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2009-08-16 09:26:26     Op-Ed Contributor - Your Baby Is Smarter Than You Think - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/opinion/16gopnik.html

In 2007 in my lab at Berkeley, Tamar Kushnir and I disco... preschoolers can use probabilities to learn how things w... lets them imagine new possibilities. We put a yellow blo...
Then we gave the children the blocks and asked them to l ...
We also did

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2006-07-01 15:19:03     Paul Ekman. Ph.D : About Paul Ekman

http://www.paulekman.com/paulekman_biography.php

For 32 years, Paul Ekman was a Professor of Psychology i... Psychiatry at the University of California at San Franci... his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago... University. He received his Ph.D. from Adelphi Universit...
His interes

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2014-05-08 23:43:11     Phineas Gage neuroscience case: True story of famous frontal lobe patient is better than textbook accounts.

http://www.slate.com/..._of_famous_frontal_lobe_patient.html

On Sept. 13, 1848, at around 4:30 p.m., the time of day ... start wandering, a railroad foreman named Phineas Gage f... with gunpowder and turned his head to check on his men. ... normal moment of his life.
Other victims in the annals of medicine are a

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2015-08-18 22:12:57     PLOS ONE: Conscious Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans Using Non-Invasive Technologies

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?...

These technologies, BCI and CBI, can be combined to real... non-invasive, computer-mediated brain-to-brain (B2B) com... subjects (hyperinteraction).

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2010-10-08 16:34:55     Popular Science Feature - Chessboard Optical Illusion

http://www.popularscience.co.uk/features/feat16.htm

Shadows are the topic of a book recently reviewed on the... website (The Shadow Club by Roberto Casati) - it's nothi... book, but here's a stunning optical illusion featuring s...
This optical illusion is reproduced with the permission ...
This is sim

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2006-05-30 22:56:37     Psychological hedonism? The pleasure seekers

http://www.biopsychiatry.com/pleasure/index.html

Ian Sample talks to the scientists teasing out why we st... pleasurable experiences - and why, when we have it all, ... for more excitement

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2006-05-02 20:59:48     Sapir–Whorf hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir–Whorf_hypothesis

In linguistics, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (SWH) state... systematic relationship between the grammatical categori... a person speaks and how that person both understands the... in it. Although it has come to be known as the Sapir–W... it rather w

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2006-05-10 11:37:35     Serendip

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/

Welcome
... Serendip is
a gathering place for people w ...
instructions are always ambigu ...
... and in how one makes sense of life.

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2010-11-04 08:29:37     The Bionic Eye That Helps The Blind See Again | Gadgets And Gizmos

http://www.gadgetsandgizmos.org/...elps-the-blind-see-again/

A bionic eye implant has been shown to give blind men an...
The technology is quite incredible. A three millimetre s ...
However, as impressive as the technology is, the impact ...
The results have been tagged as astonishing by eye surge ...
... suffere

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2009-12-27 09:54:00     The Decade of the Mind

http://dom2009.de/html/about.html

On May 21st and 22nd 2007, the Krasnow Institute for Adv... George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, hosted a Symposi...
Ten eminent neuroscientists signed the letter in Science ...
The "Decade of the Brain" [2], has quite naturally led t ...
The "Decade

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2010-06-18 09:30:28     The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...he-internet-and-our-brains/

June 11, 2010, 1:24 pm
The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains
By NICK BILTON
brain scan while on the computerCharles Baldwin for The ...
... and conversation, is the quintessential place to learn.

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2007-08-21 09:20:49     THE FIRST IDEA: HOW SYMBOLS, LANGUAGE AND INTELLIGENCE EVOLVED FROM OUR PRIMATE ANCESTORS TO MODERN HUMANS * Stanley I. Greenspan and Stuart G. Shanker * 2004. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press * Price UK {pound}14.99, US $25.00 * ISBN 0-7382-0680-6 -- Renf

http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full.../1737?...

Book review
THE FIRST IDEA: HOW SYMBOLS, LANGUAGE AND INTELLIGENCE E ...

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2007-01-04 21:17:41     The Invisible Eye » About the Invisible Eye

http://www.robinfaichney.org/?page_id=2

I’m fascinated by consciousness, I’ve studied it for... and I have some things to say about it.
My name is Robin Faichney and I’m a philosopher. (I’ ...

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2013-01-30 13:00:51     The Quest to Create A Bionic Eye Gets Clearer - WSJ.com

http://online.wsj.com/...24539304578264052022342798.html?...

Researchers have been pursuing the development of such a... decades, in some cases spending hundreds of millions of ... engineering challenges. One device designed to help peop... condition is awaiting U.S. regulatory approval. It is kn...
Second Sigh

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2006-02-05 19:56:19     The Secret Life of the Brain

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/index.html

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2008-08-05 17:19:13     Thought control: it's the computer world's latest game plan - Times Online

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/to.../article4354041.ece

Thought control: it's the computer world's latest game plan
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Chris Ayres in Los Angeles
Click here for a slideshow of the history of computers
... eo game,” he told The Times in an exclusive interview.

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2015-04-07 19:02:45     Tons of data turn into neuron 'Wikipedia' - Futurity

http://www.futurity.org/...n-neuron-data-website-889112/?...

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2013-01-31 09:30:25     U.S. researchers map emotional intelligence of the brain

http://www.gizmag.com/emotional-intelligence-brain.../25980/

We tend to think of reason and emotion as being two diff... it turns out that there may not be a choice between the ...
Relationships between general and emotional intelligence
CT scan showing overlaps of different general and em ...
Differe

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2009-11-07 09:39:37     Vast Right Arm Conspiracy? Study Suggests Handedness May Affect Body Perception

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200.../091104152304.htm

ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2009) — There are areas in the b... arms, legs, and various parts of our bodies. The way the... distributed throughout the brain are known as "body maps... some significant differences in these maps between left-... people. For

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2013-03-14 07:07:59     Wanna Play? Computer Gamers Help Push Frontier Of Brain Research : NPR

http://www.npr.org/...s-help-push-frontier-of-brain-research

Enlarge image
Daniel Berger, a researcher at MIT, traced these neurons ...
EyeWire
People can get pretty addicted to computer games. By som ...
Right now I'm at the novice level of a game called EyeWi ...

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2011-02-14 14:13:30     www.2-sight.com

http://www.2-sight.com/

The device consists of a tiny camera and transmitter mou... an implanted receiver, and an electrode-studded array th... the retina with a microtack the width of a human hair. A...
The camera on the glasses captures an image and sends th ...
Second Sigh

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2007-01-04 21:17:15     zombies

http://www.imprint.co.uk/cottrell.html#[6]

[6] The notion is that the population of China, equipped... radios plus a system of satellites for broadcasting info... once, could play the role of an artificial brain with th... input-output capacity as an ordinary human one. See Bloc...

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