special edition dedicated to the scientific study of “The brain and its self”. For background topics see Wikipedia or SCR articles
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Phenomenolgy & the Cognitive Sciences
The recent issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences contains articles on topics such as: self-awareness schizophrenia and threat perception memory and the brain the philosophy of neuroscience
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Discovery localizes visual awareness
A new discovery published in PNAS, from researchers at Dartmouth College and the Barrow Neurological Institute offers new insight into the localization of visual awareness of simple unattended targets in the visual system. Open...
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Making your brain crave a cola
Jay Ingram reports in The Star about some evidence that subliminal ads work.
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Reward, hedonic experience and the brain
In a recent paper in Nature Neuroscience, Morten Kringelbach summarizes the research on orbitofrontal cortex and its relation in organizing behaviour. In this paper, Kringelbach presents a new, integrated model of the functions...
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Synesthesia: When colors count
Is synaesthesia only a conscious phenomenon, or does it reflect processing even at unconscious levels also? A recent study finds that unconscious synaesthetic priming can occur.
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Reminder: ASSC William James Prize
The deadline for the ASSC William James Prize for Contributions to the Study of Consciousness is 15. December.
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New Scientist special feature about the brain
JUST LAUNCHED: THE HUMAN BRAIN – our thought-provoking special report. With one billion nerve cells, the complexity of the brain is mind-boggling. Follow the latest discoveries, plus our Expert Guide, including an interac...
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Loss of brain signal points to difference between visual imagery and perception
In a recent brain imaging study published in Neuron, Amedi and colleagues demonstrates that visual imagery deactivates areas in the auditory brain system and other “deeper” areas. This seems to suggest that normal v...