Cognitive Neuroscience Links 02/09/2010

• What Happens in the Amygdala... Damage to Brain's Decision-Making Area May Encourage Dicey Gambles: Scientific American

  The amygdala damage did not appear to affect risk-aversion—a similar behavior with an important difference. People who are risk-averse are less likely to take chances even when they have nothing to lose.

  tags: amygdala, decision-making, cogsci

• Center for Culture, Mind and the Brain

  We invite you to apply to attend the first Summer Institute in Cultural Neuroscience at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. SICN is an annual two-week program that provides graduate students as well as faculty with an overview of core topics and recent research developments related to cultural neuroscience in order to prepare them to start their own empirical investigations.

  tags: institute, neuroscience, cogsci

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Cognitive Neuroscience Links 02/08/2010

• Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds | Video on TED.com

  Sensing the motives and feelings of others is a natural talent for humans. But how do we do it? Here, Rebecca Saxe shares fascinating lab work that uncovers how the brain thinks about other peoples' thoughts -- and judges their actions.

  tags: saxe, theory-of-mind, AZB, neuroethics, cogsci

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Cognitive Neuroscience Links 02/03/2010

• Easy = True - The Boston Globe

  One of the hottest topics in psychology today is something called “cognitive fluency.” Cognitive fluency is simply a measure of how easy it is to think about something, and it turns out that people prefer things that are easy to think about to those that are hard. On the face of it, it’s a rather intuitive idea. But psychologists are only beginning to uncover the surprising extent to which fluency guides our thinking, and in situations where we have no idea it is at work.

  tags: cognitive-fluency, psychology, politics, cogsci

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Cognitive Neuroscience Links 02/02/2010

• Abstract Thoughts Prompt Literal Physical Responses - NYTimes.com

  tags: embodied-cognition, embodiment, cognitive-science, cogsci

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