I want to make a chemical brain by Roman Hooper in NewScientist 15 September 2018
Consciousness in silico will not work. So says the chemist, Lee Cronin. He believes that the...
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Category: NEUROSCIENCE
The consciousness instinct by Michael Gazzaniga 2018
Consciousness is what separates life from non-life. Gazzaniga commences with a wonderful summary...
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The consciousness wager by Per Snaprud in NewScientist 23 June 2018
Consciousness author tracks down original NCCs bet. Snaprud, who is writing a book on...
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The secret of you by Caroline Williams in NewScientist 7 July 2018
The cerebellum might be the cortex’s workhorse. It turns out that the cerebellum is connected to...
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Mind time: the temporal factor in consciousness by Benjamin Libet 2004
One of the most important pieces of research into consciousness. Libet’s experiments famously...
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The mind is flat by Nick Chater 2018
We really do live in the present. Chater proposes that every perception and every thought we have...
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The runaway species by A Brandt & D Eagleman 2017
Our brains are designed to master both predictability and creativity. The authors draw attention...
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Machine theory of mind by NC Rabinowitz et al at DeepMind 21 February 2018
How a machine might infer others’ behaviour by observation. There are some interesting...
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Bigger brain cells work better by Jessica Hamzelou in NewScientist 5 May 2018
Bigger is better after all. In short, people with bigger, faster neurons have higher IQs, think...
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Rationality & the reflective mind by Keith E Stanovich 2011
The dual-process mind moves to a more granular tri-process model. Dual-process theory became...
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The mind doesn’t work that way by Jerry Fodor 2000
A cautionary note on the validity of computational theory of mind. His book is 18 years old now...
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Consciousness: confessions of a romantic reductionist by Christof Koch 2012
Another subscriber to integrated information theory. After years spent trying to hunt down the...
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The Science of Consciousness conference, Tucson, 2-7 April 2018
Comprehensive range of topics. One of the long-standing conferences on consciousness. As such, it...
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Wave therapy by Helen Thomson in Nature 1 March 2018
What neuronal oscillations, or brainwaves, do and do not do. Wave therapy is a handy update on the...
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The Marshmallow Test by Walter Mischel 2014
The true story of one of the most famous psychology tests ever. Some 50 years after launching what...
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A New, Better BET: Rescuing Basic Emotion Theory by D D Hutto et al 2018
Basic and non-basic emotions: more research needed. This is a thought-provoking paper on the state...
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Cerebral Cortex by Edmund T Rolls 2016
Masterly account of the cortex. Rolls has produced the definitive account of the workings of the...
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What is “the unconscious”, and where is it located in the brain? A neuropsychoanalytic perspective by Mark Solms in Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 10 July 2017
Turning the ego and the id upside down. Solms rests his theory on the observation that...
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Portrait of a memory by Helen Shen in Nature 11 January 2018
Better technology enables ever more precise analysis of workings of memory. One of the main...
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The unbearable automaticity of being by JA Bargh and TL Chartrand in American Psychologist July 1999
The many different facets of the unconscious mind. In a wide-ranging analysis, the authors...
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