PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Last Edition's Most Popular Article(s): Neuroscience and the Law: Don’t Rush In, The New York Review of Books In The Popular Press: Machine Bias, ProPublica A Severed Head, Two Cops, and the Radical Future of Interrogation, WIRED Why IQ Matters More than Grit, Vox News Survival Needs and Growth Attenuation Therapy: Do They Signal a Need for a “Dependency Ethics”?, The Neuroethics Blog Review: In ‘Incognito,’ the Brain Is Dramatic and Mysterious, The New York Times Facebook Plans to Boost Its Translations Using Neural Networks This Year, MIT Technology Review The Hefty Price of ‘Study Drug’ Misuse On College Campuses, The Conversation IQ Can Predict Your Risk of Death, and 8 Other Smart Facts about Intelligence, Vox News How Our Brains Tell the Difference Between Real and Fake, The Guardian There’s No Such Thing as Free Will, The Atlantic The UK Firm That Wants to Give Big Spenders a Big Shock, BBC News Scientists Have Figured Out Exactly How Much Fun it is to Get Drunk, Washington Post New Research Shows Some Adults Who Never Had ADHD as Kids Are Developing it Now, Quartz Want to Lose Weight? Train the Brain, Not the Body, The Conversation Does Memory Reconsolidation Exist?, Discover Magazine Scientists Think You Can Rewire Your Brain Without Taking Drugs or Changing Your Lifestyle, Quartz Neuro Cuisine: Exploring the Science of Flavour – Video, The Guardian Why Do Only Some People Get ‘Skin Orgasms’ From Listening to Music?, The Conversation Algorithms That Learn with Less Data Could Expand AI’s Power, MIT Technology Review A Four-Armed Robot Can Now Improvise Music as Well as Human Bandmates, Quartz Tracking My Tears, Vox News In the Academic Literature: Multimodal Analysis of Cortical Chemoarchitecture and Macroscale Fmri Resting-State Functional Connectivity, Human Brain Mapping Listening to the Calls of the Wild: The Role of Experience in Linking Language and Cognition in Young Infants, Cognition Smile Without Euphoria Induced by Deep Brain Stimulation: A Case Report, Neurocase: The Neural Basis of Cognition Evaluation of Ambiguous Associations in the Amygdala by Learning the Structure of the Environment, Nature Neuroscience

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