Graham Lawton interviews Daniel Kahneman and Olivier Sibony about Noise in New Scientist 19 June 2021
Humans really are alarmingly inconsistent in their judgements. It is hard to see why we would...
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Category: NEUROSCIENCE
Metazoa by Peter Godfrey-Smith 2020
Organisms with a nervous system have consciousness. Hmmm. Peter Godfrey-Smith, he of octopus fame,...
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Dream power by Erik Hoel in New Scientist 7 November 2020
An interesting theory on the meaning of dreams. We know broadly what happens in the brain when we...
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Can lab-grown brains become conscious by Sara Reardon in Nature 27 October 2020
Neuroscience’s definition of consciousness is in a complete muddle. Research labs are now...
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How we learn by Stanislas Dehaene 2020
A must for machine learners and educationalists alike. In an age when the digital world is...
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A distributional code for value in dopamine-based reinforcement learning by Will Dabney et al in Nature 30 January 2020
AI teaches neuroscience about reward signalling. Computer scientists have successfully developed...
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Fly atlas in The Economist 25 January 2020
The human connectome is within reach. Well, in the next few decades at any rate. Researchers have...
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Brain work by Neil Savage in Nature 17 October 2019
Brain research is taking off. There is now a respectable number of substantial national and...
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Who needs emotions edited by J-M Fellous and MA Arbib 2005
An unemotional analysis of robot emotions. The book consists of a series of papers by various...
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Why everyone else is a hypocrite by Robert Kurzban 2010
Important insights into the brain delivered in lighthearted way. Kurzban delivers an...
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Specialized coding of sensory, motor and cognitive variables in VTA dopamine neurons by Ben Engelhard et al in Nature 27 June 2019
Dopamine has numerous ways in which to express itself. Decision-making in the brain is a complex...
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Hidden consciousness by Helen Thomson in NewScientist 29 June 2019
Is the thalamus at the heart of consciousness? There is a growing understanding of those who can...
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Why love matters by Sue Gerhardt 2015
Eminently sensible and rather heartwarming. Gerhardt is an experienced psychotherapist who brings...
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Inside the mind’s eye by Daniel Cossins in NewScientist 8 June 2019
People with amazingly clear mental images. Cossins writes about those people with the unusual...
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Dissociable dopamine dynamics for learning and motivation by Ali Mohebi et al in Nature 6 June 2019
Dopamine system has two distinct functions: learning and motivation. Dopamine is produced...
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The future of the brain, essays by the world’s leading neuroscientists, edited by Gary Marcus and Jeremy Freeman 2015
A useful high-level exploration of neuroscience today. This is an interesting read for someone...
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One of these is a power drill by Chris Baraniuk in NewScientist 270419
AI uses one method to do object recognition; humans use two. Everyone is familiar with the AI...
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Mirroring people by Marco Iacoboni 2008/9
Embedding mirror neurons firmly in our social interactions. Iacoboni has provided a thoroughgoing...
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Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness by B J Baars and N M Gage 2010
An immense and valuable introduction to neuroscience. At around 600 large pages with plenty of...
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Winnicott by Adam Phillips 1988/2007
Self development occurs post-natally; we are not born with it. A sympathetic and revealing account...
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