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UK cognitive scientists studying reading have discovered the mechanics behind how our eyes read a written page.
The team’s results demonstrated that both eyes lock on to the same letter 53% of the time; for 39% of the time they see different letters with uncrossed eyes; and for 8% of the time the eyes are crossing [...]
Mind Hacks has some videos of MRI machines gone bad. Behold the power of human ingenuity.
ABC Radio National is at it again, this time with a two-part series involving blindness and the brain. It discusses how blind people visualize their surroundings and features interviews someone blinded by an industrial accident, people who are congenitally blind but still possess something of a visiospacial sketchpad, and those who were blind from birth [...]
I’ve been reading Quantum Enigma, recent book by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner, published through Oxford. Both of the authors are physics professors, so they might seem like unlikely cognitive science writers, but their explorations of the bridge between physics and consciousness are interesting. The tone of the book is factual, giving brief [...]
The New English Review has a poignant article by Theordore Darlrymple entitled “Do The Impossible: Know Thyself.” With the deluge of editorials, opinion pieces and essays describing how neuroscience is the last vast expanse separating humanity from truly knowing itself. This comes on the heals of Jeffery Rosen’s article in the New York Times Magazine [...]
In my car today I listened to a fantastic NPR piece on H.M., the patient who’s medial temporal lobe was removed in the 1950s to cure his epilepsy. The procedure was a success in that he only has epileptic seizures about once a year now, but this came with what some would argue is the [...]
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.
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