Scicon Review
Scicon Review
Scicon Review
Can blindsight lead to superior sight?
In a most interesting paper by Ceri Trevethan, Arash Sahraie and Larry Weiskrantz, it is suggested that blindsight patients are actually superior on certain visual stimulus detection tasks. In this paper, published in Cognition...
An artificial sixth sense
Wired has a story about new sensory prosthetics giving people a sense of magnetic north, “tactile vision”, etc. Subjects report that they even dream in their new senses.
Ned Block paper, BBS call for commentators
Ned Block is known for his suggestions that there are two aspects of consciousness and their neural underpinnings that need to be disentangled. In BBS, there is now an unedited and uncorrected final draft of a manuscript that, ...
Startle reflex following subliminal images of fear and sex
What happens if you are presented with subliminal stimuli that are normally associated with fear or sexual arousal? In a study published in Biological Psychiatry two Spanish researchers now document that both negative positive ...
Event perceptions
So how do we really experience the world around us, and events as they occur? As discrete units of experiences or as one flow of experience. In a recent paper in Psychologial Bulletin authors Jeffrey Sacks and colleagues sugges...
Emotion
A new issue of Emotion is out, containing articles on topics including: emotion inference emotional competence in childhood chimp facial expressions
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