Encephalon n°12: demandez le menu!
4 Dec 2006 5:24pm GMT For its twelfth edition, Encephalon is moving to France, chez AlphaPsy; relax, take a seat - this is Olivier, the garçon, speaking - I will give you a tour of the menu our blogging chefs prepared. Yes, that's the Tour Eiffel over there; yes, monsieur, it may look like a reversed pyramidal neuron, from a certain angle. Bon Appétit!
Encephalon Blog Carnival: last call for submissions!
2 Dec 2006 5:17pm GMT Dear Brains, The next issue of Encephalon, the cognitive science blogs carnival, will be hosted here on Monday! Don't forget to submit, and thanks to those who already did. I am already having a very good time reading your contributions. See you monday!
The Ghost of the Machines
1 Dec 2006 2:30pm GMT Some historians of technology have surmised that in some areas (like Far East and the West), industrial advance had much deeper roots than its mere hundred years of existence would suggest. This view is enjoying rare and well-deserved attention this week, as Nature discloses a CT Scan reconstitution of the famous Antikythera mechanism, a computerized calendar from roman times. This same day, I discover an article from NBER, published in last october, that states that significant differences in...
In the last volume of Psychological Science
29 Nov 2006 8:12am GMT The last volume of Psychological Science has more than its fair share of interesting / funny papers. Here is a little selection. Dali's "Persistence of Nonconscious Priming".
Cooperative Eyes
20 Nov 2006 9:23am GMT The Journal of Human Evolution prepares an issue on the evolution of human eyes; two articles are already downloadable on line; one of them by Michael Tomasello and his team. It defends a "cooperative eyes" hypothesis, according to which human eyes evolved to be white around the pupil, because it made our conspecifics' gaze more conspicuous, and hence allowed for increased cooperation in tasks involving joint attention. The function of human eyes would not only be seeing, but also...