My MA Thesis: The Body in Action: Intention, Action-Consciousness, & Compulsion
Presenting, my masters thesis. Hope someone out there enjoys it. View this document on Scribd
View ArticleSnorkeling ’the shallows’: what’s the cognitive trade-off in internet behavior?
I am quite eager to comment on the recent explosion of e-commentary regarding Nicolas Carr’s new book. Bloggers have already done an excellent job summarizing the response to Carr’s argument. Further,...
View ArticleGoogle Wave for Scholarly Co-authorship: excerpt from Neuroplasticity and...
Gary Williams and I are working together on a paper investigating the consciousness and neuroplasticity. We’re using Google wave for this collaboration, and I must say it is an excellent co-authorship...
View ArticleThe 2011 Mind & Life Summer Research Institute: Are Monks Better at...
As I’m sitting in the JFK airport waiting for my flight to Iceland, I can’t help but let my mind wander over the curious events of this year’s summer research institute (SRI). The Mind & Life...
View ArticleHow to tell the difference between embodied cognition and everything else
Psychscientists have a great post up proposing an acid test for genuine embodied cognition versus the all to popular “x body part alters y internal process” trope. Seriously- check it out!...
View ArticleMind-wandering and metacognition: variation between internal and external...
Yesterday I published my first paper on mind-wandering and metacognition, with Jonny Smallwood, Antoine Lutz, and collaborators. This was a fun project for me as I spent much of my PhD exhaustively...
View ArticlefMRI study of Shamans tripping out to phat drumbeats
Every now and then, i’m browsing RSS on the tube commute and come across a study that makes me laugh out loud. This of course results in me receiving lots of ‘tuts’ from my co-commuters. Anyhow, the...
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