Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 07/29/2009
Intelligence and EEG phase reset: A two compartmental model of phase shift and lock
ScienceDirect - NeuroImage :
A Patchwork Mind: How Your Parents' Genes Shape Your Brain
We each have two parents, but their genetic contributions to what makes us us are uneven. New research shows we are an amalgam of influences from Mom and Dad : Scientific American
Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brain
In reality, your brain operates on the edge of chaos. Though much of the time it runs in an orderly and stable way, every now and again it suddenly and unpredictably lurches into a blizzard of noise. | 29 June 2009 - New Scientist
Modern neuroscience rests on the assumption that our thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and behaviors emerge from electrical and chemical communication between brain cells: that whenever we recognize a face, read the newspaper, throw a ball, engage in a conversation, or recall a moment in childhood, a pattern of activity in our neurons makes such feats possible. It's a tenet of modern biology that sparks fascination--and disbelief. How can a tangle of cells produce the complexity and subtlety of a mind? | Harvard Magazine May-June 2009
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 07/28/2009
Secrets and Powers of the Brain | Channel N Video
Vision, the Brain and Memory: The ups and downs of forgetting (Samuel Wang)
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Monday, July 27, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 07/27/2009
Inside Michael Gazzaniga's Head Video
Neuroscience and the Law Project
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 07/22/2009
Unlocking the Mysteries of The Artistic Mind
It might seem bizarre that science is using art to learn about the mind—looking for hard facts in the most ethereal of places. But great artists turn out to be the world's first neuroscientists. (Psychology Today)
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 07/21/2009
Close Call Counts: Neuroscience of Gambling Addictions
Scientific American
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 07/12/2009
Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior - 2009 Distinguished Lecture Series with Professor Daniel Dennett (video)
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 07/08/2009
A researcher argues that peers are much more important than parents, that psychologists underestimate the power of genetics and that we have a lot to learn from Asian classrooms (Jonah Lehrer, Scientific American)
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Monday, July 06, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 07/06/2009
Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
The goal of research in evolutionary psychology is to discover and understand the design of the human mind. Evolutionary psychology is an approach to psychology, in which knowledge and principles from evolutionary biology are put to use in research on the structure of the human mind. It is not an area of study, like vision, reasoning, or social behavior. It is a way of thinking about psychology that can be applied to any topic within it.
In this view, the mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. This way of thinking about the brain, mind, and behavior is changing how scientists approach old topics, and opening up new ones. This chapter is a primer on the concepts and arguments that animate it.
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Sunday, July 05, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 07/05/2009
Friday, July 03, 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience Links 07/03/2009
Evolutionary origins of the nervous system
THE HUMAN BRAIN is a true marvel of nature. This jelly-like 1.5kg mass inside our skulls, containing hundreds of billions of cells which between them form something like a quadrillion connections, is responsible for our every action, emotion and thought. How did this remarkable and extraordinarily complex structure evolve?
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