Archive for the ‘CogNeuro’ Category
Cedrus Lumina Serial Emulator
The scanner at UCSB is always busy, leaving precious little time to get in and test your new experiment. You could stay late or come in during the weekend to get a turn on the magnet, or you can debug your experiment at your desk with a response emulator. This page on the prefrontal.org wiki […]
The Emergence of Collaborative Brain Function
It doesn’t take a neuroimaging study to see that adolescents are in a state of flux. It is the time in our lives that takes us from having the mind and body of a child to possessing the full mental and physical faculties of a young adult. In terms of cognitive ability it is during […]
Quote of the Week – Rousseau
“We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being and born a man.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
Good Science vs Public Awareness (Iacoboni)
In cognitive neuroscience debates are usually quite subdued and people rarely, if ever, point fingers negatively. However, in the last 24 hours there has been a rather dramatic reversal of this norm in a debate that has carried on for several years now: whether Marco Iacoboni and his collaborators overstep the bounds of good science […]
Brain Art: AAL Patchwork
This is a rendering done in Slicer of the numerous brain regions defined in the Automated Anatomical Labeling (AAL) digital brain atlas. The AAL atlas was constructed through the identification of major and minor sulci on a T1 MRI with subsequent labeling based on anatomical location. It doesn’t have any relationship to cortical cytoarchitecture, but […]
The minds of robots
The Sage Center sponsored a talk this afternoon by Daniela Rus entitled “Do Robots Have a Mind?”. Dr. Rus is a Professor at MIT in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department. She is also a Co-Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Center for Robotics (CSAIL). Her talk focused mostly on […]
Dissertation: Thesis Online
Most of my dissertation experiments will hopefully have a future in peer-reviewed neuroscience journals. The bad news is that it will take a few years to rewrite each experiment and get it out the door. If you are curious about internal state information processing or want to know more about interoceptive development I thought I […]
Determinants of Free Decisions
I recently went over “Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain” for a presentation during our weekly lab meeting. The article’s first author is Chun Siong Soon, who is an old friend from time he spent at Dartmouth several years ago. I also saw the senior author, John-Dylan Haynes, present the research at […]
Representation of envy?
Aldo Rustichini , Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota, gave an interesting talk at the Sage Center yesterday titled, simply, “Envy”. He argued that envy is the social equivalent of regret and that each plays a pivotal role in decision making. He defined regret as discovering that an alternate outcome would have led […]
Dissertation: Defense Video
Have you ever sat there and thought how your life would be much more complete if you could just learn more about interoceptive development? Well my friends, worry no more. By watching this video of my dissertation defense presentation you too can know far more about this amazing topic. Title: “The Integration of Higher Cognition […]