Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
Couple of good radio shows on philosophy: In Our Time on the history of ‘common sense philosophy’ and The Philosopher’s Zone has a special on the late Richard Rorty.
When do children think wishes can come true? Mixing Memory examines a psychology study that aimed to find out.
Scientific American investigates the neuroscience of irrationality and economic decision-making.
New Hitachi ‘brain-machine interface’ uses infrared light to read brain activity.
Prospect Magazine has a short article on the psychology of suicide bombers.
Experts say video games are not an addiction. Pope still catholic.
Why do we find it harder to recognise faces of other races than our own? Cognitive Daily looks at the influence of experience.
Supporters of ‘child bipolar disorder’ champion write to the Boston Herald with a strong defence of his work.
New Scientist covers a virtual world that can be explored through the power of thought (with video).
Wired looks at some of the revelations about behavioural control studies from recently de-classified CIA documents.
When brain damage helps. Developing Intelligence looks at a study that found that patients with frontal lobe damage actually do better on some reasoning tasks.
If there such a thing as photographic memory? Scientific American ‘asks the expert’.
The excellent NYC radio show RadioLab has a <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/06/08
“>special on Memory and Forgetting, featuring a well-known science blogger.
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