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Twine about brain studies. Neuroscience is a field that is devoted to the scientific study of the nervous system. Such studies span the structure, function, evolutionary history, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, informatics, computational neuroscience and pathology of the nervous system.
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Ghost in the Shell: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix | h+ MagazineWhen surveying the goals of transhumanists, I found it striking how heavily many of them favor conventional engineering. This seems inefficient and inelegant, since such engineering reproduces slowly, clumsily and imperfectly, what biological systems have fine-tuned for eons, from nanobots ...
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Your Brain on Books. How the mind makes sense of written language | Scientific AmericanIn his new book, “Reading in the Brain,” neuroscientist S. Dehaene describes his quest to understand an astounding feat that most of us take for granted: translating marks on a page (or a screen) into language. (...) We humans would be liberated from our past instincts and free to invent ...
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Revisiting FOXP2 and the origins of language : Not Exactly Rocket ScienceToday, a new paper published in Nature adds another chapter to the story of FOXP2, a gene with important roles in speech and language. The FOXP2 story is a fascinating tale that I covered in New Scientist last year. It's one of the pieces I'm proudest of so I'm reprinting it here with kind ...
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The Mind Is a Mirror: Scientific AmericanThe discovery of mirror neurons in the brains of macaques about ten years ago sent shockwaves through the neuroscience community. Mirror neurons are cells that fire both when a monkey performs a certain task and when it observes another individual performing that same task. With the ...
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Philosophy of mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPhilosophy of mind is a branch of modern analytic philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, consciousness and their relationship to the physical body, particularly the brain. The mind-body problem, i.e. the relationship of the mind to the ...
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Neuroscience articles indexParticularly read: Robosemantics- (all articles are PDF)wildcat added 4 months ago
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A neural basis for the effect of candidate appearance on election outcomes -- Spezio et al. 3 (4): 344 -- Social Cognitive and Affective NeuroscienceElection outcomes correlate with judgments based on a candidate's visual appearance, suggesting that the attributions viewers make based on appearance, so-called thin-slice judgments, influence voting. Yet, it is not known whether the effect of appearance on voting is more strongly influenced by ...Darren Schreiber added 7 months ago
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New Schizophrenia Gene DiscoveredNever mind the headline - the point is finding many bits that contribute to the chemical side of schizophrenia.Günther Mulder added 9 months ago
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PLoS Biology - Brain Growth Receptors Control LifespanAnd if we find Methusaleh was short, there's your proof... The octocentenarian.Murray Peat added 11 months ago
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