Source: Jon Simons I have previously written about how I think that cognitive neuroscience as a scientific discipline (and I know that this is not a universally held view) has largely moved on from…Via neuronclub.wordpress.com
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Japanese researchers are using a wireless headband that detects smiles and frowns to coach robots how to do tasks (Using Smiles (and Frowns) to Teach Robots How to Behave: Last year, Gruebler proposed the device to control avat…)…Via spectrum.ieee.org
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Via Scoop.it – Philosophy and Science of Mind and BrainClement Atlee) was being challenged one day, not too long ago, when an earnest audience member asked me—ME, of all people!—what was the most difficult unsolved problem in science.I answered without hesitation: How the brain generates awareness, thought, perceptions, emotions, and so forth, what philosophers call …
I asked myself this question the other day, after showing a passage of The Watchman’s Rattle by Rebecca D.Costa to MJ, who is also a woman.
The book is a synthesis of ideas from many different fields. The author weaves ideas from the frontier of cognitive neuroscience, geology (climate change) , historical analysis of ancient civilizations, …
ScienceDaily (2011-03-18) — Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) such as Prozac are regularly used to treat severe anxiety and depression. However it can take weeks of treatment before a patient feels any effect and both beneficial effects and side effects can persist after treatment is stopped. New research investigates physiological changes within the brain that …