Scicon Review
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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...
48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
The Psychonomic Society promotes the communication of scientific research in psychology and allied sciences. The 48th Annual Meeting of the Society will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Long Beach, California from Novemb...
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...
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...
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 ...
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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