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| Language: | English |
| Tags: | psychology, cognitive sciences, neuroscience |
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| Popularity: | 13 Followers |
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The psychological effects of brain theories
| The Frontal Cortex has an interesting piece on how giving people information suggesting that neuroscience undermines our everyday concept of free will can alter our ethical behaviour.The post discu...more |
2009-12-19
The addiction affliction
| Slate has just published an article I've written on the over-selling of addiction. It discusses how difficulties with doing some things to excess - shopping, sex, internet use - are being increasin...more |
2009-12-18
The stress of ancient Peru
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An ingenious technique, just published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, was used to look at patterns of stress in their lives of long-dead people from Peru, some who lived more than a thou...more |
2009-12-18
2009-12-18 Spike activity
| Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:The New York Times reports that antipsychotics are more likely to be prescribed to children from poorer families in the US.There's an excellent...more |
2009-12-18
Patricia Churchland on neuroscience
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The BBC World Service recently hosted a discussion with philosopher Patricia Churchland, one of the pioneers of a type of philosophy of mind that directly engages with ongoing discoveries in cognit...more |
2009-12-17
The ancient mind was planning earlier than thought
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Science News covers a fascinating new archaeological study that mapped the the remains of an 750,000 year-old settlement lived in by the ancestors of the human race and found evidence for tasks bei...more |
2009-12-17
Travelling at the speed of thought
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Discover Magazine has an excellent Carl Zimmer piece discussing efforts to understand the speed of the human nerves - a quest that has lasted for well over one hundred years.Although our experience...more |
2009-12-16
On the soul of robots
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New Scientist has an interesting article discussing research on how we attribute personality traits to robots. This is not just the human-like android from research labs, it's the robots that are a...more |
2009-12-16
Understanding witchcraft
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YouTube has a fantastic documentary about the work of the pioneering anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard who was one of the first researchers to try and understanding the psychology of people he w...more |
2009-12-15
The psychiatric bible: the state of play
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New Scientist has a good piece which outlines the current state of play in the contentious and recently delayed revision of the forthcoming psychiatric diagnostic manual, the DSM 5.If you've been f...more |
2009-12-15
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