Scientists actually read our articles
I just realized that my article "Are there unconscious perceptual processes?" is among the 25 most downloaded Consciousness and Cognition articles in 2011. So it seems that scientists actually read our...
View ArticlePromotion and First Book
I recently received two pieces of good news. I got the promotion to full professor and my first book Transient Truths is out with Oxford University Press.
View ArticleEvolution in Biology, the Human Sciences and the Humanities, St. Louis April...
I am really looking forward to this conference here in St. Louis, particularly Patricia Churchland's talk on Saturday April 28.
View ArticlePoetry Slam
This was one of the syn team's contributions to the poetry slam night at Tucson, 2012The rave of all conferences (Tucson 2012)Sitting in the audience, sweating, ice waterin our hands, sweatingboiled...
View ArticleMan becomes genius after head injury
Nightline did a feature on our case study, JP, who has acquired synesthesia and savant syndrome video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player
View ArticleEncyclopedia Entry on Color Synesthesia
I just posted a draft of my encyclopedia entry on color synesthesia. The link is here. Feel free to send comments.
View ArticleSynesthesia Joke
A grapheme-color synesthete asked a non-synesthete: "What color is your 'P'?". The other person puzzled said "Yellow?" (Thanks to Lidell Simpson and Carol Steen)
View ArticleNew Synesthesia Lab Site
Check out our new synesthesia lab site, which Kristian Marlow created. Feel free to click the "like" button on the site :-)
View ArticleNew Synesthesia Blog
Our synesthesia lab has started a new blog on synesthesia. It will feature stories and news from our lab and hopefully from other synesthesia researchers around the world. Kristian Marlow has just...
View ArticleNew Research Center in Edinburgh
The Department of Philosophy in Edinburgh just announced the launch of a new research center called Eidyn: The Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity. This center will specialize in...
View ArticleMore Bad News for Women in Academia
The New York Times, Sept. 24, 2012, has a blurb reporting on a finding in science about this, entitled: Bias Persists for Women of Science, a Study Finds *HT: Claus Emmeche)
View ArticleCollege Drop-Out Becomes Accidental Genius
Our paper on a savant with acquired synesthesia is now out.
View ArticleNew Psychology Today blog
I am contributing to a Psychology Today blog, The Superhuman Mind, which may be of interest to you. The first post is up.
View ArticleChange Blindness
See if you can identify the change in this picture. This one is a bit harder.
View ArticleNews Posts on the Brain and Superhuman Abilities
We have posted a couple of new posts to our blog on superhuman ability over at Psychology Today
View ArticleFormal Epistemology Course Next Semester
Some of you have requested the course description for the formal epistemology course I am teaching next semester. So I am posting it here.Formal EpistemologyThis course is an upper-level graduate...
View ArticleSpecial Issue of Philosophical Studies on High-Level Properties in Perception
My special issue of Philosophical Studies on high-level properties in perception will be out in the next issue of the journal. It includes contributions by Jennifer Matey, Heather Logue, Ophelia DeRoy,...
View Article'Seem' and Seemings
A rough draft of my paper "A semantic account of 'seem' and seemings" is available here. Feel free to email me your comments.
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