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The Passions of Christof Koch

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The Passions of Christof Koch

Previous articles

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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Phi – A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul

January 18, 2012

In the end, consciousness is all that matters! So writes Giulio Tononi, the author of this stunningly original scientific fantasy, …

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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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