March 05

5 Web Sites From Intute.Ac.Uk

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Self-efficacy: the exercise of control

http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/effbook1.html

This is a summary of Albert Bandura's book 'Self-efficacy: the exercise of control', which outlines the author's ideas about how self-efficacy affects many aspects of life. The summary is hosted by Emory University in the United States and was produced by Gio Valiante. It should be useful for teachers, students and researchers.

Primer on educational psychology, A

http://www.learnativity.com/edpsych.html

This article, hosted by the US-based website Learnativity.com, provides an overview of educational psychology and the theories that underpin it, including the behaviourist, humanist, cognitive and constructivist viewpoints. The article provides links to further resources. It should be useful for students and teachers.

In Our Time: The infant brain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r2cn4

This is an episode of the BBC Radio Four series 'In Our Time'. In it, the broadcaster Melvyn Bragg discusses our knowledge of the developing infant brain. The psychologists Usha Goswami, Annette Karmiloff-Smith and Denis Mareschal contribute to the discussion, which includes the theories of Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky. The programme is 45 minutes in length and should be useful for students and teachers.

In Our Time: The brain and consciousness

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054582

This is an episode from the BBC Radio Four series 'In Our Time', hosted by Melvyn Bragg, in which the contribution of twentieth century neuroscience to our conceptions of the mind is considered. Joining the discussion are academics Steven Rose and Dan Robinson. The programme is forty five minutes in length and available as a Real Media audio file. It should be useful for students and teachers.

Alcohol: A sober assessment

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/a_sober_assessment/

This article is published by the US-based SEED magazine, a science periodical. The article is written by Dave Munger and concerns the difference between actual and perceived risks in the use of alcohol. It contains links to related resources. The article should be useful for students and teachers

February 06

Mind Science Foundation

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Mind Science Foundation
The Mind Science Foundation is a US-based organisation that aims to promote the study of human consciousness through funding and dissemination. The site includes information about membership and events, such as conferences, as well as links to a database of consciousness researchers, a consciousness 'cyber library', and links to related resources. This site should be useful for students and teachers. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.mindscience.org
October 04

Glossary Of Consciousness

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Glossary of consciousness
This glossary, compiled and maintained by the US-based neuroscientist Christof Koch, provides definitions of terms and expressions used in the academic research of consciousness. The text is adapted from the glossary of 'The Quest for Consciousness', a book written in 2004 and published by Roberts & Company. The glossary maintains an emphasis on vision and visual perception. This site should be useful for students, researchers and teachers. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~koch/
July 22

Science Faction

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Exploring links between neurology and human consciousness via art, culture, technology, music, design, and sciencehttp://sciencefactionnyc.blogspot.com/
August 21

Science & Consciousness Review

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Science & Conciousness Review
is an international forum aimed at bringing together material and links of interest to philosophers of cognitive science or researchers in related fields. ...

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August 15

HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE NOT A ZOMBIE? By Fred Dretske

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I'm not asking whether you know you are not a zombie. Of course you do. I'm asking how you know it. The answer to that question is not so obvious. Indeed, it is hard to see how you can know it. Wittgenstein (1921/1961: 57) didn't think he saw anything that allowed him to infer he saw it. The problem is more serious. There is nothing you are aware of, external or internal, that tells you that, unlike a zombie, you are aware of it. Or, indeed, aware of anything at all...

A paper from NEH Summer Institute on Consciousness and Intentionality: Program and Readings held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from June 24 to August 2, 2002

August 15

Contact : Consciousness In Interaction

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'Contact: consciousness in interaction' is the online hub of a cross-disciplinary international research project, part-funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and is part of the 'Consciousness in a Natural and Cultural Context' programme. Contact seeks to question "the assumption that conscious experience must be explained by the brain by itself, as opposed to the embodied brain in interaction with environments, both natural and social." There is a full outline of the project, and the teams. There are profiles of the six different research teams, and hyperlinks to their respective websites. About 20 full-text draft papers are available for download. There is a diary of the project's conference schedule, and details of opportunities to join the project.
http://linus.media.unisi.it/cirg/contact/

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December 22

Consciousness, Literature And The Arts

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Peer-reviewed electronic journal aims to provide a forum for discussion of the relation of the creative arts and literature to the "exploration of consciousness" in disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science and physics...

http://www.aber.ac.uk/cla/index.html

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