Neuroscience
Dr. Michael Gazzaniga
Today's
New York Times included an interview with Dr. Michael Gazzaniga, an eminent neuroscientist who is currently the director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth.
The article -
A Career Spent Learning How the Mind Emerges From the Brain - was written by Carl Zimmer, the author of last year's biography of Thomas Willis. Zimmer maintains an excellent blog, too:
The Loom.
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Glia
An article written by Carl Zimmer for the September issue of Discover magazine: read the article The Dark Matter of the Human Brain Meet the forgotten 90 percent of your brain: glial cells, which outnumber your neurons ten to one. And no one really knows...
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Swarm Intelligence: Ants And The Collective Mind
Carl Zimmer has a piece in tomorrow's New York Times about swarm intelligence. Read Carl's blog The Loom at this link. From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm Carl Zimmer 13 November 2007 The New York Times If you have ever observed ants marching...
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Self-awareness
The November 2005 issue of Scientific American includes an article by Carl Zimmer, The Neurobiology of the Self. Update 26 October 2005 - Carl Zimmer has placed a link to a .pdf version of this article on his blog. - Anthony H. Risser | neuroscience...
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Dr. Michael Gazzaniga On C-span's Booktv
A mid-June interview of Dr. Michael Gazzaniga by novelist Tom Wolfe is airing this weekend on C-SPAN's BookTV. Topics include neuroethics and Gazzaniga's newest book, The Ethical Brain. The interview was held at the New York Academy of Sciences....
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Michael Gazzaniga Now
I've just seen / heard about a couple of interviews with Michael Gazzaniga, the father of cognitive neuroscience: He was on the Australian radio show All in the Mind in June, and they introduce him as follows: One of the big names of the brain is...
Neuroscience