Neuroscience
This year's ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS (ASSC) annual meeting in
DO NOT MISS the first scientific event to bring in WORLD FAMOUS magicians: Teller, from Penn & Teller, The Amazing Randi, The Great Tomsoni, Mac King, and Apollo Robbins, Professional Thief and Pickpocket, to share their deep insights into the covert manipulation of attention and
awareness! This event promises to astound you, to delight you, and to make you take magic seriously as an important experimental tool in the study of consciousness.
- Detecting Consciousness In A Totally Locked-in Patient
Alert to your surroundings but helpless to respond. It's difficult to imagine a worse situation, but this is the terrifying reality for a minority of brain damaged patients with total locked-in syndrome. Fortunately, researchers are developing ways...
- Elsewhere
For when you've had enough of journal articles: A look at the social forces causing obesity. Would you opt for a brain chip that could boost your mental powers, even if there was a chance it could backfire and leave you impaired? Is anorexia the female...
- Magic Research
Yesterday's Science Times described research published recently in Nature Reviews Neuroscience in which "a team of brain scientists and prominent magicians described how magic tricks, both simple and spectacular, take advantage of glitches in how...
- Christof Koch Now
["... Now" is a short post of cog sci topics in the news] Ginger Campbell over at the Brain Science Podcast recently interviewed Christof Koch. It’s a fascinating discussion -- almost a lecture by Koch -- on the nature of consciousness. Koch kept things...
- Future Of The Brain?!
MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory will celebrate its formal opening on Dec. 1 with a “major scientific symposium” entitled the Future of the Brain. It’s a day-long event focusing on the future of neuroscience research, and includes...
Neuroscience
THE MAGIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS SYMPOSIUM
This year's ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS (ASSC) annual meeting in
LAS VEGAS: THE CONSCIOUSNESS CAPITAL OF THE WORLD
promises to draw your attention and command your awareness!
DO NOT MISS the first scientific event to bring in WORLD FAMOUS magicians: Teller, from Penn & Teller, The Amazing Randi, The Great Tomsoni, Mac King, and Apollo Robbins, Professional Thief and Pickpocket, to share their deep insights into the covert manipulation of attention andawareness! This event promises to astound you, to delight you, and to make you take magic seriously as an important experimental tool in the study of consciousness.
- Detecting Consciousness In A Totally Locked-in Patient
Alert to your surroundings but helpless to respond. It's difficult to imagine a worse situation, but this is the terrifying reality for a minority of brain damaged patients with total locked-in syndrome. Fortunately, researchers are developing ways...
- Elsewhere
For when you've had enough of journal articles: A look at the social forces causing obesity. Would you opt for a brain chip that could boost your mental powers, even if there was a chance it could backfire and leave you impaired? Is anorexia the female...
- Magic Research
Yesterday's Science Times described research published recently in Nature Reviews Neuroscience in which "a team of brain scientists and prominent magicians described how magic tricks, both simple and spectacular, take advantage of glitches in how...
- Christof Koch Now
["... Now" is a short post of cog sci topics in the news] Ginger Campbell over at the Brain Science Podcast recently interviewed Christof Koch. It’s a fascinating discussion -- almost a lecture by Koch -- on the nature of consciousness. Koch kept things...
- Future Of The Brain?!
MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory will celebrate its formal opening on Dec. 1 with a “major scientific symposium” entitled the Future of the Brain. It’s a day-long event focusing on the future of neuroscience research, and includes...