Cognitive Neuroscience Links 11/29/2009

• The Psychology of Body Language | Psychology Today

  tags: psychology, language, body-language, cogsci

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Cognitive Neuroscience Links 11/26/2009

• Did McCulloch and Pitts 1943 Offer a Theory of Cognition in terms of Digital Computation?

  tags: brains, connectionism, digit-computer, cogsci

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Cognitive Neuroscience Links 11/17/2009

• Oxytocin Receptor Variants Linked To Empathy

  Researchers have discovered a genetic variation that may contribute to how empathetic a human is, and how that person reacts to stress. In the first study of its kind, a variation in the hormone/neurotransmitter oxytocin's receptor was linked to a person's ability to infer the mental state of others.

  tags: oxytocin, empathy, cogsci, neuroethics

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Cognitive Neuroscience Links 11/14/2009

• Michael Gazzaniga: Split brains and other heady tales

  Beyond the hype of left brain versus right brain lies the work of acclaimed neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga. His career was forged in the lab of Nobel laureate Roger Sperry, and together their trailblazing experiments have illuminated the differences between the brain's two hemispheres. All In The Mind - 14 November 2009 -

  tags: mind, splitbrain, Gazzaniga, 150, brains, cogsci

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