Scicon Review
Scicon Review
Scicon Review
ASSC eprint archive
Scientists active in the field may already know about the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness‘ eprint archive, but we haven’t mentioned it on SCR before and it was high-time we did. Check out the a...
Altruistic punishment
Why do we punish others? And why do we punish when it is personally costly? In a recent review in Nature Review Neuroscience Ben Seymour and colleagues discuss the neurobiology of punishment.
They love to make you mad
Some people find angry looks from others so rewarding they go out of their way to encourage them, Michigan researchers said. “It’s kind of striking that an angry facial expression is consciously valued as a very neg...
Emotion
A new issue of Emotion is out, including articles on: emotion inference appraisals emotional competence in children multimodal expression of emotion
On the (sound) track of anesthetics
Danish scientists challenge the accepted scientific views of how nerves function and of how anesthetics work. Their research suggests that action of nerves is based on sound pulses and that anesthetics inhibit their transmissio...
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