I’ve been too busy writing manuscripts and teaching to blog much lately, but since The Evil Monkey over at Neurotopia insists everyone should post about mirror neurons, I feel compelled to oblige. Mirror neurons seem to be getting the short end of the stick, so I’ll play devil’s advocate and try to convince you they’re […]
Archive for July, 2006
Mirror neurons aren’t really all that bad…
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25 July 2006 |
21:48 |
musings |
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The cognitive neuroscience of religion vs. religion in cognitive neuroscience
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16 July 2006 |
23:54 |
general, neuroimaging, musings |
2 Comments »
On a lark, I googled the phrase “cognitive neuroscience of religion”. I’m not really sure what I expected to find; maybe a few press articles on Michael Persinger’s “God machine” (a fancy name for TMS applied over the temporal lobes). As it turns out, Google returns only 3 hits for the phrase, which surprised me, […]
On a lark, I googled the phrase “cognitive neuroscience of religion”. I’m not really sure what I expected to find; maybe a few press articles on Michael Persinger’s “God machine” (a fancy name for TMS applied over the temporal lobes). As it turns out, Google returns only 3 hits for the phrase, which surprised me, […]
more on fMRI
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9 July 2006 |
18:51 |
fmri, musings |
2 Comments »
Developing Intelligence has a nice post today summarizing last week’s flurry of posts on the utility of functional neuroimaging. I should point out that while these posts offer a nice introduction to some of the issues involved, they by no means offer a comprehensive assessment of the pros and cons of fMRI. For one thing, […]
Developing Intelligence has a nice post today summarizing last week’s flurry of posts on the utility of functional neuroimaging. I should point out that while these posts offer a nice introduction to some of the issues involved, they by no means offer a comprehensive assessment of the pros and cons of fMRI. For one thing, […]
Sokal, in reverse
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9 July 2006 |
0:06 |
musings, news articles |
4 Comments »
Update 08/01: Harry Collins left a comment below (be sure to read it!) noting some inaccuracies in this post, on the basis of which I’ve made some changes.
Remember the Sokal affair? Back in 1996, physicist Alan Sokal submitted a paper full of clever-sounding gibberish to Social Text, a leading postmodern journal. Shortly after the paper […]
Update 08/01: Harry Collins left a comment below (be sure to read it!) noting some inaccuracies in this post, on the basis of which I’ve made some changes.
Remember the Sokal affair? Back in 1996, physicist Alan Sokal submitted a paper full of clever-sounding gibberish to Social Text, a leading postmodern journal. Shortly after the paper […]
V1 isn’t just for seeing
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6 July 2006 |
22:41 |
fmri, neuroimaging, research articles |
2 Comments »
The latest issue of Neuron has a fantastic article on visual attention from Maurizio Corbetta’s group at Washington University in St. Louis. In it, Jack and colleagues report finding a novel signal in V1 independent of other, relatively well-characterized signals.
V1 is the primary visual cortex–essentially, the first cortical stop for incoming visual information. The traditional […]
The latest issue of Neuron has a fantastic article on visual attention from Maurizio Corbetta’s group at Washington University in St. Louis. In it, Jack and colleagues report finding a novel signal in V1 independent of other, relatively well-characterized signals.
V1 is the primary visual cortex–essentially, the first cortical stop for incoming visual information. The traditional […]
What are authoritarians like?
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4 July 2006 |
22:11 |
personality, politics, behavioral psychology |
1 Comment »
Mixing Memory has an excellent post today reviewing some recent empirical work on patriotism. The post discusses a paper by Schatz, Staub, and Lavine, in which the authors distinguish between ‘blind’ and ‘constructive’ patriotism, with the argument being (as you can imagine from the names) that one is constructive and the other is… less constructive. […]
Mixing Memory has an excellent post today reviewing some recent empirical work on patriotism. The post discusses a paper by Schatz, Staub, and Lavine, in which the authors distinguish between ‘blind’ and ‘constructive’ patriotism, with the argument being (as you can imagine from the names) that one is constructive and the other is… less constructive. […]
The science of empathy & sociology of affective neuroscience
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2 July 2006 |
23:34 |
behavioral neuroscience, research articles |
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A fascinating article in Science this week provides evidence that purports to show mice are capable of experiencing empathy. Langford, Mogil and colleagues found that mice administered a painful injection displayed increased writhing behavior (a reflexive response to pain) in the presence of cagemates who had also been injected than in the presence of either […]
A fascinating article in Science this week provides evidence that purports to show mice are capable of experiencing empathy. Langford, Mogil and colleagues found that mice administered a painful injection displayed increased writhing behavior (a reflexive response to pain) in the presence of cagemates who had also been injected than in the presence of either […]