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Role of mirror neurons may need a rethink - life - 26 May 2009 - New ScientistDoubt is being cast on the true role of brain neurons that are said to explain empathy , autism and even morality. Mirror neurons fire both when we perform an action and when we see someone else doing it. The theory is that by simulating action even when watching an act, the neurons allow ...
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Superstitions evolved to help us survive - being-human - 10 September 2008 - New ScientistDarwin never warned against crossing black cats, walking under ladders or stepping on cracks in the pavement, but his theory of natural selection explains why people believe in such nonsense.The tendency to falsely link cause to effect – a superstition – is occasionally beneficial, says Kevin ...
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EDGE 3rd Culture: Marc Hauser: Animal MindsHarvard evolutionary psychologist, Marc D. Hauser, argues that to understand what animals think and what they feel, we must ask about the kinds of selection pressures which shaped their minds and see the creature for what it is, no more, no less. Using the tools of evolutionary biology, ...
Calvin Smith
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Technology Review: TR10: Connectomics. Jeff Lichtman hopes to elucidate brain development and disease with new technologies that illuminate the tangled web of neural circuits.Displayed on Jeff Lichtman's computer screen in his office at Harvard University is what appears to be an elegant drawing of a tree. Thin multicolored lines snake upward in parallel, then branch out in twos and threes, their tips capped by tiny leaves. Lichtman is a neuroscientist, and the image ...
Kristinn R. Thórisson
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Introduction to ConnectomicsGraduate seminar class at MIT and Harvard, Fall 2007. Connectomics is an emerging field defined by the high-throughput generation of data about neural connectivity, and the subsequent mining of that data for knowledge about the brain. A connectome is a summary of the structure of a neural ...
Kristinn R. Thórisson
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Neuromarketing » Connectomics: Mapping The BrainUsing automated technology to derive neural maps from brain tissue, Harvard researchers are in the early stages of an effort to map the human brain. Eventually, the researchers hope to map every synapse in the human brain and produce a “connectome.” “You’re going to see things you didn’t ...
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