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Comment on An Official, Albeit Superfluous, Notice by XiXiDu

XiXiDu — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:00:52 +0000

Comment on The Conservative Media Bias by Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:28:57 +0000

Where was the conservative bias in Chris Matthew’s “thrill up my leg” when he sees Obama speak? Where was the conservative bias when Evan Thomas called Obama God? Where is the conservative bias in most news organizations’ refusal to cover repeated communists in the Obama administration?

Comment on Modeling Control Without Controlling the Model by Deus Ex Macchiato » Controlling complex systems

Deus Ex Macchiato » Controlling complex systems — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:25:26 +0000

[...] an entirely different context, a rather useful metaphor for what happens when you get the rules of the system right: attempts at [...]

Comment on The Neural Basis of Multitasking by Health Highlights – September 8th, 2009 | Highlight HEALTH

Health Highlights – September 8th, 2009 | Highlight HEALTH — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:20:35 +0000

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Comment on The Neural Basis of Multitasking by Acupuncture: The better the study, the worse the result [Cognitive Daily] « iThinkEducation.net!

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:55:08 +0000

[...] the other other hand, dlPFC discusses some research that effectively uses regular old fMRI to show why we have so much trouble multitasking, and even suggests how we might be able to learn [...]

Comment on The Neural Basis of Multitasking by ResearchBlogging.org News » Blog Archive » Editor’s Selections: fMRI bad, fMRI better, fMRI useful… and star-nosed moles!

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:22:23 +0000

Comment on What Shape Will the Neuro Revolution Take? by Andrew Mansfield

Andrew Mansfield — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:45:17 +0000

Excellent perspective and summary. We are facing an interesting challenge in the Law and Neuroscience Project that runs somewhat counter to the position that neuroscience will simply be absorbed, as a perspective or worldview, into other disciplines. Currently, the law adopts the fundamental framework of the human being based on what we might call the “folk psychological” model. Stephen Morse, for example, argues that this model is likely to remain unchallenged by any findings in neuroscience. The model asks only whether a criminal defendant is capable of “practical reason.” It is possible that the American legal system will radically change based on neuroscience, but this would involve a complete toppling of the American legal system. Almost no doctrine in criminal law would survive. Lawyers and judges will oppose any such transition, even well after the public has generally transitioned.

This indicates to me that certain disciplines will simply ignore or continue to operate without a fundamental change based on neuroscience. How do we work to change such conservative disciplines? Should we? What should we replace law with if based on neuroscience?

Comment on The Neural Basis of Multitasking by Twitter Trackbacks for The Neural Basis of Multitasking « dlPFC [dlpfc.wordpress.com] on Topsy.com

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:55:22 +0000

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Comment on The Neural Basis of Multitasking by Michael

Michael — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:22:08 +0000

Hey Kristen,

Here’s a link to the abstract of the study mentioned in that press release:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/08/21/0903620106.abstract

Unfortunately it’s not an open-access article. I haven’t read the paper yet, but let me get back to you on my thoughts about possible neural mechanisms.

Comment on The Neural Basis of Multitasking by Kristen

Kristen — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:19:34 +0000

Another news grabbing study out of Stanford (I can only link to the press release.. I don’t know if they’ve published. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/august24/multitask-research-study-082409.html

It looks like the people who do a lot of multitasking do poorly on memory and attention measures (worse than people who aren’t heavy multitaskers.

I like the way the study you discuss is able to get down to such a fine-grain level, I wonder if there are neural explanations for these findings?

Comment on What Shape Will the Neuro Revolution Take? by The Neural Basis of Multitasking « dlPFC

The Neural Basis of Multitasking « dlPFC — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:41:09 +0000

[...] could be valuable. An interesting application of this research, on the neurotechnology horizon, would be using real-time fMRI to train people to multitask and let them directly “see” [...]

Comment on What Shape Will the Neuro Revolution Take? by Will Neuroscience drastically transform our society? « Potential Random Actions

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:22:40 +0000

[...] Neuroscience drastically transform our society? By dianafrank I just read Michaels post, where he reviewed the book, The Neuro Revoultion, by Zack Lynch. I only read the introduction [...]

