PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

How Our Brains Perceive the Truth, The Guardian   Animals Know When They Are Being Treated Unfairly (and They Don’t Like It), The Conversation As Presidents Live Longer, Doctors Debate Whether To Test For Dementia, NPR The Brain Defense Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America'a Courtrooms, Penguin Random House When Mismatched Voices and Lips Make Your Brain Play Tricks, The New York Times The Fantasy of Connecting Two Spinal Cords, Discover Magazine Robot Companion’s Can-Do Attitude Rubs Off on Children, New Scientist When Neuroethicists Become Labmates, The Neuroethics Blog Hunched Over a Microscope, He Sketched the Secrets of How the Brain Works, The New York Times Earbuds That Give You More Selective Hearing, MIT Technology Review Cocaine Addiction Leads to Buildups of Iron in the Brain, Gizmodo Neural Network Learns to Synthetically Age Faces, and Make Them Look Younger, Too, MIT Technology Review Call for Brain Donors, BBC News Mind-Reading Typing Tool for Paralysed People is Fastest Yet, New Scientist Portable Brain-Scanning Helmet Could Be Future for Rapid Brain Injury Assessments, The Guardian What Causes a ‘Butterflies in the Stomach’ Sensation?, Discover Magazine Language Lessons Start in the Womb, The New York Times Can We Trust the Rorschach Test?, The Guardian How Your MRI Scan Benefits Science, The Guardian   Bayesian Inference and Testing of Group Differences in Brain Networks, Bayesian Analysis Blunted ventral striatal responses to anticipated rewards foreshadow problematic drug use in novelty-seeking adolescents, Nature Communications Sensitivity and specificity of abstraction using gist reasoning measure in adults with traumatic brain injury, Applied Biobehavioral Research Hippocampal awake replay in fear memory retrieval, Nature Neuroscience  High performance communication by people with paralysis using an intracortical brain-computer interface, eLife  Perceptual decisions are biased by the cost to act, eLife

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