PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Deceptive robots hint at machine self-awareness, NewScientist In the Popular Press:   Monkeys see selves in mirror, open a barrel of questions, Wired Science Nobel-winning brain researcher retracts two papers, Nature News Disability by Design?, Neuroethics at the Core Social savvy boosts the collective intelligence of groups, Science Neanderthals were able to 'develop their own tools', BBC News Right or Left? Brain Stimulation Can Change Which Hand You Favor, Science Daily Brain-hacking art: Getting your wires crossed, New Scientist Morality and Political Psychology: A Guest Post, The Thoughtful Animal To be punished or not to be punished? This is the neuroethical problem (Andrea Lavazza and Mario De Caro), Neuroethics & Law Blog From the Academic Literature: Visual fixations and the computation and comparison of value in simple choice, Nature Neuroscience SOX9 induces and maintains neural stem cells, Nature Neuroscience Animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders, Nature Neuroscience A closer look at choice, Nature Neuroscience A Dynamic Neural Field Model of Mesoscopic Cortical Activity Captured with Voltage-Sensitive Dye Imaging, PLoS Computational Biology Risky Decisions and Their Consequences: Neural Processing by Boys with Antisocial Substance Disorder, PLoS One The different performance among motor tasks during the increasing current intensity of deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus in rats with different degrees of the unilateral striatal lesion, Neuroscience Letters Predicting consumer behavior with Web search, PNAS Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior through effects on harm aversion, PNAS I fear for you: A role for serotonin in moral behavior, PNAS Cooling the Thermal Grill Illusion through Self-Touch, Current Biology Phantom limb after stroke: An underreported phenomenon, Cortex The neural correlates of intertemporal decision-making, Human Brain Mapping   Greater neural pattern similarity across repetitions is associated with better memory, Science Evidence for a collective intelligence factor in the performance of human groups, Science

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