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Neurophilosophy
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| Url: | http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/ |
| Author(s): | Mo Costandi |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | neuroscience, science, psychology |
| Description: | Neurophilosophy is a weblog about molecules, minds and everything in between, written by a postgraduate student of neuroscience. |
| Ratings |  (20 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 156 Followers |
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The cognitive benefits of time-space synaesthesia
| SYNAESTHESIA is a neurological condition in which there is a merging of the senses, so that activity in one sensory modality elicits sensations in another. Although first described by Francis Galto...more |
2009-11-19
Dyslexia and the Cocktail Party effect
| IMAGINE sitting in a noisy restaurant, across the table from a friend, and having a conversation with them as you eat your meal. To communicate effectively in this situation, you have to extract th...more |
2009-11-13
The illusion of time: Perceiving the effect before the cause
| A novel temporal illusion, in which the cause of an event is perceived to occur after the event itself, provides some insight into the brain mechanisms underlying conscious perception. The illusion...more |
2009-11-06
Phantom limbs can contort into impossible configurations
| FOLLOWING the surgical removal of a body part, amputees often report sensations which seem to originate from the missing limb. This is thought to occur because the brain's model of the body (someti...more |
2009-10-28
A pictorial history of neurotechniques
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THE latest issue of MIT Technology Review contains a photo essay by yours truly, called Time Travel Through the Brain, in which I look at how techniques used to investigate the brain have evolved d...more |
2009-10-21
Lasers used to write false memories onto the fruit fly brain
| THE humble fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) has the ability to learn and remember, and to make predictions about the outcome of its behaviours on the basis of past experience. Compared to a huma...more |
2009-10-20
Mice navigate a virtual reality environment
| USING an inventive new method in which mice run through a virtual reality environment based on the video game Quake, researchers from Princeton University have made the first direct measure...more |
2009-10-18
Surgery on conscious patients reveals sequence and timing of language processing
| THINKING of and saying a word is something that most of us do effortlessly many times a day. This involves a number of steps - we must select the appropriate word, decide on the proper tense, and a...more |
2009-10-16
Kicking performance affects perception of goal size
| ATHLETES who are on a winning streak often claim that they perceive their targets to be bigger than they actually are. After a run of birdies, for examples, golfers sometimes say that the cup appea...more |
2009-10-12
Alzheimer's fish go head to head
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THIS image by Dominik Paquet of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich is one of the winners of the 2009 Nikon Small World Photomicrography competition. It's a confocal fluoresence microscop...more |
2009-10-09
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