PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological St…

PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts.

“PsyArt is an online, peer-reviewed journal featuring articles using a psychological approach to the arts. We provide a rapid publication decision and a large and international readership. The journal is open to any psychology and any art, although PsyArt specializes in psychoanalytic psychology and literature or film.”

Neuron : Cortex in Reading :Visual Word Focus Area…

Neuron : Cortex in Reading :Visual Word Focus Area

“Surgery removed a small portion of word-responsive occipitotemporal cortex overlapping with the word-specific fMRI activation. The patient developed a marked reading deficit, while recognition of other visual categories remained intact. Furthermore, in the post-surgery fMRI map of visual cortex, only word-specific activations disappeared. Altogether, these results provide direct evidence for the causal role of the left occipitotemporal cortex in the recognition of visual words.”

V.S. Ramachandran "…the self is not a holistic…

V.S. Ramachandran

“…the self is not a holistic property of the entire brain; it arises from the activity of specific sets of interlinked brain circuits…”

Neurotechnology: Growing a Brain "Researchers ope…

Neurotechnology: Growing a Brain

“Researchers opened thousands of rat skulls over the years,
removed their brains, and cut them into thin slices,
which they kept alive.”

"Today, researchers are finding evidence that a ca…

“Today, researchers are finding evidence that a category of glial cells, termed astrocytes, play an active role in brain function by promoting the activity of neurons.”
Image and text copyright © Dennis Kunkel.

"Recent advances in human neuroimaging have shown …

“Recent advances in human neuroimaging have shown that it is possible to accurately decode a person’s conscious experience based only on non-invasive measurements of their brain activity.”

Haynes, J and Rees, G (2006).Decoding mental states from brain activity in humans. Nat Rev Neurosci 7(7):523-34.

In layman’s terms: “Mindreading scientists predict behavior”

"Think of the 100 billion times per day humans cli…

“Think of the 100 billion times per day humans click on a Web page as a way of teaching the Machine what we think is important. Each time we forge a link between words, we teach it an idea.”

Kevin Kelly. We are the Web. Wired. Issue 13.08 – August 2005

"The brain needs no central-control mechanism to …

“The brain needs no central-control mechanism to direct mental life; interactions within and among networks do the trick.”

ICORP "…forming the mirror neuron system of the…

ICORP

“…forming the mirror neuron system of the humanoid that is the target of implementation.”