koglist May 2003

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Philosophy of Science Colloquium, J a n o s T a n a c s

by Laszlo E. Szabo

Department of HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Eotvos University, Budapest Pazmany P. setany 1/A Budapest Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924 Department's Home Page:http://hps.elte.hu P h i l o s o p h y o f S c i e n c e C o l l o q u i u m Room 6.54 (6th floor) Monday 4:00 PM ____________________________________ 19 May 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 J á n o s T a n á c s Philosophy and History of Science, Technical University of Budapest Jelentésváltozás versus jelentésállandóság a geometria axiómarendszerei közötti átmenetben (Change versus invariance of meaning when switching between different axiomatic systems of geometry) Az előadásban a geometria három, egymással szoros összefüggésben álló axiómarendszerének szemantikai problémáit vizsgálom. A három vizsgált axiómarendszer a Bolyai-féle abszolút geometria (AGB) axiómarendszere, valamint a kiterjesztéseivel kapott euklideszi (EG), illetve Bolyai-Lobacsevszkij-féle hiperbolikus (nemeuklideszi, NEG) geometria axiómarendszerei. A kérdés első lépésben az, hogy vajon a három axiómarendszer formálisan azonos alapfogalmai azonos jelentésűek-e is egyben? Ugyanez a kérdés a definiált fogalmak szintjén is felvethető. Az előadásban két, egymással ellentétes nézőpont rekonstruálásra és konfrontálására teszek kísérletet. Az egyik nézőpont Tóth Imre modellelméleti megfontolásokra alapozott érvelése, amely az alapfogalmak szemantikai invarianciáját képviseli. A másik álláspont értelemszerűen az alapfogalmak szemantikai varianciáját állítja, méghozzá olyan megfontolások alapján, amelyet szemantikai holizmusnak nevezhetünk. Ezt az álláspontot, többek között, David Hilbert neve fémjelzi. Röviden összegzem az axiómák szemantikai felfogásával kapcsolatos Frege-Hilbert vitát; a vita középpontjában az axiómák ?implicit definíciókként" történő felfogása állt. Megmutatom, hogy Hilbert az axiómarendszerekkel összefüggésben, a várakozásokkal ellentétben, nem ?szuperformalista" álláspontot tett magáévá (amely az axiómákat minden jelentést nélkülöző jelek halmazának tekinti), hanem mind elvi síkon, mind konkrétan, választott példáival a szemantikai holizmust, és az alapfogalmak szemantikai varianciáját képviselte. A szemantikai invarianciát, illetve varianciát képviselő álláspontok hátterében álló jelentésfelfogások legfontosabb ismérveinek vázolását követően a definiált fogalmak szintjén előálló problémák vizsgálata felé fordulok. Evert W. Beth és Alfred Tarski definiálhatósággal/definiálhatatlansággal kapcsolatos eredményeit felhasználva a definiált fogalmak szemantikai holizmusa mellett érvelek. Beth és Tarski módszerét elemezve kiderül, hogy az alapfogalmak jelentésének invarianciáját képviselve a definiált fogalmak szintjén a szemantikai varianciát és a definiált fogalmak szemantikai holizmusát kell képviselnünk az axiómarendszerek közötti átmenetben. Ez az alapfogalmak szemantikai invarianciáját képviselő álláspontok, például Tóth Imre álláspontjának inkoherens jellegét mutatja, amely így hátrányba kerül a másikkal szemben: mást képvisel az alapfogalmak, és mást a definiált fogalmak szintjén. ___________________________________ The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we held a 30-60-minute discussion.The participants may comment the talks and initiate discussion on the Internet. The comments should be written in the language of the presentation. The organizer of the colloquium: Laszlo E. Szabo (email: leszabo(a)hps.elte.hu) -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924 Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

