Big Answers from Little People
In infants, Elizabeth Spelke finds fundamental insights into how men and women think
In infants, Elizabeth Spelke finds fundamental insights into how men and women think
A growing number of experts insist that the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder is itself disordered and that soldiers are suffering as a result
Reviews and recommendations from the December 2008/January 2009 issue of Scientific American MIND
Reviews and recommendations from the June/July 2008 issue of Scientific American MIND
by Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Barrow Neurological institute
Phoenix, Arizona
Some camera work, some stroking, and next thing you know you're out of your own body...
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With the election season hard upon us and the spin machines working overtime, we thought it sensible to rerun a post from last year about a sort of spin machine recently discovered in the brain...
Mind Matters - The First Year
We did not, alas, make it to the Prague Museum, which is pictured above. But with the end of both the calendar year and Mind Matters' first year it seems a good time to look a back and see where we have been since launching in January...
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Greg Hickok Center for Cognitive Neuroscience University of California, Irvine
Mirror neurons are the rock stars of cognitive neuroscience...
by Robert Stickgold
Harvard Medical School
Most of us can remember at least one occasion on which we sat in class, half asleep, trying to pay attention and learn what we were being taught "“ to no avail...
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How Stereotypes Shape Performance
S. Alexander Haslam, Jessica Salvatore, and Thomas Kessler
University of Exeter, UK
Every sports fan has vivid memories of key occasions on which a favorite team or player has 'choked' under pressure...
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How Infants Predict Other People's Behavior
Valerie Kuhlmeier and Tania Tzelnic
Queen's University, Kingston, ON
When it comes to watching the actions of others, we all have a little Nostradamus in us...
Toward a Neurofunctional Definition of "Face-Blindness"
Alison M. Harris & Geoffrey K. Aguirre
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA In 1947 Dr.
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where top researchers in neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry explain and discuss the findings and theories driving their fields.
_____________________ Dog Tails as Tell-Tales: The Evolution of Brain-Hemisphere Specialization Peter F. MacNeilageUniversity of Texas at AustinA dog earns its reputation as best friend in part because it wags its tail in joy at the sight of its owner...
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Welcome to Mind Matterswhere top researchers in neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry explain and discuss the findings and theories driving their fields.
Awarded the Nobel Prize for work 40 years ago that revealed memory's most basic mechanisms, this psychiatrist-turned-neuroscientist is still working his discipline's cutting edge
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