What does it feel like to have too many arms? (Scientific American)
Reconstructive memory: Confabulating the past, simulating the future
The term 'Rashomon effect' is often used by psychologists in situations where observers give different accounts of the same event,and describes the effect of subjective perceptions on recollection. The phenomenon is named after a 1950 film by the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.
Can Twitter Make You Amoral? Rapid-fire Media May Confuse Your Moral Compass
Emotions linked to our moral sense awaken slowly in the mind, according to a new study from a neuroscience group led by corresponding author Antonio Damasio, director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California.
How should we deal with cognitive-enhancing drugs?
What if we could look inside, or even pry open, the mind of a suspected criminal or terrorist? (Neuroworld)
The Neuroscience of Pathological Lying
n 2005, the British Journal of Psychiatry published a study which found an increased amount of white matter, and a decreased amount of gray matter, in the brains of subjects they categorized as “pathological liars.” (Neuroworld)
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