Philosophy posts
- January 27, 2012
- 10:10 AM
- 108 views
Oxford University Censor First Broadcast of Lecture That Resulted in Censuring of Prof. Nutt, Former UK Government Drugs Advisor
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
Watch the full video of the lecture and uncover what was in the slides censored for "copyright reasons"... Read more »
Nutt, D., King, L., & Phillips, L. (2010) Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis. The Lancet, 376(9752), 1558-1565. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61462-6
Nutt, D. (2009) Estimating drug harms: a risky business?. Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. info:/
Halpern JH, Sherwood AR, Hudson JI, Gruber S, Kozin D, & Pope HG Jr. (2011) Residual neurocognitive features of long-term ecstasy users with minimal exposure to other drugs. Addiction (Abingdon, England), 106(4), 777-86. PMID: 21205042
Carhart-Harris, R., Erritzoe, D., Williams, T., Stone, J., Reed, L., Colasanti, A., Tyacke, R., Leech, R., Malizia, A., Murphy, K.... (2012) Neural correlates of the psychedelic state as determined by fMRI studies with psilocybin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1119598109
Editorial team. (2010) The EMCDDA annual report 2010: the state of the drugs problem in Europe. The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, also published in Euro surveillance :European communicable disease bulletin, 15(46). PMID: 21144426
- January 26, 2012
- 01:14 PM
- 96 views
NOT "Killed by Cannabis"
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A quick factual decomposition of the assertion that cannabis is lethal, made by the Daily Mail in response to Richard Branson's evidence at the Select Committee on drugs.... Read more »
Hughes CE, & Stevens A. (2012) A resounding success or a disastrous failure: Re-examining the interpretation of evidence on the Portuguese decriminalisation of illicit drugs. Drug and alcohol review, 31(1), 101-13. PMID: 22212070
- January 25, 2012
- 03:59 AM
- 118 views
The Hidden Face Within
by Neuroskeptic in Neuroskeptic
One of these two images contains a hidden picture of a face. Which one?This was the question faced by participants in a remarkable psychology experiment just published, Measuring Internal Representations from Behavioral and Brain Data. Five healthy volunteers were presented with a series of random black and white grid patterns. Each grid square was either black or white, and this was randomly determined on each trial.There was no pattern to the images, they were completely random. But the subjec........ Read more »
Smith, M., Gosselin, F., & Schyns, P. (2012) Measuring Internal Representations from Behavioral and Brain Data. Current Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.11.061
- January 24, 2012
- 10:24 PM
- 20 views
“Who’s There?” Is The Self A Convenient Fiction?
by Sam McNerney in Why We Reason
For a long time people thought that the self was unified and eternal. It’s easy to see why. We feel like we have an essence; we grow old, gain and lose friends, and change preferences but we are the same person from day one. The idea of the unified self has had a rough few [...]... Read more »
Volpe BT, Ledoux JE, & Gazzaniga MS. (1979) Information processing of visual stimuli in an "extinguished" field. Nature, 282(5740), 722-4. PMID: 514351
- January 20, 2012
- 05:28 PM
- 165 views
Copyright Talk: The RIAA Bites the Hand That Feeds
by DJ Busby in Astronasty
The perpetrators seem to be the RIAA's best friends. They just haven't have realized it yet. This should be motivation enough for the RIAA's to halt their lobbying, at least until they learn to read. In a business sense, for them to push the legislation of SOPA/PIPA seems ridiculous, given this context, doesn't it?... Read more »
Marta Ceballos. (2003) An Overview of Copyright and Intellectual Property . Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues. info:/
Bounie, D., Bourreau, M., & Waelbroeck, P. (2005) Pirates or Explorers? Analysis of Music Consumption in French Graduate Schools. SSRN Electronic Journal. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.739284
- January 16, 2012
- 09:51 AM
- 179 views
Is this journal for real?
