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September 30, 2006

Is That My Hand Or Yours? Mirror Neurons and the Sense of Self and Other

Category: Cognitive Neuroscience

One of the top ten coolest experiments ever has to be Botvinick and Cohen's "rubber hand" experiment1. I'm going to let them describe the manipulation: Each of ten subjects was seated with their left arm resting upon a small table....

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September 29, 2006

All Mirror Neurons, All the Time

Category: Cognitive Neuroscience

The last couple weeks have seen a flurry of papers on mirror neurons, with three in last week's issue of Current Biology, and the paper on mirror neurons and sexual orientation in press at NeuroImage (is it just me, or...

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September 27, 2006

The Official Seal of Mixing Memory

Category: Miscellaneous

OK, I learned of this site from Positive Liberty, and tried desperately to resist it, but ultimately was unable to. The result of my weakness: And if you recognize the "slogan," the answer is yes, I am a big fan....

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Terror Management and Religious Fundamentalism

Category: Social Cognition

The other day, I talked about terror management theory (TMT) and modern art. That probably wasn't the best way to introduce TMT, because it's a bit of a stretch to turn TMT into an aesthetic theory. Instead, I should have...

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September 24, 2006

Music Cognition Blog

Category: Blogs and Blogging

I just got an email about a new blog on music cognition, Sound and Mind. From the email: The vision for Sound and Mind is to provide an interdisciplinary hub, a place for cognitive musicologists, scientists, and critical theorists to...

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Reviews of Moral Minds

Category: Cognitive Science News

Via Will Wilkerson, I learned of Richard Rorty's very good review of Marc Hauser's Moral Minds. He's very critical both of Hauser's moral nativism and of Hauser's more optimistic claims about the study of moral psychology. John McKhail, who is...

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September 23, 2006

Cool Visual Illusions: The Margaret Thatcher Illusion

Category: Visual Illusions

I was reminded of this illusion by the Seed Daily Zeitgeist yesterday. In order to get the full effect, I'll show you one set of photos here, and the rest of the post will be below the fold. The first...

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September 22, 2006

Linkage

Category: Link Posts

Been a while, but I thought I'd start doing this again now and then. First, the serious link. If you haven't read about the doctor and five nurses who have been unjustly sentenced to death in Libya, you should. Unfortunately,...

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September 21, 2006

Reflections on the End of an Era

Category: Miscellaneous

A few days ago, the New York Mets clinched the National League East title, becoming the first team to win a division with the Atlanta Braves in it, other than the Braves, since 1990 (excluding the strike-shortened 1994 season, of...

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Mixing Memory is 2 Years Old

Category: Blogs and Blogging

Earlier this month, Mixing Memory turned 2 years old. So, happy belated birthday, Mixing Memory, and thanks to everyone who's visited in the last two years, and especially to those who've left comments and feedback. If you haven't yet left...

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