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November 28, 2009brain damage, brain science, cognition, cognitive science, connectionism, consciousness, evolutionary biology, mirror neurons, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, phantom limbs, philosophy of mind, plasticity, psychology, qualia, science, synesthesia, V.S. Ramachandran

Charlie Rose in conversation with V.S. Ramachandran

V.S. is always good value for money – his enthusiasm is palpable. Click photo to view video.

November 19, 2009brain science, cognition, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, computational intelligence, connectionism, consciousness, evolutionary psychology, ginger campbell, mirror neurons, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology, science

Brain Science Podcast

I want to give a plug to the excellent resource that is the Brain Science Podcast website so passionately managed by Ginger Campbell. There is even an iPhone app now available though I haven’t used it yet.

May 14, 2009autism, brain damage, brain science, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, homunculus, mind reading, mirror neurons, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, phantom limbs, philosophy of mind, Ramachandran, richard gregory, situated cognition, social cognition, synesthesia

V. S. Ramachandran

Speaking of homuncularity there is a nice profile of V. S. Ramachandran in the latest issue of The New Yorker (sorry it’s by subscription only). It’s a far superior piece than the one done on the Churchlands a while back. Beyond the areas that have made V.S. so well-known (synesthesia, phantom limb syndrome), several interesting…

January 27, 2009active perception, Andy Clark, cognition, cognitive science, embodiment, mind reading, mirror neurons, simulation, situated cognition, social cognition, sociocognition, susan hurley

Hurley: The shared circuits model

In case you haven’t come across this, a posthumous article by Susan Hurley entitled “The shared circuits model (SCM): How control, mirroring, and simulation can enable imitation, deliberation, and mindreading” along with responses, has been posted on Susan’s Memorial Conference website.