In Search of Memory

"In Search of Memory" by Eric R. Kandel, winner of the Nobel prize.

a well written summary of neuroscience... with focus on memory.
and his life experience and wisdom.

i should have read this book earlier...
then it could have changed my research and even my life.

this is a must read to engineering or science students...

Bees can recognize faces?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/science/02bees.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y

They say bees can recognize human faces... Can you believe it? :)

I am not sure about it, but as Dr. Forsyth said, we definitely have to have animal studies

on face recognition research. That's for sure.

- H. Choi

mirror neurons and motor theory

"Thus, to this point, whereas the exact nature of the link between speech production and perception remains to be discovered, existing evidence strongly indicates that perceptual systems have a much stronger influence on production than motor systems have on perception."

"We conclude that, rather than providing support for MT, mirror neurons are actually inconsistent with MT and are unlikely to have a central role in speech perception."

from A. J. Lotto, G. S. Hickok and L. L. Holt, "Reflections on mirror neurons and speech perception," Trends in Cognitive Sciences Vol.13 No.3, 2009. pp 110-114. 

so, how about other perception tasks rather than speech? 

still motor theory is attractive for perception at least to me, and mirror neuron theory seems like a bridge between motor theory and perception. 

- H. Choi

Uncertainty and Perception

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle says when we observe something, our observation disturbs it. (It sounds weird.) 

Neuroscientists say the object exists only while we are observing it. (It is also weird.) 

So~ what do you say? :) 

Apr. 09, 2008

- H. Choi