Roger mentions some studies involving children and their ability to "intuit, predict or adjust to likely the behavior of others." This raises an issue that I...
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JuGreer@...
Jun 2, 2000 4:46 pm
A minor, off-topic quibble: ... the emotional expressions or responses of the child. Neither for that matter do live performances on stages with footlights, as...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Jun 2, 2000 3:19 pm
How The Brain Fills In Gaps In What Eyes See Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered how the brain helps us see and interact with objects by...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Jun 2, 2000 3:19 pm
June 2, 2000 MUSIC ON THE BRAIN from Time magazine It's hard to exaggerate the effect music can have on the human brain. A mere snippet of song from the past...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Jun 2, 2000 3:19 pm
June 2, 2000 CELERA GAINS IN DECODING THE GENOME OF THE MOUSE from The New York Times With the outcome of the race to decode the human genome expected to be ...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Jun 2, 2000 2:02 pm
Since the merger with Onelist the search facilities at egroups seem to have been improved greatly, with the result that it's far easier to find relevant ...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Jun 2, 2000 12:25 pm
An old report (1997) has just caught my eye: PSYCHIATRIC NEWS Darwin's Work Enriched by Bipolar Disorder, Says Report A retrospective analysis of genius...
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Rennie, Steve ...
s.rennie@...
Jun 2, 2000 11:58 am
Sorry Roger, but I think we are still talking past each other. I accept that children have not received a very large proportion of their socialisation by...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Jun 2, 2000 11:57 am
From last week's Times Higher Education Supplement - Textbook Guide Patel, K. (2000). The battle over biology. Times Higher Education Supplement - Textbook...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Jun 2, 2000 11:57 am
From last week's Times Higher Education Supplement http://www.thesis.co.uk/ Draxler, A. (2000). Suspicious minds [letter]. Times Higher Education Supplement,...
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isa
786isa@...
Jun 2, 2000 11:56 am
... I would like to inquire about another change which has occurred during this same time period. My understanding is that prior to WWII, virtually the whole ...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Jun 2, 2000 10:27 am
This new title from Steven and Hilary Rose is scheduled for release in July (UK) and October (US). Although there are no details on the Amazon sites I ...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Jun 2, 2000 7:34 am
Volume 355, Number 9219 3 June 2000 Time trends in biological fertility in Britain Lancet 2000; 355: 1961 - 1965 Download PDF (82 Kb) Michael Joffe Department...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Jun 2, 2000 7:30 am
BBC NEWS Thursday, 1 June, 2000, 23:34 GMT 00:34 UK 'No fertility crisis' despite sperm decline In spite of the falling quality of British sperm, couples'...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Jun 2, 2000 7:30 am
Volume 288, Number 5471 Issue of 2 Jun 2000, pp. 1656 - 1660 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/288/5471/1656 The Prefrontal Cortex: Response...
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Jordan Hughes
neuroquest@...
Jun 2, 2000 7:09 am
As moderator of the email discussion group "Consciousness@egroups.com," I wish to extend an invitation to subscribe to the list. Although the list is fairly ...
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Glenn King
gking@...
Jun 2, 2000 7:09 am
... This is the kind of glib misinterpretation that usually comes from cultural determinists. To suggest an evolutionary connection between video games and...
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roger.d.masters@...
Jun 2, 2000 7:06 am
Rennie's reply to my posting indicates that it is harder than one might think to "get across" some things about the integration of emotion and cognition in...
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Jay R. Feierman, M.D.
jrfeier@...
Jun 1, 2000 10:13 pm
John, I agree that it is not possible to accurately quantify the percent of information (information = that which is necessary to make decisions) humans send...
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H. John Caulfield
hjc@...
Jun 1, 2000 7:20 pm
This seems to me good and important work, but remarks such as the one in the subject line detract from it. Why do people write such nonsense? How can we...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Jun 1, 2000 7:18 pm
June 1, 2000 MEMORY'S MIRROR IS A LITTLE SMUDGED from The Chicago Tribune Time's tendency to warp how adults recall their youth is so commonplace that many...
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Rennie, Steve ...
s.rennie@...
Jun 1, 2000 7:17 pm
Despite the apparent intensity of his feelings, I feel I am missing something in Roger's mailing. Certainly, TV, books, comics, films, computer/video games do...
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Aleks Jakulin
aleks.jakulin@...
Jun 1, 2000 7:16 pm
... Patent law is not really mass market (although there have been several games about defending a case in court), but there have been quite successful games...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Jun 1, 2000 10:45 am
An old item from the TIME archive still of interest: TIME Magazine August 28, 1995 Volume 146, No. 9 COVER THE EVOLUTION OF DESPAIR A new field of science...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Jun 1, 2000 10:44 am
NEW STATESMAN The New Statesman Essay - The Pangean catastrophe Chris Lavers Monday 29th May 2000 Millions of years ago, disaster hit Earth, killing 95 per...
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Keith Sutherland
keith@...
Jun 1, 2000 10:35 am
In message <4.3.2.7.2.20000531160317.00a81970@...>, Herbert Gintis <hgintis@...> writes ... The book version will be on display at...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Jun 1, 2000 8:35 am
From New Scientist magazine, 03 June 2000 Dan'l Danehy-Oakes's comments on Debora MacKenzie's creationism article betray a deep misunderstanding of the...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Jun 1, 2000 8:32 am
FOR RELEASE: 31 MAY 2000 AT 19:00 ET US University of California, San Francisco http://www.ucsf.edu/ UCSF researchers find evidence of faulty DNA repair in...
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Ian Pitchford
ian.pitchford@...
Jun 1, 2000 8:28 am
The New England Journal of Medicine -- June 1, 2000 -- Vol. 342, No. 22 Proteins, Enzymes, Genes: The Interplay of Chemistry and Biology By Joseph S. Fruton....
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roger.d.masters@...
Jun 1, 2000 8:19 am
THIS IS (I BELIEVE) TOTALLY MISLEADING. LIKE TV, COMPUTER/VIDEO GAMES DO *NOT* REACT TO THE EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIONS AND RESPONSES OF THE CHILD. AFTER 20...
