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Neurontic covers breakthroughs in neuroscience and psychology and is designed to give laypeople a window into the inner workings of the human mind. Orli Van Mourik is a freelance journalist in New York City. Her work has appeared in Psychology Today Magazine .
January 4, 2006
Category: Evolutionary Psychology
I recently started reading Blank Slate, by Steven Pinker, an MIT psychologist, much lauded for his poetic approach to science writing. There can be no doubt, the man's a great writer. But he's also far smarter than the average bear...
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January 3, 2006
Category: Animal Psychology
The New York Times Magazine ran a fascinating article by Charles Siebert, The Animal Self, last weekend about a newly minted field of psychology called Animal Personality. The burgeoning psychological school subscribes to the theory that animals, like humans, are...
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January 2, 2006
Category: Neuroscience
Okay, so let's do a quick recap. How exactly do mirror neurons work? And why do they suggest that normally functioning human beings are hard wired for empathy?Here's my working definition. (Those with a firmer grasp on the specifics will...
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January 1, 2006
Category: Neuroscience
The New York Times (Cells That Read Minds) and The Wall Street Journal (How Mirror Neurons Help Us to Empathize) published a couple of articles at the beginning of this month about mirror neurons. Now, I don't generally scour the...
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