Archive for February, 2007
Chances are if you’re reading this blog, you’ve read work by John Searle. Well, the Boston Globe has an interview with him that took place February 4th, discussing changes in the paradigms of neurophilosophy, free will, self-conception, and general philosophy of mind.
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Developing Intelligence has an excellent dopamine primer that also discusses computational modeling of the neurotransmitter. Discusses phasic versus tonic dopamine, models of working memory, among other things. An excellent read.
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The New York Times has a rather long article about the psychology of happiness, differences between pleasure and selfless acts of kindness and their impact on quality of life, among other things. Written for the lay person, it is still quite interesting and engaging. Via MindHacks. Also, Harvard Magazine has an another article on positive [...]
The CogSci Librarian has an excellent post about the mysteries of consciousness about the Easy and Hard problems, Daniel Dennett’s discussion of the Hard problem, and an interesting link to a story about imagining playing a piano and actually doing it. Check it.
Technorati Tags: cogsci, consciousness, danieldennett, brain, science, time
The New York Times has an excellent article by Sandra Blakeslee about the insular cortex, commonly referred to as the insula. The insula recently received a lot of media attention after it was implicated in smoking cessation.
The frontal insula is where people sense love and hate, gratitude and resentment, self-confidence and embarrassment, trust and distrust, [...]
Here’s a list of cognitive science-related blogs I stole from an Encephalon callout.
Neurophilosophy
The Thinking Meat Project
The Neurocritic
Omni Brain
Mind Hacks
Subscribe with your favorite RSS reader (I prefer Google Reader) and digest some of the latest goings on in the field(s) of cognitive science. More to come in the future. If you have a cogsci-related blog you’d [...]
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