Unconscious Cognition

When Epilepsy Surgery Offers the Chance of a Cure (New York Times)

30 Jun 2008

Dr. Joseph Madsen is a neurosurgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the director of the epilepsy surgery program at Children’s Hospital in Boston. His research interests include improved mapping of memory and other higher brain functions to help make epilepsy surgeries safer.

So You Think You Can Dance?: PET Scans Reveal Your Brain's Inner Choreography [Scientific American Magazine] (Scientific American)

16 Jun 2008

So natural is our capacity for rhythm that most of us take it for granted: when we hear music, we tap our feet to the beat or rock and sway, often unaware that we are even moving. But this instinct is, for all intents and purposes, an evolutionary novelty among humans. Nothing comparable occurs in other mammals nor probably elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Our talent for unconscious entrainment ...