Entries by Constance Cummings
A Conversation with Karen Nakamura
[This interview is cross-posted at somatosphere.net and the fpr blog.] Science writer Karen A. Frenkel interviews anthropologist Karen Nakamura for the FPR. Karen Nakamura is Associate Professor of Anthropology and East Asian Studies at Yale University. A cultural and visual anthropologist, her research focuses on disability and minority social movements in contemporary Japan. Her ethnography about sign […]
Brain science of the 1950’s: “Small patches of illumination surrounded by an uncharted expanse of darkness”
Here’s the link to Mike Jay’s great review of Suzanne Corkin’s new book “Permanent Present Tense: The Man with No Memory and What He Taught the World.”
Listen to Russell Poldrack on UT’s Neuroscientists Talk Shop
Russell Poldrack of UT Austin talks about cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, and the current focus on connectivity. Here is the link: Russell Poldrack, NTS March 2013
Real time brain activity in hippocampus! (YouTube video via Stanford and knowingneurons.com)
Ziv Y., Burns L.D., Cocker E.D., Hamel E.O., Ghosh K.K., Kitch L.J., Gamal A.E. & Schnitzer M.J. (2013). Long-term dynamics of CA1 hippocampal place codes, Nature Neuroscience, 16 (3) 264-266. DOI: 10.1038/nn.3329