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Tuesday, 22 December 2015
Some Interesting Links

This week, I’m offering you my own little holiday present: links on two subjects that we’ve already explored in this blog several times before, simply because they’re so fascinating.

The first link takes you to an annual episode of the Brain Science Podcast in which the episodes posted during the year are reviewed. For example, that year the podcast’s host, Ginger Campbell, discussed brain plasticity with Michael Merzenich, the links between cognition and emotion with Luis Pessoa, sleep with Penny Lewis, consciousness with Michael Graziano, the benefits that physical exercise has for the brain with John Ratey, and mirror neurons with Greg Hickok.

For fans of theories of embodied cognition, the second link below takes you to a seminar on the subject, by Professor Shaun Gallagher. In this presentation, Gallagher summarizes the characteristics of five different theories of embodied cognition: minimalist, biological, semantic, functionalist, and enactive. He describes the main proponents of each of these theories and in some cases includes excerpts from interviews in which they present some examples, most of which are quite enlightening. In short, an innovative approach to an innovative subject!

i_lien Brain Science Podcast Celebrates 8 Years of Neuroscience
a_lien Embodied Cognition by Prof. Shaun Gallagher

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