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Consciousness In The Brain
You see, but you do not observe… A Scandal in Bohemia, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle Can neuroscience provide an explanation as to how the brain enables us to consciously...
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How delusions occur, and why they may be widespread!
Why do many people believe that Crop Circles are created by alien life forms? It is a common occurrence to come across people who believe things that seem extraordinary, and who maintain that belief...
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Food for the brain: How diet affects mental health
Is a diet of junk food bad for your mental health? In a recent article published in the Guardian (originally available on his personal website) George Monbiot looked at recent scientific evidence...
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Neuroscientists Make Declaration On Animal Consciousness
Scientists have officially acknowledged that birds have consciousness, and can experience emotions. On 7/7/2012 a group of prominent neuroscientists signed a declaration supporting the view that...
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Spooky goings on in Psychology!
Given that it is Halloween, it seems only right to discuss some recent psychology experiments relating to potential paranormal phenomenon! Can ‘psychic’ abilities be demonstrated during controlled...
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A matter of inheritance
Image courtesy of ‘Digital Dreams’ / FreeDigitalPhotos.net The age-old ‘nature-nurture’ debate revolves around understanding to what extent various traits within a population are determined by...
View ArticleWant to lie convincingly? Get practicing!
Lying, the deliberate attempt to mislead someone, is a processes that we all engage in at some time or another. Indeed research has found that the average person lies at least once a day, suggesting...
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The painful truth: Magnetic bracelets, the placebo effect & analgesia
Despite the widespread availability of evidence-based medicine in the western world, ‘alternative medicines’ are still commonly used. Such medicines are usually inspired by pre-scientific medical...
View ArticleSome sense in sensory deprivation
How would you cope if you couldn’t hear, see or feel anything? How do sensory systems react when they have no information to process? Such questions may seem rather bizarre, but they are in fact the...
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Hearing what you expect to hear.
Can you spot the error?Most of us have had the experience of finding a glaring error in some written work that we had previously checked several times. For example when blogging I often find at least...
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