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
This year 134 suspect new journals have appeared from the abyss, all published by the same clandestine company “Scientific & Academic Publishing, USA“. Scientists have been quick to raise the alarm and ruthless in their response.... Read more »
Morrison, Heather. (2012) Scholarly Communication in Crisis. Freedom for scholarship in the internet age. Simon Fraser University School of Communication. info:/
- January 16, 2012
- 08:00 AM
- 43 views
What Are the Costs of Lending a Helping Hand?
by Krystal D'Costa in Anthropology in Practice
I boarded my commuter train with all of five minutes to spare, so I knew my prospects for getting a seat were slim. That didn’t bother me too much since the vestibule was mostly empty—there was a man standing at the other door silently rocking out to whatever was playing on his headphones, so I [...]
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Bartal, I., Decety, J., & Mason, P. (2011) Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior in Rats. Science, 334(6061), 1427-1430. DOI: 10.1126/science.1210789
de Waal, F. (2007) With a Little Help from a Friend. PLoS Biology, 5(7). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050190
Shapiro, E. (1980) Is Seeking Help from a Friend Like Seeking Help from a Stranger?. Social Psychology Quarterly, 43(2), 259. DOI: 10.2307/3033629
Schwartz, S., & David, A. (1976) Responsibility and Helping in an Emergency: Effects of Blame, Ability and Denial of Responsibility. Sociometry, 39(4), 406. DOI: 10.2307/3033505
Stevens, J. (2004) The selfish nature of generosity: harassment and food sharing in primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 271(1538), 451-456. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2625
Fehr, E., & Fischbacher, U. (2003) The nature of human altruism. Nature, 425(6960), 785-791. DOI: 10.1038/nature02043
Horner, V., Carter, J., Suchak, M., & de Waal, F. (2011) Spontaneous prosocial choice by chimpanzees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(33), 13847-13851. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1111088108
- January 10, 2012
- 02:58 PM
- 159 views
The Plight of Psychoanalysis?
by Neuroskeptic in Neuroskeptic
A New York psychoanalyst reveals her concerns about the profession in A Letter to Freud: On the Plight of PsychoanalysisDinah M. Mendes's letter covers several topics, but I was struck by the sections that deal with the contemporary challenges facing American analysts. She paints a rather sad picture of analysts who spend years in training, only to find a shortage of people out there who want their treatment:At psychoanalytic training institutes it is often difficult for candidates to secure con........ Read more »
Mendes, D. (2011) Letter to Freud: On the Plight of Psychoanalysis. The Psychoanalytic Review, 98(6), 755-774. DOI: 10.1521/prev.2011.98.6.755
- January 7, 2012
- 06:12 PM
- 104 views
The difference between population concepts and “population thinking”
by John S. Wilkins in Evolving Thoughts
The late Ernst Mayr is remembered for many things, but a number of his historical and philosophical claims are unravelling. The very clever and perspicacious Rutgers geneticist, Jody Hey, has published a paper in the Quarterly Review of Biology on … Continue reading →... Read more »
Jody Hey. (2011) Regarding the confusion between the population concept and Mayr’s “population thinking”. Quarterly Review of Biology, 86(4), 253-264. info:/
- January 6, 2012
- 08:00 AM
- 127 views
Questioning Permanence: Would You Get a QR Code Tattoo?
by Krystal D'Costa in Anthropology in Practice
Are you inked? I’m not, though I’ve thought about it seriously and have a pretty good idea of what I would get and where I would put it—if I could work up the nerve to get in the chair. I’ll tell you one thing: It most certainly is not a QR code like Fred Bosch, who [...]
