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New issue: Dreaming
A new issue of Dreaming is out, including articles on emotion, culture, and the self. Here we bring the abstracts
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Phenomenology & the Cognitive Sciences
A new issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences is out with headlines such as Mathematizing phenomenology The phenomenology of agency and intention in the face of paralysis and insentience Finding common ground between ...
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Validating neural correlates of familiarity
Familiarity is a pervasive memory phenomenon that occurs in its most basic form when someone recognizes a repeated stimulus without recollecting other aspects of the requisite prior learning episode. Theoretical controversy cur...
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The human mirror system: A motor resonance theory of mind-reading
Electrophysiological data confirm the existence of neurons that respond to both motor and sensory events in the macaque brain. These mirror neurons respond to execution and observation of goal-orientated actions. It has been su...
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25 hottest articles per journal
ScienceDirect is running a neat service. They provide regular updates on what articles are being most read (i.e., downloaded) from each journal. In this way, you can always have the finger on the pulse of your peers — and...
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Learning to pay attention
By Rachel Jones Our sensory system is constantly bombarded with inputs, but owing to the brain’s finite processing power, we are forced to pay attention to only a tiny proportion of these inputs at any given time. In a new st...
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Neural Mechanisms of Visual Attention: How Top-Down Feedback Highlights Relevant Locations
Attention helps us process potentially important objects by selectively increasing the activity of sensory neurons that represent the relevant locations and features of our environment. This selection process requires top-down ...
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TSC 2007 — registration
The “Toward a Science of Consciousness 2007” international conference will be arranged in Budapest, Hungary, July 23-26, 2007. Plenary talks by: Walter Freeman, Stuart Hameroff, Ivan Havel, Ilona Kovács, David Papi...
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Visual hallucinations in brain recovery
As if it was not bad enough to suffer from a brain injury following such as stroke, many sufferers of injury to visual areas also report experiences of hallucinations. Interestingly, these reports should not necessarily be unde...