On Thursday, January 5, I suited up and made my way to this session at the annual Modern Languages Association convention in downtown Seattle: Useful Fictions? A Cognitive Perspective on the Utility of Emotions, Imagination, and Long Novels Thursday, 5 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 606, WSCC A special session Presiding: Lisa Zunshine, Univ. of Kentucky …
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Caught the Tail End of NOVA Musical Minds
Last night, I caught the ending of Oliver Sacks’ Musical Minds on NOVA. According to the website here, it originally aired in 2009. Luckily, you and I can watch the complete episode online and we can learn how the brain processes music and how important music is to the human brain. There are also special …
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Cognitive Scientist David Rumelhart Dies At 68 – Slashdot
While I was waiting in line at the post office this morning, I saw this post on slashdot.org: Cognitive Scientist David Rumelhart Dies At 68 – Slashdot. Rumelhart was on the forefront of modeling brain behavior with computers and developing the core concepts of neural net algorithms. There are obituaries of Rumelhart and remembrances of his …
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Research Finds That Electric Fields Help Neurons Fire – Slashdot
Slashdot.org linked to a February 2011 Nature Neuroscience article that suggests that electric fields in the brain influences neuron firing. There is some earlier evidence that focused and powerful electrical fields can produce effects in an individual’s brain. However, Anastassiou et. al. in “Ephaptic Coupling of Cortical Neurons” demonstrate that field effects produced by neurons in …
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Journal Article on the Early History of Psychosurgery
Dominik Gross’ article “Egas Moniz (1874-1955) and the ‘Invention’ of Modern Psychosurgery: a Historical and Ethical Reanalysis Under Special Consideration of Portuguese Original Sources” is available for free online here. It is a well researched and informative article that covers the early history of surgical interventions on human behavior and mental illness. I briefly talked …
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