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Risky business

A new article in the latest issue of the PNAS entitled “Predicting risky choices from brain activity patterns“ (h/t to Shannon Selin). This study reminds me of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s work: Prospect theory concerns the psychophysics of wealth utility: that is, the perceived tradeoffs between potential outcomes and the probability of some outcome occurring. Kahneman…

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The Neurosciences and Music

Just received my hard copy of this issue: This volume stems from the conference “The Neurosciences and Music IV: Learning and Memory,” held in Edinburgh, Scotland from 9–12, June 2011. The volumes focuses on four themes: infants and children, adults: musicians and non-musicians, disabilities and aging-related issues, and therapy and rehabilitation. Featured papers cover a…

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Neural Correlates of Lyrical Improvisation: An fMRI Study of Freestyle Rap

Here’s a study that would seem to be a companion to the earlier Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation, Allen R. Braun the shared investigator. Allen R. BraunCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessCreativityDorsolateral prefrontal cortexFreestyle rapFunctional magnetic resonance imagingimprovisationJazzJazz ImprovisationmusicNeural correlateNeural network

behavioral economics, bounded rationality, cognition, cognitive systems, complexity, computational psychology, david levine, neuroeconomics, neuromania, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, rationality, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social epistemology, social ontology, social psychology

Is Behavioral Economics Doomed?

Here is a skeptical take on the insights supposedly offered by the rise of behavioral economics as represented by Daniel Kahneman and others. Since I’m in the process of reviewing Kahneman it will be interesting to see if Levine’s take on behavioral economics jibes with my take on Kahneman in particular and behavioral economics in…

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

The Consciousness Chronicles

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

alvin goldman, Chiara Chelini, mirror neurons, neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, simulation, social cognition, sociocognition, spontaneous order

Hayek’s Self-organizing Mental Order and Folk-Psychological Theories of the Mind

Here is the Introduction to Chiara Chelini’s paper, the full version available here. Humans are social creatures and they deeply rely on mentalizing, which aims at understanding other people behaviours and formulating expectations about their future actions. The existence of inner mental states has been postulated in order to give an explanatory account of the…

brain, cerebral cortex, connectionism, consciousness, El Orden Sensorial, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, qualia, the sensory order

Fuster’s “Prólogo” to Hayek’s El Orden Sensorial

Here is a translation I commissioned by José Villavicencio of Joaquin Fuster’s “Prólogo” to F. Hayek El Orden Sensorial. Unión Editorial, S.A., Madrid, pp 11-23, 2004. +++++++++++++++++++ Prologue Salzburg, May 17, 1976 Dear Professor Fuster, Thank you very much for your kind letter dated the 3rd of this month and that I have in my possession without…