As published in the last issue of JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) by Irene Tracey (Oxford University) emotions and motivations play an important role in the mechanisms of the perception of pain in the human brain. Using…
Month: November 2006
This is a link to an interview with Rodolfo Llinás conducted by Sérgio Strejilevich in Brain & Mind electronic magazine on Neuroscience: Interview with Rodolfo Llinás. The body of the interview (excerpt from Brain & Mind electronic magazine number 6….
The following systems are based on Baars’ GWT (Global Workspace Theory) and have been developed by University of Memphis Cognitive Computing Research Group: IDA (Intelligent Distribution Agent) addresses the Navy’s problem of job distribution using the Conscious Agent Framework. IDA…
CERA (Conscious and Emotional Reasoning Architecture) is a software architecture that allows the integration of different cognitive components into a single autonomous system. It is designed to be a flexible research framework in which different consciousness and emotion models can…
What do robots dream of? This is the title of a perspective paper published this week in Science written by Christoph Adami. The author argues that robots that create and update internal models of their own structure may be able…
The University of Arizona Center for Consciousness Studies (department of psychology) promote open, rigorous discussion of all phenomena related to consciousn experience. Visit the Center for Consciousness Studies website.
The Australian National University Centre for Consciousness was set up in August 2004 as part of David Chalmers’ ARC Federation Fellowship project. The project statement is as follows: This project aims to develop a research centre that will be a…
The CCRG’s research revolves around the design and implementation of cognitive, sometimes “conscious,” software agents, their computational applications, and their use in cognitive modeling. Visit the CCRG website.
The Mind Science Foundation is dedicated to solving one of the major questions of modern science – The puzzle of human consciousness – by funding leading-edge scientific research and education focused on the mind/brain. Visit the Mind Science Foundation website….
Consciousness and Cognition: An International Journal provides a forum for a natural-science approach to the issues of consciousness, voluntary control, and self. The journal features empirical research (in the form of regular articles and short reports) and theoretical articles. Book…