Scicon Review
Scicon Review
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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 ...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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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