PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)

Humans Have Way Less Agency Than We Think. Be Grateful For the Illusion, Quartz   Understanding the Neuroscience and Philosophy of Consciousness, Bill of Health, Harvard Law How Science Saved Me from Pretending to Love Wine, The New Yorker “It is Sometimes a Sad Life, and it is a Long Life:” Artificial Intelligence and Mind Uploading in World of Tomorrow, The Neuroethics Blog The Touch of Madness, Pacific Standard An Inner Look into the Minds and Brains of People with OCD, Scientific American ‘But You Can’t Do That!’ Why Immoral Actions Seem Impossible, Aeon If You’re Not a White Male, Artificial Intelligence’s Use in Healthcare Could Be Dangerous, Quartz The Real Reason Some People Become Addicted to Drugs, The Conversation In or Out – How Brain Activity Can Predict Your Vote on Brexit, The British Psychological Society - Research Digest What Machines Can't Do, Iai Player Book Review: “Into the Gray Zone” by Adrian Owen, Bill of Health, Harvard Law What Songbirds Could Teach Us About Constructive Tweeting, Aeon Center for Neuroscience and Society Visiting Scholars, University of Pennsylvania     Switch to Standard View The Neuroscience of Socioeconomic Status: Correlates, Causes, and Consequences, Neuron Graphic Violence as Moral Motivator: The Effects of Graphically Violent Content in News, Mass Communication and Society Spontaneous Reoccurrence of “Scooping”, a Wild Tool-Use Behaviour, in Naïve Chimpanzees, PeerJ Bottlenose Dolphins That Forage with Artisanal Fishermen Whistle Differently, Ethology The Rewarding Nature of Social Contact, Science Magazine Intermittent Stimulation of the Nucleus Basalis of Meynert Improves Working Memory in Adult Monkeys, Science Magazine Should a Few Null Findings Falsify Prefrontal Theories of Conscious Perception?, Journal of Neuroscience

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