Scicon Review
Scicon Review
Scicon Review
The brain and its self
The main message of this monograph is that the appearance of the mammalian brain with the ability to acquire drives ensured the development of social life, and eventually led to the evolution of the human society. This most sop...
Brain Control of Wakefulness and Sleeping
Brain Control of Wakefulness and Sleeping explores the history of efforts to understand the nature of waking and sleeping states from a biological point of view. This research represents the synthesis of the work of two individ...
Right-to-die case highlights brain mysteries
Researchers are still far from full understanding of vegetative states. The bitter wrangle over the fate of an American brain-damaged woman has thrown up both legal and ethical conundrums. But it has also highlighted neurologis...
Autobiographical memory and the self in time
In Brain & Cognition, Brian Levine argues that the emergence of autobiographical recollection at around age four coincides with the timing of prefrontal regressive cortical and progressive white matter changes.
The Role of Dreams in the Evolution of the Human Mind
In a new article in Human Nature Review, Franklin et al. argue that “Rather than a simple threat rehearsal mechanism, it is argued that dreams reflect a more general virtual rehearsal mechanism that is likely to play an i...
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