Edited by Anil Seth, and Geraint Rees. How do conscious experience, subjectivity, and free will arise from the brain and the body? Even in the late 20th century, consciousness was considered to be beyond the reach of science. Now, understanding the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness is recognized as a key objective for 21st…ISBN: 9781848727397Published Sep 01, 2010 by Psych
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September 4, 2010
Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness
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June 24, 2010
Coming out of left field
The Health Editor of The Independent has written a baffling article where he seems to confuse transcranial magnetic stimulation, a technique used in cognitive neuroscience to induce current in the brain through the use of large electromagnets, and dodgy 'magnet therapy' which involves wearing magnetic pendants that are advertised as curing various ailments.Transcranial magnetic stimulation or TMS
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November 15, 2009
I Feel Your Pain, I REALLY Do: Synaesthesia for Another's Pain
"I feel your pain"Empathy for another person's pain is a hot topic of study in the glamorous field of social cognitive neuroscience. The capacity for empathy supposedly involves mirror neurons, those media darlings of The Young, [The Not-So-Young], and The Neuro:A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. Thus,
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October 20, 2009
Inhabiting a robot hand
BBC News has a fascinating short video report of a robotic hand that is connected to the nerve fibres of an amputated arm and which allows the patient to actually feel touches with the robot fingers.Although it doesn't mention it in the report, the technology is from the SmartHand research group who are attempting to use knowledge about the cognitive neuroscience of action and body sensation to m
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September 2, 2009
Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience
Edited by Philip David Zelazo, Michael Chandler, Eveline Crone This volume in the JPS Series is intended to help crystallize the emergence of a new field, "Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience," aimed at elucidating the neural correlates of the development of socio-emotional experience and behavior. No one any longer doubts that infants are born with a biologically based head start
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