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2008-01-13 09:20:11     Ericsson & Kintsch 1995: long-term working memory

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~jimmyd/summaries/ericsson1995.html

Ericsson, K. A., & Kintsch, W. (1995). Long-term working... Psychological Review, 102, 211-245.
Author of the summary: David Zach Hambrick, 1998, gt8781 ...
The sine qua non of skilled cognitive performance is the ...
Working memory (WM) refers to the si

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2007-11-13 06:49:57     BBC - Radio 4 - Extra Senses

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/extrasenses.shtml

Aristotle defined our five senses over two and a half th... But in fact we have many more. In this five part series,... delves into the Extra Senses that we take for granted. H... they work and meets some remarkable people who experienc... a unique wa

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2007-08-21 09:27:42     Conceptualizing Concepts using the Lattice Formalism

http://cogprints.org/2139/00/flairs.html

Contextualizing Concepts
Liane Gabora and Diederik Aerts
... develop a formal description of the contextual manner in which concepts are evoked, used, and combined to generate meaning.

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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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2007-01-06 11:51:21     Mark Turner

http://markturner.org/


I work on higher-order cognitive operations that disting ...

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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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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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2007-01-04 20:57:11     Brain Hammer » Blog Archive » Hyperbolic Mary

http://www.petemandik.com/blog/2006/11/17/hyperbolic-mary/

Paul Churchland, in his recent “Chimerical Colors: Som... from Cognitive Neuroscience” (2005), describes very od... experiences that are predicted by a neural model of chro... processing. In brief, the differential fatiguing and rec... processing

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2006-10-17 09:06:46     Foresight

http://www.foresight.gov.uk/previous_project.../Book.htm?...

Cognitive Systems: Information Processing Meets Brain Sc...
Authors: Richard G M Morris, Lionel Tarassenko and Micha ...
Publisher: Academic Press Inc (London) Ltd
ISBN: 0120885662

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2006-10-17 09:04:43     Foresight

http://www.foresight.gov.uk/Previous_Projects/.../index.html

Research Reviews
Making connections
Life scientists and physical scientists face many of the ...
This was an important clue in deciding the shape of the ...
The project commissioned a series of Research Reviews so ...

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2006-08-18 08:21:19     Epiphenomenalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenalism

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2006-07-08 12:40:44     New Scientist Breaking News - 'Rewired brain' revives patient after 19 years

http://www.newscientist.com/...s-patient-after-19-years.html

The team's findings suggest that Wallis’s brain had, v... developed new pathways and completely novel anatomical s... re-establish functional connections, compensating for th...
They found that new axons – the branches that connect ...
Surprisingl

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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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2006-07-01 14:49:46     Detecting deception

http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug04/detecting.html

Psychological sleuths
Detecting deception
Some research links lying with such facial and bodily cu ...
BY RACHEL ADELSON

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2006-06-29 17:28:55     BBC Radio 4 - Midweek

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/midweek.shtml

JIM HORNE
Jim Horne is Professor of Psychophysiology and Director ...

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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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2006-05-10 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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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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2006-02-05 19:56:19     The Secret Life of the Brain

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

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2005-11-17 16:24:42     Number of Neurons in a Human Brain

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2002/AniciaNdabahaliye2.shtml

Number of Neurons in a Human Brain
The Physics Factbook%u2122
Edited by Glenn Elert -- Written by his students
An educational, Fair Use website
... brain has more than 100 billion neurons" > 100 billion

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2005-11-17 16:24:02     Information Processing in Human Body

http://vadim.www.media.mit.edu/MAS862/Project.html

The total information processing activity of the brain i... because the current knowledge in this area is fragmentar... possible to get a general picture of the electronic puls... activity within a couple of orders of magnitude. The act... is equivale

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2005-11-17 16:21:41     Neurogenetics at UT Health Science Center

http://www.nervenet.org/papers/NUMBER_REV_1988.html

Estimates for the human brain range between 10 billion a... imprecision in these estimates is due almost entirely to... the number of granule cells in the cerebellum, a problem... traced back to a study by Braitenberg & Atwood (1958). M...
[A revisio

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