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Predicting emotion

08/11/2013 08:02
Tali Sharot, UCL, London In:- Neuroscience of Preference and Choice – Eds:- Dolan, R. & Sharot, T. The author examines the extent to which choices of behaviour emerge from the emotional system. It is stressed that this does not necessarily refer to immediate emotions but also to anticipated...

Chaos and brain

08/11/2013 08:00
Disorderly Genius David Robson - New Scientist, 27 June 2009 The 1980s idea that chaos, in the technical sense of chaos theory, plays a role in brain function has seen a revival as a result of studies performed since 2006. Chaos theory demonstrates that tiny changes in a system can amplify up into...

Amygdala

08/11/2013 07:59
The Human Amygdala Eds:  Paul Whalen & Elizabeth Phelps This book gives coverage of the amygdala, with regard to a wide spread of neuroscience, medicine and psychology. We summarise those chapters that are more relevant to consciousness. In that we are conscious of emotions, and recent...

The executive brain

08/11/2013 07:54
Elkonon Goldberg The author emphasises that the frontal lobes of the brain are crucial to purposeful behaviour, such as, identifying objects, making complex decisions, creating plans to achieve objectives, and monitoring the outcome of actions directed at these goals. These are the executive...

Free Will

08/11/2013 07:23
Sam Harris Free Press (2012) Libet’s famous experiment is introduced at an early stage in this book, and along with similar experiments, it is essentially the whole basis of the author’s argument. In Libet’s studies, activity in the motor cortex was apparent about 300 milliseconds before subjects...

Wegner on the conscious will

08/11/2013 07:21
Tim Bayne - Dept. of Philosophy, Oxford University Bayne starts by summarising Wegner’s view of the conscious will. Wegner is seen as taking the view that conscious will is an introspective preview of actions before they are taken. Wegner also holds that conscious will is an illusion, which is here...

Dennett on freewill

08/11/2013 07:19
Daniel Dennett In:  Are We Free? Psychology and Free Will  Eds. Baer, J. Kaufman, J. & Baumeister, R. This chapter is remarkable for Dennett’s style. There can be little doubt that Dennett’s dominance over much of modern consciousness studies is due in part to the beguiling quality of...

Do we have freewill

08/11/2013 07:17
Benjamin Libet The article concentrates on Libet’s own experiments showing that unconscious electrical activity in the brain preceded voluntary actions by up to 400ms. This discovery has been widely seized on, although not be Libet himself, as a proof that freewill does not exist and thus as a...

The freewill delusion

08/11/2013 07:15
Dan Jones - New Scientist Dan Jones admits at the beginning of his article that recent psychological experiments suggest that loss of believe in free will leads to less honest and more selfish behaviour. Jones quotes the example of a study carried out by Kathleen Vohs and Jonathan Schooler (1.). A...

Libet’s Mind Time

08/11/2013 07:14
Benjamin Libet In his introductory chapter, Libet admits that his views on subjective phenomena have altered somewhat since he was a young scientist. He says that he started with a full belief in determinsitic materialism, but has come round to the view that the subjective cannot be derived...
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