Scicon Review
Scicon Review
Scicon Review
Cognition & Emotion – latest issue
A new issue of Cognition & Emotion is out. Articles include the following topics: emotional awareness response inhibition conditioning Click through for the TOC and links.
The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness
Edited by Max Velmans, Susan L. Schneider The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness is the most thorough and comprehensive survey of contemporary scientific research and philosophical thought on consciousness currently available...
Patients with hippocampal amnesia cannot imagine new experiences
Adding to the recent surge of studies on future thinking, Hassabis and colleagues recently reported the results they obtained from testing amnesic patients with bilateral hippocampal damage. Compared to healthy control particip...
The Medial Temporal Lobe Distinguishes Old from New Independently of Consciousness
There is an interesting paper, The Medial Temporal Lobe Distinguishes Old from New Independently of Consciousness in The Journal of Neuroscience. The novel part is that the MTL novelty distinction can operate at an unconscious ...
Pain in the brain
Pain is one of the most prominent examples of the problem of consciousness: from a subjective point of view we know the experience of pain all too well. Seen from the objective side of pain, the neural processes related to pain...
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Treating Sciencephobia – Or, how to read real science without getting a nervous breakdown.
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Women not to blame for obesity – but estrogens might be.
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The Kim Kardashian hypothesis of beauty.
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Is ROBO2 really a language gene? Hmmm…
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Cat bug changes behavior – NY Times Science Section
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Be nice to your Precuneus – it might be your real self…
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Acupuncture triggers neurotransmitters in the body
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Flatworm ejaculation is triggered by dopamine… a lesson in ultraconservation.
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Turn the lights off when you sleep: Melatonin and cancer treatment.
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You couldn’t be cuter — the power of the baby schema.
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From The Web – 7 kittens and a flying toy
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The sexiest mammal on earth?
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Microbes may trigger Alzheimer’s Disease.
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Has the Turing test really been cracked?
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Where does visual input become conscious? (Baars, hat tip to Prof. Alumit Ishai)
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Flow in the Zone 2013
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Winter SADness? Stick a light in your ear!
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Love a Gradient
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AD-ENM server: computing with elastic network models
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Fun with oscillations
