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July 27, 2012art, brain, brain science, Natalie Geld, neurobiology, neuron

Neuroscience Art

Greg Dunn is one of a growing group of artists taking inspiration from neurons. H/T to Natalie Geld for the pointer. ArtGreg DunnneuroscienceVisual Arts

May 10, 2012consciousness, Daniel Dennett, mri, neural correlates, neural networks, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience

Check out Nick Day’s documentary recorded at the annual Toward a Science of Consciousness conference. Artificial intelligenceBuddhismCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionExtended MindneuroscienceNick Dayphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindPhilosophy of scienceQuantum mechanicsRoger PenroseRupert Sheldrake

March 18, 2012music, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, qualia, synesthesia, V.S. Ramachandran

It was the sound that tasted different

Here’s an article from The Economist. More informative however is the work of V.S. Ramachandran and co. arguably the leading researcher in the field. See “The Phenomenology of Synaesthesia” and the recent “Survival of the Synesthesia Gene: Why Do People Hear Colors and Taste Words?“ ColorSensation and PerceptionSynesthesiaThe EconomistV.S. RamachandranVilayanur Ramachandran

February 29, 2012brain, brain scans, brain science, cognitive science, mri, mri and music, music, neural correlates, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, oliver sacks, philosophy of mind

The Effects of Music on the Brain

Oliver Sacks is the test subject in looking at the effect of music on the brain. BrainElectroencephalographyMagnetic resonance imagingOliver Sacks

February 28, 2012Anil Seth, barry smith, behaviorism, brain science, chris frith, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, consciousness, david chalmers, mri, naturalism, neural correlates, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, physicalism, qualia, the "easy" problems, the "hard" problem, zombies

Can science ever explain consciousness?

Anil Seth, Chris Frith and Barry Smith (of Birkbeck, not Buffalo!) outline the topography in a podcast. Anil SethBarry SmithChris FrithCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionMagnetic resonance imagingneurosciencePhilosophy of mindqualia

February 21, 2012freewill, moral philosophy, mri, neural correlates, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, political philosophy

Free will

Two articles on that old philosophical chestnut – free will: one from Intelligent Life (neurons v. free will) and one from the sister title, the Economist (Free will and politics). Cognitive scienceFree willIntelligent LifeneurosciencePhilosophy of mind

February 14, 2012brain, brain scans, brain science, cognitive science, complexity, computational intelligence, connectionism, joaquin fuster, network theory, networks, neural correlates, neural networks, neural signals, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, Susan Bookheimer

Connectome

Here’s a recent WSJ article summing up the state of play in mapping brain connectivity. Here is Susan Bookheimer who holds the Joaquin Fuster Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience chair at UCLA – Fuster is off course a name many readers will recognise from my postings here and here. The images are from the Human Connectome…

January 30, 2012conservatism, David Eagleman, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, Jesse Prinz, liberalism, moral philosophy, moral psychology, neural correlates, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, plasticity, political philosophy, roger scruton, Susan Greenfield

Nature, nurture and liberal values

Roger Scruton weighs in on the nature/nurture debate via a threefold review. (Image another Steve Pyke portrait). Roger Scrutonsteve pyke

January 28, 2012happiness, neural correlates, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, shimon edelman

The neuroscience of happiness

Here’s an interview with Shimon Edelman whose The Happiness of Pursuit: What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About the Good Life has just been published. CognitionCognitive scienceEmbodied cognition

January 27, 2012brain, brain science, cognitive science, consciousness, Eliminative Materialism, folk psychology, moral philosophy, moral psychology, neural correlates, neural networks, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, patricia churchland, paul churchland, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science

Patricia Churchland

Having missed Pat Churchland’s talk at NEI this past October, it was great that she was in town for a full week of speaking engagements not to mention interviews and other demands being made on her time (and she is supposedly retired!). It was a pleasure to meet her (finally!) having followed her work over the…

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