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| Goal-directed Cognition - Embodied Cognition |
| I just stumbled across a great article on Boston.com about "Embodied Cognition". It describes how we often perform complex cognitive tasks better if we are allowed to move around. This reminded me a lot of an article cal...[more] |
| spontaneity spontaneous behavior cognition spontaneous activity |
| Posted on Tuesday 12 February 2008 - 13:56:24 |
| The importance of being active |
| Yesterday, I put up the HTML version of my latest publication on brembs.net, an invited review for a special issue in the Journal of Neurogenetics, commemorating the retirement of my thesis advisor Martin Heisenberg. The...[more] |
| spontaneity paper brembs.net |
| Posted on Thursday 08 January 2009 - 17:11:43 |
| New on brembs.net: spontaneity |
| I gave the entire 'spontaneity' section a revamp. It's now just a short text providing some general background linking together the three publications concerning the ability of all animals to generate spontaneous behavio...[more] |
| spontaneity spontaneous behavior spontaneous activity free will actions responses active brembs.net |
| Posted on Sunday 17 April 2011 - 12:49:17 |
| ...and now for some not so random video on the science of spontaneity |
| This is talk 11 (of 31) at the Conference on Brain Network Dynamics held at the University of California at Berkeley on January 26-27, 2007. Speaker is Marcus E. Raichle, Departments of Radiology, Neurology, and Anatomy ...[more] |
| spontaneous brain activity spontaneity brain fMRI |
| Posted on Friday 11 January 2008 - 10:26:39 |
| ...and now for the default mode network |
| Here two excellent videos that go very well with my short thought experiment article at The Scientist: ...[more] |
| default mode network spontaneity Raichle |
| Posted on Sunday 06 February 2011 - 09:39:38 |
| Programming Free Will: creative robots |
 I wasn't planning to comment on Kerri Smith's piece on Free Will (probably paywalled) in the last issue of Nature magazine. However, this morning I read a paper on Free Will in robots (or rather 'agents'), which urged me...[more] |
| free will spontaneity robots briegel |
| Posted on Tuesday 13 September 2011 - 14:38:05 |
| The will and its freedom: biological evidence from invertebrates |
| A few weeks ago, Lars Chittka invited me to write an article "about free will in insects" for a Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences) Special Feature on 'Information processing in miniature brains' th...[more] |
| free will spontaneity behavior invertebrates proceedings heisenberg doyle |
| Posted on Friday 23 July 2010 - 16:53:45 |
| Draft of article on free will online |
| After much to little time spent writing, a first draft of the article for the Proceedings of the Royal Society is online. There was no way to get this article in the sort of shape I had initially planned, but given the d...[more] |
| free will spontaneity behavior invertebrates proceedings |
| Posted on Thursday 26 August 2010 - 07:42:12 |
| Spontaneous activity in the isolated leech nervous system |
| As reported earlier, I've now been working for a couple of days in Bill Kristan's lab at UCSD in La Jolla, California. The first few days I was practicing the dissection of the leech nervous system. I need to take the en...[more] |
| leech Kristan spontaneity experiments behavior isolated nervous system video |
| Posted on Sunday 29 August 2010 - 20:22:23 |
| Towards a scientific concept of free will |
| Today, the Royal Society published my article reviewing the invertebrate data supporting a scientific concept of free will. In it, I first reiterate that the metaphysical concept of free will is long dead (since the 197...[more] |
| free will decision-making spontaneity spontaneous activity invertebrates |
| Posted on Wednesday 15 December 2010 - 20:35:28 |
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