Comment on What Shape Will the Neuro Revolution Take? by dianafrank

dianafrank — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:08:45 +0000

I agree that neuroscience will definitely become ubiquitous soon, most likely within the next 10 years. That is to say that textbooks for every academic subject will necessarily include at least one chapter devoted to the subject’s relationship with its neural basis and/or the corresponding neurotechnology.
Currently, I am applying to Graduate school for Neuroscience. Every single program I have looked at is interdisciplinary, with most neuroscience depts collaborating with, on average, 5-10 depts. That is actually one of the reasons why searching for a neuroscience program is difficult. There are so many subsets and each one is specific to the personal interests of the dept faculty.
However, I feel that the more widespread neuroscience becomes, the more subsets will be covered in each graduate program-and necessarily for collaborating depts.
Your article piqued my interest, and spurred a whole digression on the subject at my blog about the potential for the misuse of neurotechnology. Thank you for your post-I now intend on getting The Neuro Revolution.

Comment on Could Neuroscience Be the New Apollo? by What Shape Will the Neuro Revolution Take? « dlPFC

What Shape Will the Neuro Revolution Take? « dlPFC — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:21:59 +0000

[...] is not to say that I don’t think neuroscience will inform economics, law, or even warfare. Clearly, I do. But, precisely because I believe the revolution is going to be so thorough and fruitful, [...]

Comment on TRB: “Irrational” Behavior and the Ventral Striatum by Brain Research on the Margins « dlPFC

Brain Research on the Margins « dlPFC — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:18:35 +0000

[...] a circuit including the striatum is involved in decision-making is well established (and see here and here for other research drawing on that knowledge), but this study begins to bring into focus [...]

Comment on Health Care and Our Limited Moral Intuitions by Bill Parkyn

Bill Parkyn — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:37:02 +0000

This so-called ‘reform’ has no ‘moral case’ because it’s merely a government takeover in disguise. Sly one-word lies don’t cut it any more. Advocates for further expanding the biggest kleptocracy in human history should stay away from the word ‘moral’.

Everything wrong with ‘health care’ today is the government’s fault, in numerous ways:

1. Outlawing interstate health insurance.
2. Larding up unwanted mandates and forbidding catastrophy-only policies.
3. Refusing tax deductability for individual health expenses.
4. Refusing to rein in the trial lawyers and their ruinous tort attacks.
5. Medicare’s scandalous underpayments and its 100,000 pages of stultifying regulations.
6. FDA’s outrageous delays of vital cures and it’s wanton destruction of patent rights.
7. Forcing emergency rooms to give free care (and counting wets as part of that phony statistic of ‘45 million uninsured’.)

The only ‘moral case’ is to end these highly immoral, statist interventions. Health care is no more a ‘right’ than is food or shelter. (If it was then doctors would have to be slaves, along with farmers and landlords.) Government should stick to governing and get out of business, particularly the businesses of retirement, charity, and medical services.

Tell Ted Kennedy to try out the Govt health care on an Indian reservation, let alone in wretched England. He’d been left to die.

The only reason they’re in such a damn hurry to pass yet another 1000-page bloated monstrosity is to keep people from seeing it.
Oops. Too late. It’s been posted.

Comment on Could Neuroscience Be the New Apollo? by Modeling Control Without Controlling the Model « dlPFC

Modeling Control Without Controlling the Model « dlPFC — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:46:52 +0000

[...] components of the complete physical explanation for the human experience. To stretch my Apollo metaphor from last week perhaps near its breaking point, it might be fair to say that the field is [...]

Comment on Modeling Control Without Controlling the Model by Computers at work? Tickling rats? If this is science, I like it! [Cognitive Daily] « iThinkEducation.net!

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:18:19 +0000

[...] the entire human brain actually be modeled with a computer? This fascinating blog post discusses a recent innovation clearing one major hurdle of that daunting [...]

Comment on Modeling Control Without Controlling the Model by ResearchBlogging.org News » Blog Archive » Editor’s Selections: Computer games at work? Tickling rats? If this is science, I like it!

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:08:43 +0000

[...] the entire human brain actually be modeled with a computer? This fascinating blog post discusses a recent innovation clearing one major hurdle of that daunting [...]

Comment on Angels and Demons by Breanna

Breanna — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:48:48 +0000

Michael,

Do you think that people mostly behave in ways that are accepted & displayed by others in the environment as the person progresses through their life, especially when young.

Maybe in some cases lying can just become a habit behavior. Habits can be performed without conscious effort or moral reasoning.