From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat Apr 05 2003 - 11:32:43 MST
Some fun papers I just happened upon while doing serious work. They
should be accessible to everyone since Neuropsychologia is complimentary
in ScienceDirect (Oh, how I love thee! Thou seductress of limitless
scientific papers!):
Delusions of alien control in the normal brain
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0D-47YH2P0-1&_user=10&_handle=W-WA-A-A-WZ-MsSAYVA-UUW-AUVEZECBEC-ZYVWEUEUU-WZ-U&_fmt=summary&_coverDate=12%2F31%2F2003&_rdoc=19&_orig=browse&_srch=%23toc%234860%232003%23999589991%23408056!&_cdi=4860&vision=0&_userid=10&md5=cd7460ec6d7017ffec2ef16638da20a2
Conscious perception of brain states: mental strategies for
brain-computer communication
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0D-47RB020-H&_user=10&_handle=W-WA-A-A-WZ-MsSAYVA-UUW-AUVEZECBEC-ZYVWEUEUU-WZ-U&_fmt=summary&_coverDate=12%2F31%2F2003&_rdoc=16&_orig=browse&_srch=%23toc%234860%232003%23999589991%23408056!&_cdi=4860&vision=0&_userid=10&md5=d508ceeaf18bcad6efffac0277cf8c48
The first paper used hypnosis to make people feel like somebody else was
controlling their actions (a common symptom of schizophrenia), and then
used a PET scanner to see how their brains were activated.
The second paper deals with how people using biofeedback to control a
computer become aware of their own brain processes and how they try to
control them.
Hmm, found some more:
An 8-year longitudinal study of mirror self-recognition in chimpanzees
(Pan troglodytes)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0D-475JXJK-2&_user=10&_handle=W-WA-A-A-AZ-MsSAYWW-UUW-AUVEZUCCAV-CYWBYAAWB-AZ-U&_fmt=summary&_coverDate=12%2F31%2F2003&_rdoc=13&_orig=browse&_srch=%23toc%234860%232003%23999589997%23366869!&_cdi=4860&vision=0&_userid=10&md5=e63366e1848aa4921631c791f3b5b71a
Apparently not all chimpanzees can recognize themselves in mirrors
(often taken as a sign of self-awareness), and this study also suggests
that recognition goes down as they grow older.
Beauty in a smile: the role of medial orbitofrontal cortex in facial
attractiveness
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0D-475RDJY-2&_user=10&_handle=W-WA-A-A-AZ-MsSAYWW-UUW-AUVEZUCCAV-CYWBYAAWB-AZ-U&_fmt=summary&_coverDate=12%2F31%2F2003&_rdoc=5&_orig=browse&_srch=%23toc%234860%232003%23999589997%23366869!&_cdi=4860&vieion=0&_userid=10&md5=fa33b850bfd5ae16f1352d22617fff73
Neural correlates of feeling sympathy
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0D-4783HCR-1&_user=10&_handle=W-WA-A-A-AZ-MsSAYWW-UUW-AUVEZUCCAV-CYWBYAAWB-AZ-U&_fmt=summary&_coverDate=12%2F31%2F2003&_rdoc=3&_orig=browse&_srch=%23toc%234860%232003%23999589997%23366869!&_cdi=4860&vieion=0&_userid=10&md5=19ef54e662cbe091321fae221155f227
A bit of social-emotional neuroscience. Sympathy seems to involve both
the affective brain systems and the motor systems that are activated
both by our own and by others' actions.
Neurophysiological correlates of memory for experienced and imagined
events
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0D-475JXJK-4&_user=10&_handle=W-WA-A-A-AZ-MsSAYWW-UUW-AUVEDUUUWB-ZYVBBEYVD-AZ-U&_fmt=summary&_coverDate=12%2F31%2F2003&_rdoc=10&_orig=browse&_srch=%23toc%234860%232003%23999589996%23366313!&_cdi=4860&vision=0&_userid=10&md5=dd24b8b71c8b3c8ccee6d68cc244fb54
Some more details for building truth machines. Look out for people using
their frontal lobes too much when they tell you stories!
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