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Caplan, J. (1997) 'Speaking Scars': The Tattoo in Popular Practice and Medico-Legal Debate in Nineteenth-Century Europe. History Workshop Journal: HWJ, 107-42. PMID: 11619699
Dye, I. (1989) The tattoos of Early American Seafarers, 1796-1818. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 133(4), 520-554. info:/
Irwin, K. (2001) Legitimating the First Tattoo: Moral Passage through Informal Interaction. Symbolic Interaction, 24(1), 49-73. DOI: 10.1525/si.2001.24.1.49
Schildkrout, E. (2004) Inscribing the Body. Annual Review of Anthropology, 33(1), 319-344. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143947
- January 5, 2012
- 07:30 PM
- 166 views
Huge personality differences between men and women
by Carian Thus in United Academics
Are you still looking for that special person that perfectly matches your personality? Stop searching. Men and woman really are living on different planets when it comes to their personalities, according to new research of the University of Turin and the Manchester Business School.... Read more »
Del Giudice M, Booth T, & Irwing P. (2012) The Distance Between Mars and Venus: Measuring Global Sex Differences in Personality. . PLoS ONE. info:/10.1371/journal.pone.0029265
- January 4, 2012
- 09:39 PM
- 158 views
A Walkthrough To Find Credible Souces and Answers to the Controversies of Vaccines, Evolution, Holocaust, and Global Warming
by DJ Busby in Astronasty
Where do you get your facts?
Hopefully, a reliable source.
So what's an online reliable source, and how can a regular Joe get a hold of this information?
A very easy way to be confident is to make sure that you're reading from an .edu or .gov page. One of the easiest (and quickest) ways to find your topic is through the citations on Wikipedia. Some people doubt the validity of Wikipedia in fear of hecklers. The nature or self-maintaining issue of Wikipedia aside, the citation........ Read more »
Bonhoeffer J, & Heininger U. (2007) Adverse events following immunization: perception and evidence. Current opinion in infectious diseases, 20(3), 237-46. PMID: 17471032
Demicheli V, Jefferson T, Rivetti A, & Price D. (2005) Vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella in children. Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online). PMID: 16235361
Committee on Revising Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. (2008) Science, Evolution, and Creationism. The National Academies Press. info:/9780309105866
Boykoff, M., & Boykoff, J. (2004) Balance as bias: global warming and the US prestige press. Global Environmental Change, 14(2), 125-136. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2003.10.001
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- January 4, 2012
- 12:34 AM
- 212 views
Why men don't listen and women are great at maths
by Andrew Watt in A Hippo on Campus
Ask the average person on the street if men and women are wired differently and you'll more often than not get an affirmatory response. Not overly suprising given the knowledge that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. Am I right? But dive a little deeper and chances are you'll find that the vast majority of people would be relying heavily on deeply ingrained stereotypes, such as the "mythically superior 'multitasking’ abilities" of women or men who just don't listen, rather than any s........ Read more »
Eliot, L. (2011) The Trouble with Sex Differences. Neuron, 72(6), 895-898. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.12.001
- January 2, 2012
- 02:07 AM
- 145 views
Principles for Patient Safety
by Dr Shock in Dr Shock MD PhD
Buffer Teaching patient safety starts in medical school. Hospitals can be weired chaotic places. It’s often a wonder everything keeps working as it should although failures do occur. Medical professionals come to realize that mistakes happen and they adapt their working procedures to those of the so called high reliability organizations such as aircrafts, airline [...]
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Prasanna, P., & Nagy, P. (2011) Learning From High-Reliability Organizations. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 8(10), 725-726. DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2011.06.020
- January 1, 2012
- 09:41 AM
- 223 views
Copyright vs Medicine: If this topic isn’t covered in your newspaper this weekend, get a new newspaper
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
According to the New England Journal of Medicine, after thirty years of silence, authors of a standard clinical psychiatric bedside test have issued take down orders of new medical research.... Read more »
Newman, J., & Feldman, R. (2011) Copyright and Open Access at the Bedside. New England Journal of Medicine, 365(26), 2447-2449. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1110652
- December 22, 2011
- 05:20 AM
- 189 views
An Objective Measure of Consciousness...?
