Nice guy. He was the kind of guy who always remembered your name and a detail about you from a previous conversation. MIT obit
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There was a segment titled “There’s No More Single Tasking”
Watch it here (archived):
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Miller Lab alumnus Melissa Warden wins NYSCF Robertson Neuroscience Award. Melissa is now a professor at Cornell. Congrats, Melissa!
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The New Yorker reviews Sue Corkin’s book about H.M., the famous neurological patient who could not form new memories.
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Adam Gazzaley continues to ride his media wave by making music with the brain oscillations of Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart.
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Adam Gazzaley and company show, for the first time, that training on a video game results in benefits that transfer to other tests of cognition. Training on the NeuroRacer game produced long-lasting improvements in cognitive abilities of older adults (age 65-80). How did they do it? Their trick was to focus on multitasking and attention.
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An article in MIT’s Technology Review magazine about our work on how multitasking “mixed selectivity” neurons may be key for cognition.
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Eyewitness testimony is shockingly unreliable. How unreliable? Ask Elizabeth Loftus.
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Bursting the Neuro-Utopian Bubble
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/bursting-the-neuro-utopian-bubble/?smid=fb-share&_r=0Where do you begin to correct this guy?
1. Neuroscience is ignoring and usurping the treatment of mental illness by the traditional methods of “talking and working with one another to the end of personal self-realization and social harmony”.
Umm, that doesn’t work very well. So, this is a plus in my book.2. The solution to curing disease is to erase all poverty?
Let’s assume that’s true (it’s not). How do we do that?
This reminds me of the Monty Python sketch How To Do It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNfGyIW7aHM3. Freud? Seriously?
That’s enough time wasted on this.
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A review in Science of Sue Corkin’s book on the famous neuropsychology patient H.M., who could no longer form memories after his hippocampus was removed.
Permanent Present Tense The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H.M. by Suzanne Corkin Basic Books, New York, 2013. 400 pp. $28.99, C$32. ISBN 9780465031597. Allen Lane, London. £20. ISBN 9781846142710.