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mymindonbooks
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forthcoming book: ‘What Should We Do with Our Brain?’
Too bad we’ll have to wait until October to find out What Should We Do with Our Brain? by Catherine Malabou.Product...
 
streetknowledgetv
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US Army Spends $4 Million to Research Telepathy
via Red Ice A team of UC Irvine scientists has been awarded a $4 million grant from the U.S. Army Research Office to study the...
 
mymindonbooks
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“The Other Darwin”: article on evolutionary psychology at The Walrus
The Walrus has a review article on evolutionary psychology, discussing or citing a number of books starting with Darwin’s...
 
<em>linhares.alex</em>
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5x5=25!!!!!
One problem down, N to go.
 
Ron B
Ron B posted a blog entry
Interested in the Cognitive Science of Meditation, Mindfulness, Intelligence and Cognitive Function?
I recently discovered a great blog on ScienceBlogs entitled Developing Intelligence. Produced by University of Colarado at...
 
mymindonbooks
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cognitive psychology books 2008
Awhile ago I posted a list of cognitive science books for 2008, based on a search of Worldcat. The Library of Congress also has...
 
<em>linhares.alex</em>
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Capyblanca is now open source (under GPL)
In 1995, Douglas Hofstadter wrote: "A visit to our Computer Science Department by Dave Slate, one of the programmers of Chess...
 
mymindonbooks
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coming soon: What Is Special About the Human Brain?
What is Special About the Human Brain? (Oxford Portraits in Science) by Richard Passingham has a prospective release date of...
 
mymindonbooks
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recent book - Scenario Visualization: An Evolutionary Account of Creative Problem Solving
Scenario Visualization: An Evolutionary Account of Creative Problem Solving (Bradford Books) by Robert Arp (MIT Press,...
 
<em>davidallencompany</em>
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Why We Like New Things; or why I have to try out every new GTD program.
I’m one of those unfortunate people who loves trying out new software for my GTD system. So far, I’ve always gone...
 
TimFinin
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Act before you think you think
The WSJ has an article, Get Out of Your Own Way, on research suggesting that people have often form intentions to act and make...
 
Pranam Kolari
Pranam Kolari posted a blog entry
Act before you think you think
The WSJ has an article, Get Out of Your Own Way, on research suggesting that people have often form intentions to act and make...
 
mymindonbooks
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“Dance as a way of knowing: interview with Alva Noë” from dance-tech.net
Dance-tech.net has produced this interview with philosopher Alva Noë. If you have any trouble playing the embedded video go...
 
<em>davidallencompany</em>
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Getting Things Done By Getting Others to Do Them For You: the Science of Persuasion
Editor’s Note:  This article which originally appeared in New Scientist was forwarded to my attention by Dr. Lynn...
 
mymindonbooks
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coming soon: ‘Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique’ by Michael S. Gazzaniga
Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique by neuroscientist Michael S. Gazzaniga (Ecco, 2008) has a June 24 release date...
75 days ago my mind on books | Topics: cognitive..., new books
 
mymindonbooks
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Pascal’s wager updated
(On supposed memory boosters): “Eating a dozen almonds may just be my generation’s version of Pascal’s...
 
Ron
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The Internet is Re-Wiring Your Brain
In the latest Atlantic, Nicholas Carr provocatively asks, "Is Google Making us Stupid?" The point he makes is that our new...
 
<em>davidallencompany</em>
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New Book from O’Reilly… Your Brain: the Missing Manual
Just came across this announcement from O’Reilly Media for a book I imagine will be of interest to quite a few GTDtimes...
 
mymindonbooks
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new book: ‘Buying In’ by Rob Walker
Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker (Random House, 2008) is a new book that’s...
 
mymindonbooks
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NYRB: “How the Mind Works: Revelations”
“How the Mind Works: Revelations” by Israel Rosenfield and Edward Ziff (New York Review of Books, v. 55, n. 11,...
 
mymindonbooks
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new book - The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Andrea Moro (MIT...
 
<em>davidallencompany</em>
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Is Executive Function More Important than IQ in Determining Scholastic and Professional Success?
A recent article in Newsweek asks this fascinating question: is EF more important that IQ as a determinant or predictor in...
 
<em>davidallencompany</em>
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GTD Times - Provigil - Would you try it?
Editor’s Note: Smart drugs, also called nootropics are a relatively recent phenomenon for most people. Although some...
 
<em>davidallencompany</em>
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GTD Times - Kluge on Memory
Have you ever been getting ready for work in the morning and find that you have absolutely no idea if you’ve taken your...
 
mymindonbooks
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Cognitive science books 2008
Following is a list of cognitive science books new/forthcoming in 2008, to be added to the list in the sidebar. This selection...
95 days ago my mind on books | Topics: cognitive..., new books, 2008
 
mymindonbooks
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new book: ‘The Probabilistic Mind: Prospects for Bayesian Cognitive Science’
The new book The Probabilistic Mind: Prospects for Bayesian Cognitive Science by Nick Chater and Mike Oaksford (Oxford, 2008)...
 
<em>davidallencompany</em>
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GTD Times - Kluge on Memory
Have you ever been getting ready for work in the morning and find that you have absolutely no idea if you’ve taken your...
 
<em>davidallencompany</em>
davidallencompany posted a blog entry
GTD Times - Kluge and GTD
Editor’s Note: We’ve had an incredible response to my request for contributor’s with a cognitive sciences...
 
DonaldHTaylor
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Itiel Dror workshop - discount for LSG members
If you attended the Learning Technologies Conference in January, you heard Dr Itiel Dror open the second day with: Designing...
 
mymindonbooks
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new book: ‘Mirroring People’
Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others by Marco Iacoboni (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008). Amazon...
 
mymindonbooks
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new book: ‘Midbrain Mutiny’
Midbrain Mutiny: The Picoeconomics and Neuroeconomics of Disordered Gambling: Economic Theory and Cognitive Science (Bradford...
 
mymindonbooks
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My incredible growing brain!
This was my garage sale find from last weekend. I thought a spare brain might come in handy, and it was a bargain at...
 
mybloglog77
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Findings
“To believe in progress does not mean believing that progress has already taken place. This would not be belief.”...
 
mymindonbooks
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Frans de Waal Q & A at Freakonomics
Freakonomics is collecting questions for primatologist Frans de Waal —45 questions have already been posted as I’m...
 
mymindonbooks
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“The neuroscience delusion” - Raymond Tallis at Times Literary Supplement
“Neuroaesthetics is wrong…” says Raymond Tallis in this Times Literary Supplement article (Apr 9,...
 
mymindonbooks
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on ‘Balance: In Search of the Lost Sense’ by Scott McCredie
“Gravity is a harsh mistress” is one of my favorite quotes from The Tick and in Balance: In Search of the Lost...
 
<em>linhares.alex</em>
linhares.alex posted a blog entry
Decision, Intuition & Perception
So here's the presentation I've done in FGV today. Unfortunately, we didn't get it on tape, so no sound. I hope it may...
 
mymindonbooks
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Pete Mandik’s neurosemantics bibliography and Philosophy of Mind MetaResource
Two useful resources recently published by Pete Mandik:Neurosemantics bibliography (a new neuro-term to me,...
 
mymindonbooks
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American Scholar: Brian Boyd on literature, science, patterns
Nabokov scholar Brian Boyd (University of Auckland) in “The Art of Literature and the Science of Literature”...