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• Brain Scan Used In Murder Trial

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 560
  In what is believed to be a legal precedent, the Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan, or FMRI, of a convicted rapist and murderer will be used against him during his sentencing phase.  Brian Dugan, who was convicted in Chicago of the rape and murder of a 10-year-old, received the FMRI and entered it into ...
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• I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 487
  Following up on that story yesterday of a man who had been trapped in his body, conscious but unable to respond for twenty-three years, there’s now some apparently well-founded skepticism about the report. I first saw this at Pharyngula , where he makes the point that “facilitated communication” looks an ...
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• THE REALITY CLUB: On "Signatures of Consciousness: A Talk by Stanislas Dehaene"

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 441
  Geeky goodness from Edge . The links to the other three men (Daniel Kahneman , Sam Harris , George Dyson ) will take you to their responses the presentation. This is a long article, but the neuroscience is cutting edge for anyone interested in the field - and Sam Harriss response is very interesting. ...
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• Courtroom First: Brain Scan Used in Murder Sentencing

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 774
  A defendant’s fMRI brain scan has been used in court for what is believed to be the first time. Brain scan evidence that the defense claimed shows the defendant’s brain was psychopathic was allowed into the sentencing portion of a murder trial in Chicago, Science reported Monday. Brian Dugan, who had been ...
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• Neurevolution - Cingulate Cortex and the Evolution of Human Uniqueness

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 441
  Cool, geeky brain science stuff. Cingulate Cortex and the Evolution of Human Uniqueness Figuring out how the brain decides between two options is difficult. This is especially true for the human brain, whose activity is typically accessible only via the small and occasionally distorted window ...
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• Trained wine tasters think more about their sips

  
  Anything Wine — Authority: 118
  After reading the story in the Wall Street Journal about “ Why wine ratings are badly flawed ?” it got me thinking. Not about wine ratings because that part of the article I agree with, wine ratings are subjective, and can generally be inconsistent across various types of “raters”. I’ve always thought it ...
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• Why It’s Hard To Stop Believing In Santa Claus

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  When, as a child, I first encountered the idea that Santa Claus might not be real, I balked. Usually, I looked up to older, wiser kids, but they seemed naïve to suggest that my parents were actually stuffing my stocking. Why, on December 24th, would the weatherman bother using his radar to track a hefty gentleman ...
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• The Neuroscience of Music Enjoyment and Depression

  
  Dr Shock MD PhD — Authority: 500
  When feeling down good music can cheer you up . But when depressed, I mean clinically depressed , can you enjoy music? How is music enjoyment processed by the brain and how is this influenced by depression? All participants of this study enjoyed their favorite music more than the neutral music and depressed ...
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• My avatar, my self

  
  NetFamilyNews — Authority: 496
  Neuroscientists are looking into the relationship between self and avatar. A study of World of Warcraft players in their 20s (14 men and 1 women) who spend an average of 23 hours a week in the game/world was recently presented at the Society of Neuroscience, NewScientist.com reports . From fMRI scans of the players ...
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• Where Is the Semantic System? A Critical Review and Meta-Analysis of 120 Functional Neuroimaging Studies

  
  COMD News — Authority: 157
  Semantic memory refers to knowledge about people, objects, actions, relations, self, and culture acquired through experience. The neural systems that store and retrieve this information have been studied for many years, but a consensus regarding their identity has not been reached. Using strict inclusion criteria, we ...
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• Neural networks involved in voluntary and involuntary vocal pitch regulation in experienced singers

  
  COMD News — Authority: 157
  In an fMRI experiment, we tested experienced singers with singing tasks to investigate neural correlates of voluntary and involuntary vocal pitch regulation. We shifted the pitch of auditory feedback (±25 or 200 cents), and singers either: 1) ignored the shift and maintained their vocal pitch or 2) changed their ...
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• How To Spot the Liars: The Next Revolution In Truth Telling

  
  The Playing Field — Authority: 104
  How to spot liars is big business. Over the past decade, if you believe the hype, applying the tools of contemporary neuroscience-eye-tracking, face-reading, fMRI, and the like-to the detection of falsehood is an emerging market all its own. As far as the authenticity of these measures, scientists have come to no ...
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• Brain and Awareness – The Secret of You (Horizon)

  
  BioethicsBytes — Authority: 100
  Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy is becoming an increasingly regular front-man for the BBC science documentary Horizon and, to date, his contributions have always been satisfyingly informative. The recent episode The Secret You is no exception. In his quest to discover the underlying biochemistry and physiology of ...
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• Language or music, mother or Mozart? Structural and environmental influences on infants’ language networks

  
  COMD News — Authority: 157
  Understanding how language emerged in our species calls for a detailed investigation of the initial specialization of the human brain for speech processing. Our earlier research demonstrated that an adult-like left-lateralized network of perisylvian areas is already active when infants listen to sentences in their ...
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• Optoacoustics releases new microphone for fMRI

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 164
  Sound system developer Optoacoustics will unveil the third generation of its noise-canceling optical microphone at the 2009 RSNA conference.source : www.auntminnie.com
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