by Neuroskeptic in Neuroskeptic
Could a puff of air in the eye offer a way to evaluate whether someone is conscious or not?Yes it could, say Cambridge's Tristan Bekinschtein and colleagues in a new paper about Sea slugs, subliminal pictures, and vegetative state patients.It's all about classical conditioning of the kind made famous by Pavlov. This is learning caused by the pairing of two stimuli, one of them unpleasant. So if I were to ring a little bell before, say, pepper spraying you, and I did that repeatedly, you would pr........ Read more »
Bekinschtein TA, Peeters M, Shalom D, & Sigman M. (2011) Sea slugs, subliminal pictures, and vegetative state patients: boundaries of consciousness in classical conditioning. Frontiers in psychology, 337. PMID: 22164148
- December 9, 2011
- 09:35 AM
- 113 views
Some Ground Rules for a Theory of Psychology
by Andrew Wilson in Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists
Add psychology to the listA fairly common response to our theory post was 'here's my theory, which is designed to replace and fix all the others'. However, it's more a symptom of the problem I was discussing than a solution for everyone to have their own entirely separate theory which doesn't talk to any other work in the field (see above). One of my personal goals in science is to not be that guy. I want to see cognitive science become more integrated, not more fragmented. We have also been ask........ Read more »
Clark, A., & Chalmers, D. (1998) The Extended Mind. Analysis, 58(1), 7-19. DOI: 10.1111/1467-8284.00096
Runeson, S. (1977) On the possibility of "smart" perceptual mechanisms. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 18(1), 172-179. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1977.tb00274.x
Turvey, M. (1992) Affordances and Prospective Control: An Outline of the Ontology. Ecological Psychology, 4(3), 173-187. DOI: 10.1207/s15326969eco0403_3
Turvey, M., Shaw, R., Reed, E., & Mace, W. (1981) Ecological laws of perceiving and acting: In reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn (1981). Cognition, 9(3), 237-304. DOI: 10.1016/0010-0277(81)90002-0
van Gelder, T. (1995) What might cognition be, if not computation?. The Journal of Philosophy, 92(7), 345-381. info:/
Warren, W. (1984) Perceiving affordances: Visual guidance of stair climbing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 10(5), 683-703. DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.10.5.683
- November 22, 2011
- 09:58 AM
- 158 views
What does determinism have in common with gods, the flying spaghetti monster and pink, invisible unicorns?
by Björn Brembs in bjoern.brembs.blog
I usually don't blog about physics. Actually, I don't think I ever have, which is not surprising given that I'm not a physicist. This unusual post was prompted by an ongoing series of encounters with people asking me how I can be so sure that the universe is indeterministic. I'm explicitly writing this as an interested layperson, even though I took elementary quantum mechanics as special subject in high school and was supervised during my PhD by Martin Heisenberg, the youngest son of Werner Heis........ Read more »
Wilson, C., Johansson, G., Pourkabirian, A., Simoen, M., Johansson, J., Duty, T., Nori, F., & Delsing, P. (2011) Observation of the dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit. Nature, 479(7373), 376-379. DOI: 10.1038/nature10561
Brembs, B. (2010) Towards a scientific concept of free will as a biological trait: spontaneous actions and decision-making in invertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278(1707), 930-939. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2325
- November 17, 2011
- 06:49 AM
- 312 views
Do you have the compassion gene? A stranger will know within 20 seconds
by United Academics in United Academics
In a new study, a group of scientists including researchers from UC Berkeley, have found that people who tested high for empathy shared the same DNA linked to promoting social interaction and love.... Read more »
Kogan A, Saslow LR, Impett EA, Oveis C, Keltner D, & Rodrigues Saturn S. (2011) Thin-slicing study of the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene and the evaluation and expression of the prosocial disposition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID: 22084107
- November 14, 2011
- 05:20 AM
- 285 views
Can you spot the fake brain computer interface?
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A team of bogus developers are applying for crowd funding for a project that does not exist. Can you spot the flaws?... Read more »
Damian Cruse, Srivas Chennu, Camille Chatelle, Tristan A Bekinschtein, Davinia Fernández-Espejo, John D Pickard, Steven Laureys, Adrian M Owen. (2011) Bedside detection of awareness in the vegetative state: a cohort study. The Lancet. info:/10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61224-5
Coan, J., & Allen, J. (2004) Frontal EEG asymmetry as a moderator and mediator of emotion. Biological Psychology, 67(1-2), 7-50. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2004.03.002
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