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‘X-Phi’ (Experimental Philosophy) – Exploring the Great Questions in the Lab

Traditionally, the discipline of philosophy has been pursued in a chair at a desk. “But recently, ‘experimental’ philosophers have used surveys, fMRI’s, and other tools from psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science to analyze age-old philosophical problems.” Half a dozen professors debate whether x-phi is a promising new approach or a waste of time, money and … Continue reading “‘X-Phi’ (Experimental Philosophy) – Exploring the Great Questions in the Lab”

Strasberg And The Method: The Next Generation

Lee Strasberg’s son David Lee is maintaining his late father’s acting schools in Manhattan and West Hollywood and even opening a new branch in Mumbai next year. He argues that the Method “is less reliant on psychobabble than most people believe. … [More] interesting is the way developments in neuroscience keep cropping up in his conversation.”

Did Moliere Suspect? Study Links Miserliness, Testosterone

“‘Our broad conclusion is that testosterone causes men essentially to be stingy,’ says Karen Redwine, a neuro-economist at Whittier College in California, who presented the work at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting in Chicago last week.”

Music Inside The Brain

“Cognitive and neuroscience research on music has been exploding these days, driven by techno logical breakthroughs in brain imaging and a newly widespread openness toward music as a legitimate field of scientific study. It’s hard to miss the reverberations.”

The Machine That Can Tell What You’re Thinking

“In a study published Sunday in Nature Neuroscience, researchers using brain scanners could predict people’s decisions seven seconds before the test subjects were even aware of making them. The findings raise profound questions about the nature of self and autonomy: How free is our will? Is conscious choice just an illusion?”

A Sixth Sense – Morality?

“Today, a new field is using illusions to unmask a sixth sense, the moral sense. Moral intuitions are being drawn out of people in the lab, on Web sites and in brain scanners, and are being explained with tools from game theory, neuroscience and evolutionary biology.”

Neurological Overstep – What The Artists Didn’t Do

“Neurological breakthroughs attributed to turn-of-the-century artists range from the maddeningly vague to the absurdly specific. We now know that Proust was right about memory, Cezanne was uncannily accurate about the visual cortex, Stein anticipated Chomsky, and Woolf pierced the mystery of consciousness; modern neuroscience has confirmed these artistic intuitions.”

Your Brain On Trial

“The legal profession in America is taking an increasing interest in neuroscience. There is a flourishing academic discipline of “neurolaw” and neurolawyers are penetrating the legal system.”

Is It True Brains Can Only Decline With Age? No!

“Until quite recently orthodox neuroscience held that only the brains of young children are resilient, malleable, and morphable–in a word, plastic. This neuroplasticity, as it is called, seems to fade steadily as the brain congeals into its fixed adult configuration. The mature brain, scientists concluded, can only decline. It turns out this theory is not … Continue reading “Is It True Brains Can Only Decline With Age? No!”

Link: Music And Language

“Researchers have found that people with musical training have an easier time learning Chinese. Writing in the online edition of Nature Neuroscience, researchers from Northwestern University say that both skills draw on parts of the brain that help people detect changes in pitch.”