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 …
Here: https://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0608062103v1
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Last week at the 2006 PSA Meeting, there was a session with Michael Dickson, editor of Philosophy of Science. What he had to say is especially interesting in light of recent controversies on how philosophy journals are run.Here are a few things I remember Michael Dickson saying (paraphrased by me):1. …
The fourth issue of PMS WIPS is out, featuring “The Unreliability of Naive Introspection” by Eric Schwitzgebel, University of California at Riverside. Comments are open on this and previous issues of PMS WIPS. Upcoming issues are scheduled as follows: Nov 15, 2006 – PMS WIPS 005 – Nicholas Maxwell, University …
[Post by Neil Levy]Brains blogger Ken Aizawa is well-known for (among other things) his opposition to the extended mind thesis. To refresh your memories, the extended mind thesis is the view, associated especially with Andy Clark (but also subscribed to by fellow-blogger Rob Wilson, as well as a growing number …
Cfp on the topic of Imagination and Creativity for the Arts and Neurosciences Review Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France (Deadline: February 15, 2007) ARTS and NEUROSCIENCES REVIEW Established in the Institut Jean Nicod, an interdisciplinary lab interface between the humanities and the cognitive sciences, ARTS and NEUROSCIENCES REVIEW presents articles, …
