Youtube as neuroscience resource hub
I just love the way that YouTube is developing these days. If you just spend some time searching this wonderful site, you can get access to so many different teaching resources for psychology,...
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Where’s the voodoo?
I just love this title: Independence in ROI analysis: where is the voodoo? by Russel Poldrack and Jeanette Mumford. Lately, there has been much fuzz about so-called voodoo correlations in social...
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Neuromarketing attitudes survey
Dear all, We are currently running a survey on people’s attitudes towards neuromarketing and related topics. We hope that you will all take this survey, as well as shard this link to as many people as...
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Neuroaesthetics book out!
I am sure loads of you neuroscience buffs out there will be interested in hearing that a new book on neuroaesthetics has just been published. Edited by myself and Oshin Vartanian, it is published by...
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In March, the Center for Academic Research & Training in Anthropogeny hosted a conference on the “Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics”. The list of speakers was pretty impressive. Luckily,...
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Conference on neuroaesthetics
I am one of the organizers of a three day conference on neuroaesthetics that takes place at the University of Copenhagen from September 24 to September 26. If you are interested in the relation between...
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Got an award, maybe it’s time to start up again?
Yes, we just got an Awarding the Web Award, for getting the Top Ethics Blog award in the Medical category! And, I should add, thanks a lot for all the good emails we receive from time to time about our...
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New edition: Cognition, Brain and Consciousness
Yes, now it’s out as a second edition. The big cognitive neuroscience textbook entitled “Cognition, Brain and Consciousness” is edited by Bernard J. Baars and Nicole Gage, and has already received good...
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Sex and money: common or different currencies?
How are values computed in the brain? Rewards can be as many things: the expectation when having just ordered your favourite dish; the child’s joy at Christmas Eve; the enjoyment of good music or the...
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WE ARE MOVING!!! please go to http://brainethics.org
Yes, it is time to restart, reboot, rehash and get onwards. After some time doing science and teaching, we are most motivated (read: not only using incentive salience) to continue with the BrainEthics...
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