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November 26, 2011brain, brain scans, brain science, mri, qualia

MRI of Female Orgasm

Here’s a recent article from The Guardian. The brain in the clip turns from red to solid yellow during climax. brain scienceCognitive scienceKayt Sukelmriorgasmqualia

October 10, 20111, brain, brain scans, brain science, Christoph Korn, Raymond Dolan, sociocognition, Tali Sharot

The Glass is Half Full: Optimism and the Brain

Here’s an article from Nature Neuroscience that is getting a lot of attention. Here is an interview with lead author Tali Sharot who has cornered the market on “optimism” research. BiologyFrontal lobeFunctional magnetic resonance imagingNature NeuroscienceNeurobiologyOptimismUniversity College London

May 15, 2011brain, brain scans, brain science, cognitive science, consciousness, Kayt Sukel, mri, orgasm, pain

Orgasm as an altered state

Kayt Sukel performs an intimate act in an fMRI scanner to explore the pathways of pleasure and pain.

April 20, 2011brain, brain scans, brain science, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, dan lloyd, fMRI, language, music, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, psychology

Mind as Music

Dan Lloyd has alerted me to this article of his published just today in Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Aside from his academic work Dan, it should not be forgotten, is also a formidable novelist.

December 27, 2010Amygdala, Bradford Dickerson, brain, brain scans, brain science, Christopher Wright, cognition, cognitive science, complex adaptive systems, Kevin Bickart, Lisa Feldman Barrett, network theory, networks, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, psychology, Rebecca Dautoff, situated cognition, social cognition, social networking, sociocognition

Amygdala volume and social network size in humans

Not a deep surprise but still nice to see some empirical work coming through. Check out this brief report just published online in Nature Neuroscience. The upshot: participants with larger amygdalas typically had more people in their social lives and maintained more complex relationships.

December 20, 2010brain, brain scans, brain science, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, mri, neural correlates, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, reductionism, representationalism, the "hard" problem, tyler burge

Burge: A Real Science of Mind

Yet another installment on mind in the NYT – this time from the highly distinguished and very influential Tyler Burge.

September 9, 2010brain, brain damage, brain scans, brain science, child brain development, cognitive science, neuron, Neurophysics, neuroscience

Child Brain Development

Neuron is offering free access to this issue until Oct 8.

March 5, 2010active perception, Alva Noë, Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, autonomy, brain scans, brain science, Chalmers, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, collective intentionality, complexity, concept of mind, consciousness, cybernetics, cyborgs, Daniel Dennett, david chalmers, Dennett, Descartes, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Dorothée Legrand, Eliminative Materialism, Embedded, embodiment, emergence, Enacted, enactivism, Evan Thompson, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, functionalism, ghost in the machine, Gilbert Ryle, intropection, journal of mind and behavior, knowing how knowing that, mark rowlands, memory, metaphysics, mind body, Mind in Life, mirror neurons, nature-nurture, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, psychology, qualia, representationalism, Searle, sensation, situated cognition, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, sociocognition, sociology, spontaneous order, susan hurley, the "hard" problem, turing test, varela

Mind in Life

I’ve just completed reading Evan Thompson’s Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind, a work which I heartily endorse as the best statement yet of the enactivist theory of mind. I especially like his taking on the philosopher’s zombie and his chapter on Empathy and Enculturation. Last, but by no means least,…

February 14, 2010ADINA ROSKIES, brain, brain scans, brain science, EMILY MURPHY, episteme, epistemology, evidence, evidence and law, fMRI, social epistemology, TENEILLE BROWNE, WALTER SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG

Brain Images as Legal Evidence

Check out this paper freely available as a pdf download here. ABSTRACT This paper explores whether brain images may be admitted as evidence in criminal trials under Federal Rule of Evidence 403, which weighs probative value against the danger of being prejudicial, confusing, or misleading to fact finders. The paper summarizes and evaluates recent empirical research relevant to…

February 12, 2010aesthetics, brain, brain scans, brain science, category error, cognition, cognitive science, connectionism, consciousness, Descartes, fMRI, ghost in the machine, homunculus, mind body, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology, qualia, Susan Aldworth

Art and the Nature of Consciousness

Check out the terrific work of artist Susan Aldworth. Her artistry emerges from both a philosophical and an empirical sensibility. See here for a brief profile and artist’s statement.