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The Passions of Christof Koch

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The Passions of Christof Koch

Category Archives: SciAm column

My regular column for Scientific American Mind

The Brain of Buddha

May 1, 2013

My encounter with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the scientific study of meditation in a Tibetan Monastery in India, …

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A Tribute to Oliver Sacks from Colleague and Friend Christof Koch

November 1, 2012

Oliver Sacks has left the world. The British-born neurologist-cum-writer who called New York City his home for the past half …

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A Biological Imitation Game

September 1, 2012

The digital reconstruction of a slice of rat somatosensory cortex in 2015 in Cell from the Blue Brain Project provides …

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Lust and the Turing Test

July 1, 2012

By and large, we watch movies to be entertained, not to be provoked into deep thought. Occasionally, a film does …

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How the Computer Beat the Go Master

May 1, 2012

As a leading go player falls to a machine, artificial intelligence takes a decisive step on the road to overtaking …

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Panpsychism

March 1, 2012

Panpsychism, the ancient doctrine that consciousness is ubiquitous, offers some lessons in how to think about subjective experience today. Published …

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Movies in the cortical theater

January 1, 2012

Functional MRI can peer inside your brain and watch you watching a YouTube clip. [PDF]

Sex and Violence

July 1, 2011

Using optical and genetic techniques, neuroscientists have identified an “on/off” switch for aggression in the brain. [PDF]

Fatal Attraction

May 1, 2011

Some protozoa infect the brain of their host, shaping its behavior in ways most suited to the pathogen, even if …

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Think different

January 1, 2011

The ways in which brains differ from one another shows up in the way their owners perceive the world. [PDF]

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