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Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power, and Personhood
Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power, and Personhood BY NIKOLAS ROSE Cambridge University Press (December 28, 1998) 236 pages Book summary by Alice Kim In Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power, and Personhood, Rose questi...
H.M.’s Brain and the History of Memory
For an audio recording provided by the National Public Radio on patient H.M. and his contribution to memory research, click here.
H. M., an Unforgettable Amnesiac, Dies at 82
From The New York Time (4 Dec. 2008): He knew his name. That much he could remember. He knew that his father’s family came from Thibodaux, La., and his mother was from Ireland, and he knew about the 1929 stock market cras...
Seeking Insights Into the Human Mind in Art and Science
Proust Was a Neuroscientist BY JONAH LEHRER HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, 2007 230 PAGES Reviewed by Steven Rose, Ph.D. About Steven Rose, Ph.D. From The Dana Foundation: Proust was a neuroscientist? No, despite Jonah Lehrer’s provoc...
Real-time chemical responses in the nucleus accumbens differentiate rewarding and aversive stimuli
Mitchell F Roitman, Robert A Wheeler, R Mark Wightman and Regina M Carelli Article in Nature Neuroscience Abstract Rewarding and aversive stimuli evoke very different patterns of behavior and are rapidly discriminated. Here ta...
Gamma oscillations mediate stimulus competition and attentional selection in a cortical network model
Christoph Börgers, Steven Epstein, and Nancy J. Kopell Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA Abstract Simultaneous presentation of multiple stimuli can reduce the firing rates of neurons in extrastria...
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