Scicon Review
Scicon Review
Scicon Review
How the brain becomes aware of errors
For a long time psychologists have devised methods to make people erroneous on a task. A well-known example is the Stroop effect, a demonstration of interference in the reaction time of a task. When a word such as blue, green, ...
Multiple Dimensions Shape Our Perception Of Mind
Multiple Dimensions Shape Our Perception Of Mind, Harvard Study Suggests Through an online survey of more than 2,000 people, psychologists at Harvard University have found that we perceive the minds of others along two distinct...
Prosthetic arm with a feel
Surgeons have managed to give an amputee not only a prosthetic arm that moves as directed by her thoughts, but also the feeling of touch — albeit in the wrong part of her body. When Claudia Mitchell presses an area on her che...
On becoming aware of what you eat
A recent review article explores how we become aware of the (integrated) flavor of food. Abstract: In recent years, progress has been made understanding the neural correlates of consciousness. Experimental and computational dat...
What do we hear with our eyes?
Would we hear things differently if we always kept our eyes closed? The answer is yes! The McGurk Effect is a classic illustration of how the spoken sounds we hear are influenced by whether or not we can see the speaker’s lip...
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