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A good blog, I find, often asks more questions than it answers. That trend is strong in this month's installment of Encephalon. Enjoy!
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- Before starting her guest blogging stint at Neuroethics & Law, Sasha Davenport revists the subjective experience of punishment.
- Fat men and trolley cars - Tommasso Bruni looks at Joshua Greene's use of fMRI to explore moral dillemmas. How much data do we need before we can make conclusions on substantive ethics? What explains the discrepancy with othe fMRI findings, such as those by the Oxford philosopher, Kahane? More research, it seems, is neeeded.
- To see or not to see? How does information from the senses make its way to the brain? Is there ever a 'real' destination? Often, Mike Lisieski argues, it's impossible to figure out how any behaviour or reaction is produced by a given set of stimuli, because the 'branching effect' is so complex.
- Does overall brain size in amphibians and reptiles increase cognitive ability? Do creatures that successfully 'invade' other habits or ecologies do so because they have bigger brains? Dr Zen at NeuroDojo unravels the complexities and paradoxes of these questions.
- Janet Kwasniak started a series on cognitive embodiment. First up: posture.
- What is Pibloktoq? It's an obscure psychopathology, occuring only in cold, dark places, such as Northern Canada. Romeo Vitelli describes the history of the disorder and how it helps us understand the human mind.
- How do humans experience colour? What would the world look like if we see more of it? Dave Deriso plays with consciousness and colour at The Artful Brain.
