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Encephalon #12 is up at AlphaPsy.

The Neurophilosopher has a cool article on Phineas Gage -- a patient that is often used as an example in neuroscience classes because he had a railroad spike tamping iron go through his head and cause personality changes.

The Mungers at Cognitive Daily are starting a podcast. Nice.

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Encephalon n°12: demandez le menu! is up on AlphaPsy.
Just a heads up, the old "AlphaPsy" weblog is now Cognition & Culture.
Along with Dave I would like to bring to your attention AlphaPsy, a blog devoted to the
Back in August AlphaPsy had series of posts on 'naturalism' in the context of culture. Check them out!

An error in your first sentence caught my eye. It wasn't a railroad spike. It was a tamping rod.

Funny what a person stores in long term memory. I recalled this from a visit to the Waren Museum at HMS 45 years ago. As far as know, I hadn't thought about this between then and now.

By Thomas Weston (not verified) on 06 Dec 2006 #permalink