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Jonah Lehrer is a contributing editor at Wired. He's also written for The New Yorker, Seed, Nature, the Boston Globe and is a contributor to Radio Lab. He's the author of Proust Was A Neuroscientist. His new book is How We Decide.
April 30, 2007
Category: Culture
So here's a link to my future book (due out in November), which gives you a nice little synopsis of the subject. What do you think of the cover?* *I'm personally interested in whether or not most people recognize the...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 11:46 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Culture
Why we need more geriatric specialists
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 10:10 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 29, 2007
Category: Neuroscience
I've got an article in the Boston Globe Ideas section today on the cognitive revolution, and recent research demonstrating the relationship between cognition and emotion. Ever since Plato, scholars have drawn a clear distinction between thinking and feeling. Cognitive psychology...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 12:00 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 26, 2007
Category: Culture
Alison Gopnik has written a thoroughly entertaining takedown of the mirror-neuron hype: The myth of mirror neurons may not do much harm. Perhaps it's even good for science that in the 21st century we turn to the brain, rather than...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 7:37 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
Mike Penner, a sports writer for the LA Times, has decided to become a woman. He will return to the paper as Christine Daniels. He wrote a gripping personal reflection for the paper explaining his decision: Transsexualism is a complicated...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 11:37 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Culture
Christof Koch makes a compelling argument: My empirical studies into the neurobiology of consciousness have convinced me that many species share the sights and sounds of life with us humans. Why? First, except for size, there are no large-scale, dramatic...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 10:15 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 25, 2007
Category: Neuroscience
Does football cause brain damage?
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 1:20 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Culture
Why the middle class feels so squeezed.
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 9:49 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 24, 2007
Category: Culture
Take note historians of the future. When you set out to write your tome, The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, you might find the following three stories, all of them appearing in today's New York Times, to be...
Posted by Jonah Lehrer at 11:17 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Culture
Not all wags mean the same thing. Careful analysis reveals an emotional difference between wags to the right and wags to the left. This asymmetry reflects an underlying asymmetry built into the mammalian brain: When dogs feel fundamentally positive about...
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