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February 19, 2015oliver sacks

Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer

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March 26, 2013oliver sacks

Autoscopic Doubles

This from NRP coinciding with the publication of Oliver Sacks’ latest book Hallucinations. My interest is in autoscopic phenomena in literature – that is, where does the boundary between the protagonist and the creator lie? Stay tuned. autoscopicCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionOliver Sacksphenomenologyphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindPsychology

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

April 14, 2011bill nye, brain, brain science, carl sagan, jill bolte taylor, neural correlates, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, oliver sacks, philosophy of mind, robert winston, symphony of science, V.S. Ramachandran

Ode to the Brain! by Symphony of Science

Here is the Symphony of Science‘s latest music video – “Ode to the Brain”. “Ode to the Brain” is the ninth episode in the Symphony of Science music video series. Through the powerful words of scientists Carl Sagan, Robert Winston, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Jill Bolte Taylor, Bill Nye, and Oliver Sacks, it covers different aspects the…