22 years, 12 months

Soltis/Signal Functions of Early Infant Crying: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article The Signal Functions of Early Infant Crying by Joseph Soltis http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Soltis-11072002/Referees/ This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates or suggested by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to suggest someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) ======================================================================= ** IMPORTANT ** ======================================================================= To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. (Please note that we only request expertise information in order to simplify the selection process.) Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= The Signal Functions of Early Infant Crying Joseph Soltis National Institutes of Health ABSTRACT: In this article I evaluate recent attempts to illuminate the human infant cry from an evolutionary perspective. Infants are born into an uncertain parenting environment, which can range from indulgent care of offspring to infanticide. Infant cries are in large part adaptations that maintain proximity to and elicit care from caregivers. There is not strong evidence for acoustically distinct cry types, however, but infant cries may function as a graded signal. During pain-induced autonomic nervous system arousal, for example, neural input to the vocal cords increases cry pitch. Caregivers may use this acoustic information, together with other cues, to guide care-giving behavior. Serious pathology, on the other hand, results in chronically and severely abnormal cry acoustics. Such abnormal crying may be a proximate cause of adaptive infant maltreatment, in circumstances in which parents cut their losses and reduce or withdraw investment from infants with low survival chances. An increase in the amount of crying during the first few months of life is a human universal, and excessive crying, or colic, represents the upper end of this normal increase. Potential signal functions of excessive crying include manipulation of parents to acquire additional resources, honest signaling of need, and honest signaling of vigor. Current evidence does not strongly support any of these hypotheses, but the evidence is most consistent with the hypothesis that excessive early infant crying is a signal of vigor that evolved to reduce the risk of a reduction or withdrawal of parental care. KEYWORDS: colic, crying, early infant crying, honest signaling, infanticide, parental care, parent-offspring conflict, separation call, vocalization. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Soltis-11072002/Referees/ ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review. (Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential impact!). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. 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22 years, 12 months

Soltis/Signal Functions of Early Infant Crying: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article The Signal Functions of Early Infant Crying by Joseph Soltis http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Soltis-11072002/Referees/ This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates or suggested by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to suggest someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) ======================================================================= ** IMPORTANT ** ======================================================================= To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. (Please note that we only request expertise information in order to simplify the selection process.) Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= The Signal Functions of Early Infant Crying Joseph Soltis National Institutes of Health ABSTRACT: In this article I evaluate recent attempts to illuminate the human infant cry from an evolutionary perspective. Infants are born into an uncertain parenting environment, which can range from indulgent care of offspring to infanticide. Infant cries are in large part adaptations that maintain proximity to and elicit care from caregivers. There is not strong evidence for acoustically distinct cry types, however, but infant cries may function as a graded signal. During pain-induced autonomic nervous system arousal, for example, neural input to the vocal cords increases cry pitch. Caregivers may use this acoustic information, together with other cues, to guide care-giving behavior. Serious pathology, on the other hand, results in chronically and severely abnormal cry acoustics. Such abnormal crying may be a proximate cause of adaptive infant maltreatment, in circumstances in which parents cut their losses and reduce or withdraw investment from infants with low survival chances. An increase in the amount of crying during the first few months of life is a human universal, and excessive crying, or colic, represents the upper end of this normal increase. Potential signal functions of excessive crying include manipulation of parents to acquire additional resources, honest signaling of need, and honest signaling of vigor. Current evidence does not strongly support any of these hypotheses, but the evidence is most consistent with the hypothesis that excessive early infant crying is a signal of vigor that evolved to reduce the risk of a reduction or withdrawal of parental care. KEYWORDS: colic, crying, early infant crying, honest signaling, infanticide, parental care, parent-offspring conflict, separation call, vocalization. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Soltis-11072002/Referees/ ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review. (Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential impact!). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. 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22 years, 12 months

Philosophy of Science Colloquium, G ü n t h e r F l e c k

by Laszlo E. Szabo

23 years

Meghívó

by Winkler István

Az MTA Pszichológiai Kutatóintézete meghív minden érdeklõdõt Prof. Nelson Cowan (Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri) Measuring working-memory capacity címû elõadására. Hely: MTA Pszichológiai Kutatóintézet elõadóterme Budapest XIII. Victor Hugo u. 18 22, I. emelet Idõpont: 2003. május 22, 14 óra. Minden érdeklõdõt szeretettel várunk. -- ----------Note, phone and fax numbers have changed.------------ Istvan Winkler Mailing address: Institute for Psychology H-1394 Budapest, P.O.B. 398 Hungarian Academy of Sciences Szondy u 83/85, HUNGARY Phone: (36-1) 3542-296 Fax: (36-1) 3542-416 e-mail: winkler(a)cogpsyphy.hu or winkler(a)psych.helsinki.fi

