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Corpus Callosum, TheThe Corpus Callosum is an occasional journal of armchair musings, by an Ann Arbor reality-based, slightly-left-of-center regular guy who reserves the right to be highly irregular at times. |
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EncephalosThis is a blog related to neurosciences and bioinformatics along with the implementation of computers in the process of learning, evolving and neurointegrating… |
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Tongue Vision- research on sensory substitution and brain plasticityThis blog describes the research I am conducting in the context of my Ph.D. at Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada. My research forcuses on brain plasticity, sensory substitution and navigation in the context of blindness. |
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Recent Blog Posts
Mirror neurons and Autism
on Dec 14, 2006 in NeuroScience It has been lately shown that mirror neurons deficiency is related to autism. This is an interesting development. Mirror neurons are traditionally accepted as responsible for mirroring actions, i.e.: If you see a person eat with a spoon, you will imm...
For our basal left friends (green) a bit of history on brain study
on Jan 10, 2007 in neuroscience history brain History of the brainFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe history of the brain details the development of thoughts, speculations, and ideas as to the function of the central nervous system, over the last five-thousand years.Early views on the func...
Neuroscience of atrocity
on Feb 13, 2007 in neuroscience psychology violence war politics That's right, it's Valentine's Day and this is a post about war, violence and genocide! Oh dear...This afternoon there was an interesting interdisciplinary workshop in Exeter University's history department, focusing on the nature of atrocity from hi...
Neurobiology of intelligence
on Feb 17, 2007 in neuroscience psychology ethics intelligence Not exactly hot off the press, but here's an interesting review article on neuroscientific insights into intelligence (Gray & Thompson, 2004, Nat Rev Neurosci, 5, 1-13). The authors focus on fluid intelligence (Gf), which is moderately correlated wit...
Savants and Synthesia
on Mar 1, 2007 in NeuroScience I’ve hemi-neglected this blog for too long, but now that exams are over, maybe I’ll have more time to post. Sunil wrote A very nice post about Savants and Synthesia. We tend to see perception as something that is unisensual, meaning we pe...