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Brains In Love and Brains Alone: The Social Neuroscience of Stephanie Cacioppo
One would think that there is no aspect of the brain’s multitudinous biochemical majesty that lies outside of the interest of...
Dale DeBakcsy
Feb 14, 2024
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Beyond Nature Vs. Nurture: Marian Cleeves Diamond and Leda Cosmides
In 1964, two publications announced the beginning of two roads out of the centuries-long quagmire represented by the Nature Versus...
Dale DeBakcsy
Aug 21, 2023
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Signs: Ursula Bellugi and the Neuroscience of Language.
Sign Language is a grammarless series of bluntly defined iconic hand gestures. Until William Stokoe (1919-2000) published his...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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Dealing: Dr. Iris Mauss and the Science of Emotion Regulation.
"Well Dale, we, the universe, hate to break it to you, but your desk is on fire, your copy of Thor 337 was lost in the mail, you've been...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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Making Working Memory Work: The Multidisciplinary Neuroscience of Patricia Goldman-Rakic
You’re a monkey, and somebody in a white lab coat has shown you a location where a delicious, ever-so-nummy, bit of banana has been...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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Christine Ladd-Franklin and the Color Wars of the Late Nineteenth Century.
Color is among the most familiar of our sensations, and at the same time also one of the most foreign. Whereas any child can tell you...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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Generations: The Neuroscience Dynasty of Cécile and Marthe Vogt
“There was a tunnel, and at the end a beautiful light, and I heard the voices of my family calling to me.” For centuries this, the...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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Building a Kingdom in the Brain’s Unfashionable District: Brenda Milner’s Century of Neuropsychology
There are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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