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Talking to ourselves: the science of the little voice in your head | Peter Moseley | Sc... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ad-hearing-voices-inner-speech

inner speech Vygotsky talking ourselves voice head

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  • Daniel Barber on 27 Aug 15
     
    Article about the internalisation of "external", out-loud speech
Daniel Barber

So my mushy head is 'hardwired' for girly things, is it? If this is science, I am Richa... - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...-stereotypes-male-female-brain

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shared by Daniel Barber on 05 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • I am a girl whose mushy head is "hardwired" for girly things.
  • neuroscience is actually a mass of disciplines: neurology, physiology, psychology, molecular biology and genetics, all of them ramped up by new ways of imaging the brain
  • The interaction between the hemispheres is what counts, but this is less marketable stuff.
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  • All of them confirm what we already know, not what we could know.
  • brain scans are still blunt intruments
  • very clever doctors were more than happy to talk about what they did not know about the brain.
  • quasi-religious status
  • "neurosexism"
  • The truth is our brains are much more similar than they are different. That's not a headline you will ever read, is it? "Men and women: much the same!"
  • Daniel Barber on 05 Dec 13
     
    Suzanne Moore argues vociforously against the recent overblown news that men and women's brains are wired differently.
Daniel Barber

Is there a tape recorder in your head? How the brain stores and retrieves musical melod... - 1 views

journal.frontiersin.org/...full

tape recorder musical embodied cognition

shared by Daniel Barber on 12 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Daniel Barber on 12 Sep 14
     
    Fascinating synthesis of research about musical memory with analogies with technology (tape recorders, etc). Embodied cognition, too, as auditory pathways seem to have been coopted from motor coordination. Musical recording = temporal event recorded in spacial way.
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