Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
Picture This? Some Just Can’t. The New York Times covers a new study on people without visual imagery – that science writer Carl Zimmer helped discover.
New Republic on how the Romans understood hallucinations. “They did not have a single concept of ‘hallucination’ until very late on”.
Science of the pornocalypse. Aeon has an excellent piece that looks at the evidence for benefits and harms of pornography.
Pacific Stand has an important piece on copy number variant genetic mutations and intellectual disabilities.
Neuroscience and Politics: Do Not Hold Your Breath. Good critical piece in E-International Relations on how neuroscience is being used and abused to understand political views.
The Guardian has a reflective piece on inter-generational fathering and child psychology.
There’s a good piece over at Neurocritic about one of the many mouse studies spun by the media in folk psychology terms.
Mind Hacks 