Tag Archives: neuroscience

Seeing sometimes really is believing

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

The McGurk Effect: “The visual information a person gets from seeing a person speak changes the way they hear the sound.”  The video below demonstrates this illusion with the sound  ’ba’ that becomes heard as ‘fa’ when the movement of … Continue reading →

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Call for Canadian Dementia Strategy

Posted on October 14, 2010 by

    A while back, a Canadian suffering from Alzheimer’s disease became a cause célèbre when it was learned that he had spent 30-days in jail before a bed was found in a long-term care facility.  He landed in jail … Continue reading →

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Parenting: What’s the Father-Child Bond have to do with it?

Posted on September 14, 2010 by

A very interesting post on Dr. Marsha Lucas’s blog, ReWire Your Brain for Love®, caught my eye but because of work on my new business site, Ottawa Family Mediation, I only got around to reading it today.  The blog post … Continue reading →

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Empathy and Humankind

Posted on August 13, 2010 by

According to its website, For over 250 years the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has been a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress.  Our approach is multi-disciplinary, politically independent and combines cutting … Continue reading →

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Mediator Questions or What Mary Knows

Posted on January 23, 2010 by

Last February, I published a post entitled, Where is the mind situated?, that suggested that such a question already presupposes the type of answer that will be given, viz. that the mind is a thing, a substance, with a physical … Continue reading →

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“Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain. . .”

Posted on March 2, 2009 by

“Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness” is the title of a new book by Alva Noë, a philosopher at the University of California at Berkeley, that was published … Continue reading →

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Where is the mind situated?

Posted on February 9, 2009 by

Stephanie West Allen’s Brains on Purpose™ points to an interesting paper, “Philosophical Foundations of Law and Neuroscience” written by two law professors that deals with some problematic premises regarding the relationship of mind to brain. “Here’s an excerpt from the … Continue reading →

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Interdependence

Posted on December 21, 2008 by

“Mind boggling, how interdependent we are.” The human brain takes up 2% of the body’s weight yet requires about 25% of its oxygen. The number of states the brain is capable of at any given moment is 1 followed by … Continue reading →

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“The Political Brain”…

Posted on November 5, 2008 by

…is the title of a book by Drew Westen, professor of psychology at Emory University, that was initially published in 2007.  The book is subtitled “The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation”. Here are some excerpts … Continue reading →

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