Scicon Review
Scicon Review
Scicon Review
The Mystery of Consciousness
There is an interesting article in TIME, by Steven Pinker, about the study of consciousness. From the article: As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This ...
Video: A patient who was stuck in a minimally conscious state for 20 years
TIME and CNN present an interesting video on Sarah Scantlin, a patient who suffers from severe brain damage. After being stuck in what was thought to be a vegetative state for 20 years, Sarah has recently regained her ability t...
Philosophy of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology
Following the success of PPNB 2005 in Oxford, the CONTACT project is hosting PPNB 2007 in Bristol and PPNB 2008 in Edinburgh. We aim to bring together young researchers interested in mind-world relations, to address philosophic...
The Multi-Source Interference Task
Abstract of The Multi-Source Interference Task: an fMRI task that reliably activates the cingulo-frontal-parietal cognitive/attention network, in Nature. In this protocol we describe how to perform the Multi-Source Interference...
Self-projection and the brain
Abstract of Self-projection and the brain, in Trends in Cognitive Science: When thinking about the future or the upcoming actions of another person, we mentally project ourselves into that alternative situation. Accumulating da...
Jane Goodall Podcast
ABC Radio National in Australia has an excellent podcast on a talk by Jane Goodall , an English primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist, who is well known for conducting a forty-five year study of chimpanzee social and fam...
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