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Survey: Neuroscience in Economics and Marketing?
NEUROMARKETING SURVEY We would like to invite you to take part to this survey. Your answers will help to gather information about the perceptions and thoughts about the use of brain science methods in non-medical settings. CONF...
Neuroscience Meets Psychoanalysis
From the Dana Foundation: Dr. Pierre Magistretti and Dr. Francois Ansermet spoke with Dana Foundation Chairman William Safire about their book, Biology of Freedom: Neural Plasticity, Experience, and the Unconscious, and the bri...
Learning, Arts, and the Brain: the Dana Consortium Report on Arts and Cognition
From the Dana Foundation: The Dana Foundation released at a news conference on March 4, Learning, Arts, and the Brain, a three-year study at seven universities, which finds strong links between arts education and cognitive deve...
Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic
Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic BY FREDERICK GRINNELL OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 248 PAGES Reviewed by Alice Kim From grade school onwards, I was taught that science follows a l...
Understanding Consciousness, 2nd Edition
Authored by Max Velmans Understanding Consciousness, 2nd Edition provides a unique survey and evaluation of consciousness studies, along with an original analysis of consciousness that combines scientific findings, philosophy ...
Intuitions About Consciousness: Experimental Studies
Joshua Knobe and Jesse Prinz Article in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Abstract When people are trying to determine whether an entity is capable of having certain kinds of mental states, they can think of it either...
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Treating Sciencephobia – Or, how to read real science without getting a nervous breakdown.
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Women not to blame for obesity – but estrogens might be.
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The Kim Kardashian hypothesis of beauty.
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Is ROBO2 really a language gene? Hmmm…
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Cat bug changes behavior – NY Times Science Section
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Be nice to your Precuneus – it might be your real self…
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Acupuncture triggers neurotransmitters in the body
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Flatworm ejaculation is triggered by dopamine… a lesson in ultraconservation.
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Turn the lights off when you sleep: Melatonin and cancer treatment.
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You couldn’t be cuter — the power of the baby schema.
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From The Web – 7 kittens and a flying toy
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The sexiest mammal on earth?
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Microbes may trigger Alzheimer’s Disease.
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Has the Turing test really been cracked?
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Where does visual input become conscious? (Baars, hat tip to Prof. Alumit Ishai)
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Flow in the Zone 2013
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Winter SADness? Stick a light in your ear!
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Love a Gradient
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AD-ENM server: computing with elastic network models
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Fun with oscillations
