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Brain conference 2008
Combining the latest research foci and treatment modalities, the Second Annual International Brain Conference at UCF offers physicians, scientists, pharmaceuticals, medical device manufacturers, nurses, allied medical professio...
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Psychic studies may be influenced by suggestion:
From Mind hacks: The BPS Research Digest has discussed a recent study that analysed recordings of parapsychology experiments and has found that some of the positive findings may be due to experimenters unconsciously prompting t...
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Dynamic neural correlates of consciousness
PLOS Biology has a most interesting article from Stanislas Dehaene‘s group on the neurodynamics of conscious experience. The researchers studied brain activation using EEG, while subjects rated visually presented stimuli ...
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The neuropathic pain triad: neurons, immune cells and glia
Joachim Scholz and Clifford J Woolf have a nice article in Nature Neuroscience on the biological causes of neuropathic pain. This includes (as the title goes) neurons, as well as immune cells and glia cells. Abstract: Nocicepti...
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Young minds — 3 papers
The journal Cognitive Development has released its latest issue, with a few interesting titles. Among these, we here present three titles with direct impact on the study of consciousness. These cover topics as self-regulation i...
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New issue: Personality and Individual Differences
A new issue of PID is out, including articles on borderline and self-regulation, black anti-white attitudes and personality, and stress reactions and personality.
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To determine election outcomes, study says snap judgments are sufficient
A split-second glance at two candidates’ faces is often enough to determine which one will win an election, according to a Princeton University study. Princeton psychologist Alexander Todorov has demonstrated that quick f...
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The Feeling of Familiarity of Music and Odors: The Same Neural Signature?
The feeling of familiarity can be triggered by stimuli from all sensory modalities, suggesting a multimodal nature of its neural bases. In the present experiment, we investigated this hypothesis by studying the neural bases of ...
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Empathy for Pain and Touch in the Human Somatosensory Cortex
Although feeling pain and touch has long been considered inherently private, recent neuroimaging and neurophysiological studies hint at the social implications of this experience. Here we used somatosensory-evoked potentials (S...
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Dream content: Individual and generic aspects
Dream reports were collected from normal subjects in an effort to determine the degree to which dream reports can be used to identify individual dreamers. Judges were asked to group the reports by their authors. The judges scor...