Scicon Review
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The Decider
Informing the debate over the reality of ‘free will’ requires learning something about the lateral habenula. From ScienceNews: At the end of The Matrix trilogy, Neo and Agent Smith are engaged in one final, interminab...
“Giving Up Maleness”: Abraham Maslow, Masculinity, and the Boundaries of Psychology
In a paper in History of Psychology, Nicholson (2001) examines Abraham Maslow’s attempt to reconstruct the boundaries of psychology. This paper focuses on Maslow’s struggle to find a way to “soften” scie...
BOOK: Frontiers of consciousness — The Chichele lectures
In recent years consciousness has become a significant area of study in the cognitive sciences. The ‘Frontiers of Consciousness‘ is a major interdisciplinary exploration of consciousness. The book stems from the Chi...
Self-awareness deficits following loss of inner speech: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s case study
Alain Morin Article in Consciousness and Cognition Abstract In her 2006 book ‘‘My Stroke of Insight” Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor relates her experience of suffering from a left hemispheric stroke caused by a congenital arte...
Connectomics: Tracing the Wires of the Brain
From The Dana Foundation: Scientists working with rapidly advancing computer technology and electron microscopes hope one day to map the billions of neuronal connections in the brain. The resulting map, or “connectome,&#...
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