Introduction to Consciousness

Consciousness is not magic! This is my first blog on the study of consciousness, as part of a series of posts planned. I feel very lucky, both to work as a research scientist at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, and to have been given the chance to publish a book on consciousness for a …

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The dilemma of weak neuroimaging papers

Over this week, there has been a striking debate in the blogosphere and on Twitter concerning the flaws in many published neuroimaging studies. This was sparked off on Monday by Dorothy Bishop’s brutal, insightful highlighting of the methodological holes in a paper published in the prominent journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in …

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Introduction to the site and blog

After a busy time of late with a baby daughter to help look after, some demanding academic tasks, and the final revisions of my first book to hand in, I now have a bit of spare time to start the kind of website I’ve been meaning to write for years. You’ll already be able to …

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