Scicon Review
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Consciousness and Mind
Consciousness and Mind presents David Rosenthal’s influential work on the nature of consciousness. Central to that work is Rosenthal’s higher-order-thought theory of consciousness, according to which a sensation, th...
Causal models. How People Think about the World and Its Alternatives
Human beings are active agents who can think. To understand how thought serves action requires understanding how people conceive of the relation between cause and effect, that is, between action and outcome. In cognitive terms,...
Call for papers – New Ideas in Psychology
New Ideas in Psychology is calling papers for a special issue entitled ‘Dynamics and Psychology’. The purpose of this special issue is to bring together some of the leading views on dynamicism as it relates to psych...
Making false memories
For many years researchers in cognitive neurscience has known that episodic memory does not work like a tape recorder or a computer hard drive. Recollection of events is not a simple replay from a fixed store. Rather, episodic ...
Imitating minds
Social interaction is one of the most complex undertakings of the primate brain. It is the result of collaboration between different levels of the brain. Imitation is an important social function that – among other things...
Self and Identity — New issue
A new issue of the journal Self and Identity is out, including papers on defense mechanisms and self-perception.
Latest Articles
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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
