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Similar and dissimilar others

We just had our weekly journal club discussing: Mitchell, J.P., Macrae, C.N., & Banaji, M.R. (2006) Dissociable Medial Prefrontal Contributions to Judgments of Similar and Dissimilar Others, Neuron50, 655-663 It's a moderately neat scanning study that purports to show different neural mechanisms for making judgments
26 Sep 2006
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Mmm, a baby! He looks good enough to eat!

Talking to a Finn in Canada about a friend's new born baby, she reminded me of an off-colour joke i used to make about new born babies: - How much did it weigh? - 7 pounds! - Mmm, that's about 4 hours at gas mark 5!
13 Aug 2004
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Feeling the presence of God

Just watched BBC2 Horizon program "God on the Brain".  First half was all about how temporal lobe epilepsy can lead to religious visions & experiences. They had the eminent (but hard to spell) neuropsychologist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran descirbing how it is notable that various religious figures had symptoms
17 Apr 2003 1 min read
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