Scicon Review
Scicon Review
Scicon Review
The units of thought
What is the nature of thought? And what is the resting state? Moshe Bar and colleagues argues in a new paper (PDF) in the journal Hippocampus that besides the long-held idea that associative processing provides the vehicle of t...
Resting states in unconscious monkeys
Nature has an interesting report from Marc Raichle‘s laboratory that studies the resting states in monkeys. This study not only demonstrates that resting states occur in non-human primates, but that it is possible to find...
Smarter, sentient whales
Recent studies have shown that the brains of sperm whales is second in size only to human (relative to body size). It is about 60% larger in absolute mass than that of an elephant. How this brain evolution has occurred is the t...
Who’s superstitious?
What makes some people supersticious, or believe in the paranormal? In the latest issue of the Journal of Research in Personality, researchers Marjaana Lindeman and Kia Aarnio from Helsinki, Finland, first set out by conceptual...
ASSC 2007
The 11th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness will take place between June 22nd and June 25th, 2007, at the Imperial Palace Hotel, Las Vegas. ASSC11 will promote interdisciplinary dialogue...
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