Neuroscience News Our FriendFeedThanks to listener Ian Stevens I have discovered a blog that you might enjoyed. It is Deric Bownd’s MindBlog. He does a great job of keeping up with news on the neuroscience front. Bownds is a retired from the University of Wisconsin where he spent many years exploring how vision works and then [...]
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This episode is an interview with Sandra Blakeslee, co-author (with her son Matthew) of The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps Help You Do (almost) Everything Better, which we discussed in episode 21.
I asked Blakeslee to tell me a little bit of [...]
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The audio files for both of my podcasts are hosted on Libsyn and they have recently changed the addresses for people’s podcast audio files. Unfortunately this means that I probably have a lot of bad links floating around not just on this site, but in numerous other locations around the internet. I intend to try [...]
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Michael Arbib of USC discusses (Talking Robots 10/12/07) how the discovery of mirror neurons is inspiring attempts to design robots that can emulate human emotions. This is part of a larger trend in robotics which is called biological robotics in which designs are inspired by biological systems. It is significant that what is learned by [...]
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I am happy to report that Nature has relaunched its neuroscience podcast under the new name NeuroPod. If you like the Nature podcast but would rather hear a show devoted to the latest Nature articles on neuroscience, you will want to check this out at http://www.nature.com/neurosci/neuropod.
If you prefer blogs, you might want to check out [...]
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Brain Science Podcast #22 is an interview with Dr. Christof Koch of Cal Tech, one of the pioneers in the neurobiological study of consciousness. About two decades ago when Koch and Francis Crick began looking for what they called the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC), such a quest was considered [...]
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