Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
The Holy Grail of memory: researchers identify brain waves that distinguish false memories from real ones. The downside, you need to have your skull opened and electrodes implanted into your brain. Full paper: pdf.
ABC Radio has science teacher Dr Berry Billingsley discussing her life with Harry, her nine-year-old son who has Asperger’s syndrome.
PsyBlog tackles a bizarre but charming experiment on tickling.
The NYT reviews Sacks’s new book Musicophilia.
Brain Dynamics Underlying the Nonlinear Threshold for Access to Consciousness. Rooaaarrrr!! Hardcore consciousness research in PLoS Biology.
Wired go inside the world’s only plant-intelligence lab. [Roll your own George Bush joke here].
Video of some of the most fundamental (and smallest) aspects of learning in the brain are captured on video and explained by Pure Pedantry.
A couple on fear:
* Neurophilosophy examines the neurobiology of fear.
* That Nearly Scared Me to Death! Let’s Do It Again. Wired looks at why we can enjoy being frightened.
Salon discusses what psychology tells us about our seemingly inbuilt prejudices and how to overcome them.
A cool new visual illusion is discovered by Mixing Memory.
Can you use your ‘gut instinct‘ to find things faster? Cognitive Daily investigates and sports the spiffy new ‘blogging on peer review research’ icon.
Eric Schwitzgebel has a short, sweet and endearingly appropriate epitaph for a philosopher.
Mind Hacks 