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The lack of side effects of an ineffective treatment facilitates the development of a belief in its effectiveness. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Some alternative medicines enjoy widespread use, and in certain situations are preferred over conventional, validated treatments in spite of the fact that they fail to prove effective when tested scientifically.
Fernando Blanco +2 more
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, 1997 Stove's article, 'So you think you are a Darwinian?'[ 1] was essentially an advertisement for his book, Darwinian Fairytales.[ 2] The central argument of the book is that Darwin's theory, in both Darwin's and recent sociobiological versions, asserts many
Franklin, James
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The direct perception hypothesis: perceiving the intention of another’s action hinders its precise imitation [PDF]
, 2014 We argue that imitation is a learning response to unintelligible actions, especially to social conventions. Various strands of evidence are converging on this conclusion, but further progress has been hampered by an outdated theory of perceptual ...
Froese, Tom, Leavens, David A
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Proprioceptive body illusions modulate the visual perception of reaching distance. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The neurobiology of reaching has been extensively studied in human and non-human primates. However, the mechanisms that allow a subject to decide-without engaging in explicit action-whether an object is reachable are not fully understood.
Agustin Petroni +2 more
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Free will and paranormal beliefs
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Free will is one of the fundamental aspects of human cognition. In the context of cognitive neuroscience, various experiments on time perception, sensorimotor coordination, and agency suggest the possibility that it is a robust illusion (a feeling ...
Ken eMogi
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Aging into perceptual control: A Dynamic Causal Modeling for fMRI study of bistable perception
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016 Aging is accompanied by stereotyped changes in functional brain activations, for example a cortical shift in activity patterns from posterior to anterior regions is one hallmark revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of aging cognition.
Ehsan eDowlati +3 more
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Exploring Causal Influences [PDF]
, 2005 Recent data mining techniques exploit patterns of statistical independence in multivariate data to make conjectures about cause/effect relationships. These relationships can be used to construct causal graphs, which are sometimes represented by weighted ...
Guan, Qingjuan +4 more
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Royal Society Open ScienceCausal illusions consist of believing that there is a causal relationship between events that are actually unrelated. This bias is associated with pseudoscience, stereotypes and other unjustified beliefs.
Naroa Martínez +3 more
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Skeptical Notes on a Physics of Passage [PDF]
, 2014 This paper investigates the mathematical representation of time in physics. In existing theories time is represented by the real numbers, hence their formal properties represent properties of time: these are surveyed. The central question of the paper is
Huggett, Nick
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How quantum brain biology can rescue conscious free will
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2012 Conscious ‘free will’ is problematic because 1) brain mechanisms causing consciousness are unknown, 2) measurable brain activity correlating with conscious perception apparently occurs too late for real-time conscious response, consciousness thus being ...
Stuart eHameroff
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