From the BBC series that parodies science videos.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 01/30/2009
How vision sends its message to the brain
At the center of the discovery is the signaling of rhodopsin to transducin. Rhodopsin is a pigment in the eye that helps detect light. Transducin is a protein (sometimes called "GPCR") which ultimately signals the brain that light is present. The researchers were able to "freeze frame" the chemical communication between rhodopsin and transducin to study how this takes place and what goes wrong at the molecular level in certain disorders. (Science Blog)
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 01/29/2009
Neural correlates of third party punishment.
The level of activity in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex correlated with the level of responsibility that the volunteers assigned to the defendant, whereas activity in the amygdala, the medial prefrontal cortex and the posterior cingulate cortex predicted punishment magnitude, indicating that distinct neural systems underlie the two processes in legal decision making. (Deric Bownds' MindBlog)
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 01/28/2009
Saxelab Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at MIT
publications
This talk mulls over how/why human's construct these things we call a self or an "I" . Podcast at http://dericbownds.net/uploaded_images/I_Illusion_Podcast.mp3
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 01/27/2009
Trust your gut: Too much thinking leads to bad choices
Don't think too much before purchasing that new car or television. According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, people who deliberate about decisions make less accurate judgments than people who trust their instincts.
Slide show: How your brain works
Your brain contains billions of nerve cells arranged in patterns that coordinate thought, emotion, behavior, movement and sensation. A complicated highway system of nerves connects your brain to the rest of your body, so communication can occur in split seconds. Think about how fast you pull your hand back from a hot stove. While all the parts of your brain work together, each part is responsible for a specific function — controlling everything from your heart rate to your mood.
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Decision Making: A Review and Conceptual Framework
Fellows 3 (3): 159 -- Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews
TRUST, EMOTION, ETHICS, & MORALITY IN NEGOTIATION & DECISION MAKING
Harvard course syllabus
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DecisionMaking References
I pulled together some references from my Zotero collection. Some of these come from my Neuroethics course; most I found with a quick search online recently. The list just scratches the surface, but I do have copies of most if not all of these articles. Let me know if you need something or want to add something.
Decision Making References from Citeline
Decision Making References from Citeline
Monday, January 26, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 01/26/2009
Neurons that fire together, wire together, so if you are reading this post, chances are you already have a Google brain. (Eide Neurolearning Blog)
UC Berkeley Webcasts | Video and Podcasts: Cognitive Science C102, 001, Psychology C129, 001
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Sunday, January 25, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 01/25/2009
MaddoxLab - Cognitive Neuroscience of Categorization and Decision Making - UT at Austin
A major focus of our research is to examine the neurobiological underpinnings of category learning and attentional processes. We achieve this goal through a blending of empirical data collection, cognitive neuroscience, and mathematical modeling.
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Friday, January 23, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 01/22/2009
I needed to understand what was happening inside my brain as I contemplated my breakfast options. I soon realized, of course, that this new science of decision-making had implications far grander than Cheerios.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 01/20/2009
Oxytocin makes a face in memory familiar
oxytocin delivered by a commercially available nasal spray (Syntocinon Spray from Novartis) selectively enhances memory encoding of faces in humans, but not of nonsocial stimuli. (Deric Bownds' MindBlog)
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 01/18/2009
The human brain: Not perfect, but good enough
"We are born to be suckered," Marcus claims in his short, entertaining look at why the mind is a kluge. The word is used by engineers to describe a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem. The carbon dioxide filter that the Apollo 13 astronauts built in 1970 out of sweat socks, cardboard and plastic is the quintessential kluge - not perfect, but good enough. | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/18/2009
The neuroscience behind Eternal Sunshine.
You can't erase your boyfriend from your brain, but the movie gets the rest of it right. - By Steven Johnson - Slate Magazine
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 01/11/2009
The Metropolis and Mental Life — Crooked Timber
… scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are chastening. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes.
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Friday, January 09, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 01/09/2009
How do you feel — now? The anterior insula and human awareness
Bud Craig proposes that the anterior insula plays a fundamental role in human awareness (Deric Bownds' MindBlog)
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 01/06/2009
Moral Judgment Fails Without Feelings
Neuroscientists from USC, Harvard, Caltech and Iowa trace harmful moral choices to damaged emotional circuits.
As correspondent Lesley Stahl reports, neuroscience research into how we think and what we're thinking is advancing at a stunning rate, making it possible for the first time in human history to peer directly into the brain to read out the physical make-up of our thoughts, some would say to read our minds. ('60 Minutes' video)
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Monday, January 05, 2009
Voodoo Correlations
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Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience
As initially reported by Mind Hacks, a new "bombshell of a paper" (Vul et al., 2009) questioned the implausibly high correlations observed in some fMRI studies in Social Neuroscience. A new look at the analytic methods revealed that over half of the sampled papers used faulty techniques to obtain their results. (The Neurocritic)
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