Someone sent me an article on a model of female response to stress that was developed in recent years by Shelley Taylor, a social psychologist at UCLA. Since I was unaware of this model and found it interesting, I thought I would share. Here is how the article begins: Move …
According to a recent paper in Nature Neuroscience, children with autism have virtually no activity in their brain’s mirror neuron system, the apparatus that facilitates imitation and empathy. The researchers believe this malfunction may be the primary cause of autism. Link.
The standard story about the demise of introspectionist psychology goes something like this: Towards the beginning of the 20th Century, experimental psychologists relied on introspecting subjects to study the mind. Members of one prominent school believed that each thought is reducible to sensory images (visual, auditory including verbal, proprioceptive, etc.). Among …
Scientists believe they have found a way to probe the mysterious phenomenon of feeling you have witnessed something before – deja vu: https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5194382.stm.
I open a thread where you can leave some comments on chap. 1. A few of you have already sent me written comments. Many thanks.
In comments to some previous posts, Marcin Milkowski raised a spirited defense of Dennett’s heterophenomenology (HF) as a correct methodology of data from first-person reports (about mental states). Among other statements, he made the following: “HF is not about inferring beliefs from verbal behavior in any setting. It’s about …
I sent the first chapter of my book by e-mail. If you volunteered to read it, but have not received it, it’s because I do not have your mail. I will open a thread on Monday. If you want to send me comments before, please do it by e-mail. Thanks …
