Happy (Gregorian) New Year everyone! Let's kick off with a traditional round-up - 2009 was a great year for new research into belief and non-belief, and here's some of the highlights!First up, brain scans. Neuroimaging studies are starting to get under the skin of religious beliefs, and several this year showed the religious beliefs seem to tap into the neural pathways used for everyday life. Fo
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May 31, 2009
Synaesthesia in Frankenstein
One of the new ideas in synaesthesia research is that affected people perhaps don't develop mixed senses as their brains develop, they just fail to lose them. It seems most children might start with naturally mixed senses before perception becomes segregated through pruning of the fuzzy neural pathways.I've just noted an interesting article in Cognitive Neuropsychology on how this idea actually h
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