word/taste synaesthesia
The NY Times Nov 23 front page has an article about word/taste synaesthesia: there are 10 people known who experience tastes when they hear (or read) words.
Category: Neuroscience
The Necker cube
Hi everyone, You probably know these lines from Vision: “… To be sure, part of the explanation of [the Necker cube’s] perceptual reversal must have to do with a bistable neural network (that is, one with two distinct stable states) somewhere inside the brain… ” (Marr, 1982 p.25-26) How do the current …
The Brain’s ‘Steady Cam’
Bob Gordon sent me this MSNBC.com Article: New study reveals the brain’s ‘steady cam’. Our eyes constantly flit around, but rather than producing a shaky image like that in a jostled video camera, we perceive a coherent scene. Now researchers have identified what could be the brain circuit responsible for …
Synthese Issue on Neuroscience
As I mentioned earlier, an issue of Synthese devoted to computational explanation in neuroscience and related topics is about to come out. The articles are now available on the Synthese website. (You can see the abstracts; to see the articles, you or your institution needs to subscribe to the journal.)G. Piccinini, …
What Neuroscientists Do
Impressions from the 2006 Society for Neuroscience Meeting The 2006 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) took place here in Atlanta last Saturday to Wednesday. As a “neurophilosopher” I felt I couldn’t pass up this opportunity to attend, so I paid my $145 for membership in SfN so I …
Do cognitive neuroscientist really think…
Dear virtual community, This may be a really stupid question, but I am obsessed. Couple of weeks ago a lecturer asked me in a lecture: ”A-M, do cognitive (neuro)scientists really think that the female and male brains are different?” I said: “Yes, pretty much so. The empirical – for example anatomical – …
Neuroethics Article
A (nontechnical) review of recent work in neuroethics.