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Cerebroscope
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No comments on CerebroscopePsychologists, neuroscientists and philosophers like to talk of a hypothetical instrument called the ‘cerebroscope‘. The first time I heard about this, in San Diego, I expressed a bit of surprise, and then asked, ‘Why isn’t it called a ‘brainoscope’?” I was expecting to be told that people used ‘cerebroscope’ because it sounded more impressive (always…
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Goat brains
Most amusing question asked at the BA Festival of Science: “Do people who ate goat brains when they were young get schizophrenia?” This was at a panel session of top UK psychologists and neuroscientists. After the laughter died down, one of the panel members volunteered, “I ate goat brains when I was young.” A few…
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The BA Festival of Science
Thanks to a generous grant from Trinity College at Cambridge University, I was able to attend the full week-long British Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Festival of Science in Leicester this year, from September 9th to 13th. This is a brief report of what I learned there.
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Soda Straw Tensegrity Structures
My next shopping list: 15 straws, 60 paper clips and 30 rubber bands. After all, who wouldn’t want to make a tensegrity dodecahedron?
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DeLong and science
Brad DeLong makes an electric motor and worries about kids and science.
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Science Year
I’ve just become a student member of the British Association of Science so that I can attend upcoming the Festival of Science for free. In the newsletter, I’m told that Science Year has been extended to the end of 2003. I’ve never been a fan of grand gestures like ‘Science Year’, partly because I’ve never…
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Armchairs and onions
One of the great things about being in UCSD right now is that I get to go to any classes I want, free of charge (unlike the poor saps who have to pay hundreds of bucks for the privilege – of course, they need course credit…). So at one of the recent cognitive neuroscience classes…
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Rez
Some good news in the lab, amidst all the unending software issues: one of the students may be bringing in Rez tomorrow (the famous self-styled ‘synaesthesia’ computer game) for the interests of ‘research’. Yeah, right. Naturally, I’ll have to demonstrate to the other lab members exactly how much research I’ve done into this important phenomenon…
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Synaesthesia
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People might be wondering what it is that I’m doing in San Diego, beyond my rather nebulous description of ‘research’. Right now I’m working in the research labs of V. S. Ramachandran at the University of California, San Diego Center for Human Information Processing on an experiment to investigate an interesting condition called synaesthesia. Synaesthesia…
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