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ASSC 10 — CALL FOR SYMPOSIA & TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
The tenth annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness will be held from June 23rd to June 26th, 2006 in Oxford. The meeting will be notable not only for being the tenth anniversary ASSC meeting, ...
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The Best Studies in the Science of Consciousness
The aim of this research is to identify the most influential scientific studies of consciousness. It takes 15-20 minutes to complete and has two parts. The first part asks what you think are the most important scientific studie...
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The brain and its self
The main message of this monograph is that the appearance of the mammalian brain with the ability to acquire drives ensured the development of social life, and eventually led to the evolution of the human society. This most sop...
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Decoding the visual and subjective contents of the human brain
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, Kamitani and Tong demonstrate that the activity in early visual areas correlate closely with the perceived orientation of a stimulus. This work provides a demonstration of how higher...
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Brain Control of Wakefulness and Sleeping
Brain Control of Wakefulness and Sleeping explores the history of efforts to understand the nature of waking and sleeping states from a biological point of view. This research represents the synthesis of the work of two individ...
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Right-to-die case highlights brain mysteries
Researchers are still far from full understanding of vegetative states. The bitter wrangle over the fate of an American brain-damaged woman has thrown up both legal and ethical conundrums. But it has also highlighted neurologis...