PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Older Kids Are More Likely to Confess to Bad Deeds, Scientific American   How the brain stores traumatic images and triggers flashbacks, The Guardian Scientists are finding more genes linked to IQ. This doesn’t mean we can predict intelligence. Vox Illusions influence our predictions about how well we’ll remember in the future, The Conversation  Faces recreated from monkey brain signals, BBC  The Secret to My Success? Antidepressants, The New York Times Opinion  Draper's Genetically Modified Cyborg DragonflEye Takes Flight, IEEE Spectrum  Photo: Draper We Need to Talk About the Power of AI to Manipulate Humans, MIT Technology Review  What Can Comedians Teach Us about Imagination? Scientific American   Cracking The Code That Lets The Brain ID Any Face, Fast, NPR: Shots  NIH scientists try to crack the brain’s memory codes, NIH News An interview with Prof Judy Illes, President of the International Neuroethics Society, Federation of European Neuroscience Societies  Working memory: How you keep things ‘in mind’ over the short term, The Conversation  The psychological reason you love watching online videos that gross you out, Quartz Robots will be more useful if they are made to lack confidence, New Scientist  Scientists improve people's creativity through electrical brain stimulation, Science Daily  Brain Scans May Forecast Autism in Babies, Scientific American  Opioid receptors in brain affect reaction to another person’s pain, SCOPE Blog  The psychological benefits – and trappings – of nostalgia, The Conversation   The cart before the horse: When cognitive neuroscience precedes cognitive neuropsychology, Cognitive Neuropsychology How the brain codes intimacy: The neurobiological substrates of romantic touch, Human Brain Mapping  Active Listening Delays Attentional Disengagement and Saccadic Eye Movements, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review  Human Cortical Neurons in the Anterior Temporal Lobe Reinstate Spiking Activity during Verbal Memory Retrieval, Current Biology  Cued Memory Retrieval Exhibits Reinstatement of High Gamma Power on a Faster Timescale in the Left Temporal Lobe and Prefrontal Cortex, Journal of Neuroscience  Temperature variability is integrated by a spatially embedded decision-making center to break dormancy in Arabidopsis seeds, PNAS  Episodic Tags Enhance Striatal Valuation Signals during Temporal Discounting in Pathological Gamblers, eNeuro

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