23 years

Falk/Prelinguistic evolution: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article Prelinguistic evolution in early hominins: Whence motherese? by Dean Falk http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Falk/Referees/ This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates or suggested by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to suggest someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) ======================================================================= ** IMPORTANT ** ======================================================================= To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. (Please note that we only request expertise information in order to simplify the selection process.) Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Prelinguistic evolution in early hominins: Whence motherese? Dean Falk Florida State University ABSTRACT: In order to formulate hypotheses about the evolutionary underpinnings that preceded the first glimmerings of language, mother-infant gestural and vocal interactions are compared in chimpanzees and humans and used to model those of early hominins. These data, along with paleoanthropological evidence, suggest that prelinguistic vocal substrates for protolanguage that had prosodic features similar to contemporary 'motherese' evolved as the trend for enlarging brains in late australopithecines/early Homo progressively increased the difficulty of parturition, thus causing a selective shift toward females that gave birth to relatively undeveloped neonates. It is hypothesized that hominin mothers adopted new foraging strategies that entailed maternal silencing, reassuring, and controlling of the behaviors of physically removed infants (i.e., that shared human babies' inability to cling to their mothers' bodies). As mothers increasingly began to use prosodic and gestural markings to encourage juveniles to behave and to follow, the meanings of certain utterances (words) became conventionalized. This hypothesis is based on the premises that hominin mothers that attended vigilantly to infants were strongly selected for, and that such mothers had genetically based potentials for consciously modifying vocalizations and gestures to control infants, both of which receive support from the literature. KEYWORDS: bipedalism; brain size; chimpanzees; foraging; gestures; hominins; infant riding; motherese; prosody; protolanguage http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Falk/Referees/ ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review. (Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential impact!). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. 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23 years

Falk/Prelinguistic evolution: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article Prelinguistic evolution in early hominins: Whence motherese? by Dean Falk http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Falk/Referees/ This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates or suggested by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to suggest someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) ======================================================================= ** IMPORTANT ** ======================================================================= To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. (Please note that we only request expertise information in order to simplify the selection process.) Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Prelinguistic evolution in early hominins: Whence motherese? Dean Falk Florida State University ABSTRACT: In order to formulate hypotheses about the evolutionary underpinnings that preceded the first glimmerings of language, mother-infant gestural and vocal interactions are compared in chimpanzees and humans and used to model those of early hominins. These data, along with paleoanthropological evidence, suggest that prelinguistic vocal substrates for protolanguage that had prosodic features similar to contemporary 'motherese' evolved as the trend for enlarging brains in late australopithecines/early Homo progressively increased the difficulty of parturition, thus causing a selective shift toward females that gave birth to relatively undeveloped neonates. It is hypothesized that hominin mothers adopted new foraging strategies that entailed maternal silencing, reassuring, and controlling of the behaviors of physically removed infants (i.e., that shared human babies' inability to cling to their mothers' bodies). As mothers increasingly began to use prosodic and gestural markings to encourage juveniles to behave and to follow, the meanings of certain utterances (words) became conventionalized. This hypothesis is based on the premises that hominin mothers that attended vigilantly to infants were strongly selected for, and that such mothers had genetically based potentials for consciously modifying vocalizations and gestures to control infants, both of which receive support from the literature. KEYWORDS: bipedalism; brain size; chimpanzees; foraging; gestures; hominins; infant riding; motherese; prosody; protolanguage http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Falk/Referees/ ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review. (Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential impact!). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. 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23 years

News from Science & Consciousness Review: Morin and Clark

by Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy

Science & Consciousness Review (NEW MIRROR: www.sci-con.org) has released new articles and reviews: _______________________ GUEST EDITORIAL Inner speech and conscious experience - by Alain Morin "Imagine that scientists have been successful at designing a drug that freezes brain areas producing our internal monologue. After taking the drug you cant talk to yourself anymore. Every other mental activity is fine, but its now total silence in your head. Not a word. What would happen? What would it be like?" Full text: http://sci-con.org/editorials/20030403.html _______________________ GUEST EDITORIAL Empirical Constraints on the Concept of Consciousness - by Thomas W. Clark "As other commentators on the target article have pointed out, and as Crick and Koch themselves acknowledge, their hypotheses regarding the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) have much in common with the work of other researchers. There now seems to be a well-established research consensus that the NCC are distributed, integrated, and semi-hierarchical, extending across many brain systems subserving various cognitive functions. Consciousness seems to involve neural coalitions, not central executives." Full text: http://sci-con.org/editorials/20030404.html _______________________ LATEST HEADLINES - BOOK: Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness - Changing the recognition of emotional faces - Robot finger has feeling - Compromise is name of the game in how brain works - Review of the Self-Concept See NEWS IN BRIEF at: http://sci-con.org/more_news.html _______________________ PREVIOUS ARTICLES News: Atoms of thought. The microstate hypothesis of conscious states http://sci-con.org/news/articles/20021202.html News: Free consciousness articles And how to find them on the Web http://sci-con.org/news/articles/20021001.html Visit our archives at: http://sci-con.org/archive.html _______________________ MIRROR SITE Science & Consciousness Review can now be found at www.sci-con.org. Soon, we will launch new features and forums for the scientific study of consciousness. Please update your links and preferences. _______________________ SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTION For students, teachers, scientists, and all other fans of consciousness... Send your news summaries to us. See more at: http://sci-con.org/author_instructions.html Sincerely, Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy Managing Editor

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