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The Mystery of Consciousness
How does the wet stuff of the brain and nervous system give rise to the vivid and varied world of our subjective experience?

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Thursday, February 23, 2012

The Master and His Emissary: The Unmaking of Our World - March 12, 2012

We now know that each hemisphere plays a role in everything the brain does: the old dichotomies do not hold.  Most neuroscientists have therefore abandoned the attempt to understand why nature has so carefully segregated the hemispheres – despite a large, and expanding, body of evidence about their differences at every level.

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What Everyday Words Say About Us - April 16, 2012

According to Jamie Pennebaker (The Secret Life of Pronouns, Bloomsbury Press, 2011), the smallest words in our vocabulary say the most about us.

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Computing with Neural Ensembles to Liberate the Brain - September 24, 2012

In this talk Dr. Miguel Nicolelis describes how state-of-the-art research on brain-machine interfaces make it possible for the brains of primates to interact directly and in a bi-directional way with mechanical, computational and virtual devices without any interference of the body muscles or sensory organs.

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Rodolfo Llinas on Consciousness - November 12, 2012

Called the "founding father of brain science," Rodolfo Llinas's research interest encompasses all levels of brain science, from ion channels to cognition.

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Researcher Highlight

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Sean Guillory
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Justin Hulbert
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Aaron Schurger, Ph.D.

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