Many of you may be interested to know that amnesiac patient HM’s brain is currently being cut into histological slices at UCSD. This momentous event in neuroscience is being streamed live from the Brain Observatory at UCSD. Today is particularly exciting because they will reach HM’s medial temporal lobes– the …
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(cross posted at Philosophy Sucks!) I have previously argued that synchronous neural activity is a candidate for a theoretical account of what a brain state is. Here is an Interesting article reviewing a new paper that suggests an interesting role for neural synchrony. I would be interested to hear what others thought about the idea …
Dario Taraborelli has asked me to attract your attention to a new journal, The Review of Philosophy of Psychology. The RPP accepts proposals for special issues as well as submitted articles, and the editors welcome articles in the philosophy of mind and psychology (Dario is the editor in chief). Keep this …
Yes! Some people don’t realize this. Someone recently objected to me that since McCulloch and Pitts were studying the brain, they must be offering only a theory of neural activity, on the same level as, say, Hodgkin and Huxley. How can I say that McCulloch and Pitts had a theory of cognition? Although …
Something really weird happened today: A duplication of Shannon’s post on mirror neurons and simulation theory appeared out of the blue under my name (Gualtiero). I apologize for the inconvenience; I had nothing to do with it and hopefully it won’t happen again. (The tech support people didn’t have an …
Hi folks. I’m one of the new kids on the virtual block. Thanks to Gualtiero for giving me the opportunity to contribute here. I’m interested in the relation between mirror neurons and social cognition. Mirror neurons are neurons in our brains that fire for boththe first-person experience and the third-person …
