Scicon Review
Scicon Review
Scicon Review
Imagination gets its due as a real-world thinking tool
Kids make some unusual friends. Take Simpy, an 8-year-old girl with blue skin and black eyes who likes funny clothes. Then, there’s Skateboard Guy. He wears cool shirts and performs amazing tricks on his fancy board, even...
Animal Bodies, Human Minds: Ape, Dolphin, and Parrot Language Skills
Several books chronicle attempts, most of them during the last 40 years, to teach animals to communicate with people in a human-designed language. These books have typically treated only one or two species, or even one or a few...
Face blindness runs in families
The genetic basis of a distressing neurological condition that prevents people from recognising faces has been pinned down. The finding may help people cope with the impairment, which the researchers believe may affect 1 in 50 ...
A Neural Theory of Visual Attention: Bridging Cognition and Neurophysiology.
Building on Claus Bundesens work on attention, this article presents an updated framework for his theory of visual attention.
The Evolution and Function of Cognition
“The book presents the author’s ambitious attempt to formulate a general theory of how all animals (from the most primitive to the most complex, hence humans included) deal with their environment.”
Cognition & Emotion Vol X; Issue Y
A recent publication discusses the different stages of the so-called post-traumatic amnesic period, including brain death,coma, vegetative state and minimaly conscious state.
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