PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Head Transplant Patient Will Use Virtual Reality to Smooth Transition to New Body, Smithsonian Magazine   Stay Optimistic, Live Longer?, The New York Times Strobe Lighting Provides a Flicker of Hope in the Fight Against Alzheimer’s, The Guardian Neuroscientists Use Neurofeedback to Erase Fear in the Brain, The British Psychology Society Research Digest DNA Clue to How Humans Evolved Big Brains, BBC News Is Artificial Intelligence Taking Over Our Lives?, The New York Times AI Winter Isn’t Coming, MIT Technology Review Artificial Intelligence Is More Artificial Than Intelligent, Wired Magazine How Rich Would You Be If You Actually Got a Penny for Every Thought?, Vox News Lazy Coders Are Training Artificial Intelligences to Be Sexist, New Scientist Do Synapses Really Store Memories?, Discover Magazine Robotic Hand Exoskeleton Lets Quadriplegic People Use Cutlery, New Scientist Chimpanzees See Butts Like We See Faces, Discover Magazine Our Brains Record and Remember Things in Exactly the Same Way, New Scientist   Reactivation of Latent Working Memories with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Science Magazine Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Brief Maintenance of Seen and Unseen Sensory Information, Neuron Developmentally Defined Forebrain Circuits Regulate Appetitive and Aversive Olfactory Learning, Nature Neuroscience Unified and Separable Hippocampal Representations of Time and Space, Journal of Neuroscience

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