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Karen O & Willie Nelson - "Under Pressure" (Queen & David Bowie Cover)
Queen and David Bowie's "Under Pressure" is one of rock's greatest duets. My colleague Tom Breihan recently explored its glory at length, and now we all get to hear the latest reinterpretation of that glory by a pair of music legends. Yeah Yeah...
Man’s Halloween decor so gruesome cops are called several times
Death-themed Halloween decor — think skeletons, zombies and tombstones — is tame enough for schools and theme parks, but one man’s yard display is so horrifying that passers-by have called police several times.
What Political Polarization Looks Like in the Brain
Liberal and conservative brains respond differently to political messages, a new study finds.
Can lab-grown brains become conscious?
A handful of experiments are raising questions about whether clumps of cells and disembodied brains could be sentient, and how scientists would know if they were.
Study: Heightened susceptibility to misinformation linked to reduced mask wearing and social distancing
People with a poor understanding of quantitative information are more likely to endorse myths about COVID-19 and those who believe such misinformation are ...
Behavioral, physiological, and neural signatures of surprise during naturalistic sports viewing
Surprise signals a discrepancy between past and current beliefs. It is theorized to be linked to affective experiences, the creation of particularly resilient memories, and segmentation of the flow of experience into discrete perceived events....
Intravenous self-administration of delta-9-THC in adolescent rats produces long-lasting alterations in behavior and receptor protein expression
Initial exposure to cannabinoids, including Δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), often occurs during adolescence. Considerable neurodevelopmental alterations occur throughout adolescence, and the environmental insult posed by exogenous cannabinoid...
Danny Dyer: Eton Politicians Are Unfit to Run the Country
It's not the first time the actor has voiced his anti-Tory politics.
Hallucinations and Strong Priors - PubMed
Hallucinations, perceptions in the absence of objectively identifiable stimuli, illustrate the constructive nature of perception. Here, we highlight the role of prior beliefs as a critical elicitor of hallucinations. Recent empirical work from...
Phil Corlett
We (Guillermo, @aldersonday @PaulPcf22, myself and others) hypothesized something like this here
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Anomalous Perceptions and Beliefs Are Associated With Shifts Toward Different Types of Prior Knowledge in Perceptual Inference
Abstract. Psychotic phenomena manifest in healthy and clinical populations as complex patterns of aberrant perceptions (hallucinations) and tenacious, irration
Phil Corlett
For example - @PaulPcf22 work on prior weighting - strong going with hallucinations and weaker with delusions: academic.oup.com/schizophreniab… - these hierarchical differences are present in Guillermo and Co resting data
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Distinct hierarchical alterations of intrinsic neural timescales account for different manifestations of psychosis
fMRI evidence for distinct hierarchical alterations in intrinsic neural timescales for different positive symptoms of schizophrenia support hierarchical perceptual-inference models of psychosis and suggest local increases in excitation-inhibition...
The Psychiatrist Who Believed People Could Tell the Future
After a national disaster, a British doctor began collecting foreboding visions. Soon, they closed in on him.
Moral Uncertainty - Oxford Scholarship
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Sex Cult Leader, Facing Life Sentence, Regrets Nothing
Several victims are expected to testify when Keith Raniere, the founder of Nxivm, is sentenced this week for sex trafficking, extortion and other crimes.
How to Live With Dying - The American Scholar
Before I could accept mortality, I had to stop running from it
Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Theory of Mind and Executive Functions
(2020). Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Theory of Mind and Executive Functions. Journal of Cognition and Development. Ahead of Print.