Recently a talented vision scientist in my lab published a paper in Science showing that one can induce perceptual learning in an experimental participant through neurofeedback alone (i.e. they were able to improve the fit between the participants’ brain activity and an fMRI decoder for a particular orientation by asking …
Anyone looking, or temptable to be on, the job market might be interested in the following fellowships (they may not be aware of them since these may not appear in Jobs for Philosophers)… They are a pretty amazing deal: 5 years of research time with a permanent lectureship at the …
From the work of Hannah Riley Bowles and Linda Babcock, the former of whom headlined a workshop at the Cognitive Science Society this past summer on the topic (https://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/uploads/2011-w6.pdf): “Perhaps, the most direct contribution of this research is to the study of the compensation negotiation dilemma for women. This research adds …
As reported on UCL News, “UCL reports with great sadness the death on 28 November of Jon Driver, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, and one of the world’s leading psychologists and neuroscientists. Professor Jon Driver Professor Driver was formerly Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN) and …
The deadline is Dec 5th! Note the updated special sessions! I am pleased to announce the call for papers for the fourth online consciousness conference. the Invited Program includes, Bernard Baars, The Neurosciences Institute Special Session on Attention, Awareness, and Expectation organized by the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and …
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Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy has a new Call for Abstracts, and the deadline is in less than a month, on Dec. 15. To submit, all you need to do is prepare a brief (1,000 word) abstract. The editors then invite full papers based on these abstracts, and those who …
