Neuroanthropology: Funny Depictions of Reactions to Peer Review
Today I was speaking with my graduate students on the basic format of a peer-reviewed paper, and how following that format will help with the inevitable criticisms that come from peer review. I...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: X-Labs: Science Communication Meets A Rock Concert
A fire tornado! Tesla coils playing music! Exploding microwaves! That’s the X-Labs at the University of South Florida, a student initiative to promote science and engineering. Take stage production,...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Andreas Roepstorff on Neuroanthropology
Andreas Roepstorff is one of the leaders of neuroanthropology. A professor in both anthropology and integrative neuroscience at Aarhus, Roepstorff is co-director of the MINDLab there. MINDLab is based...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Introducing Liz Losin, Cultural Neuroscientist
Greg and I are happy to welcome Liz Losin to Neuroanthropology PLOS as a contributor. Liz is a cultural neuroscientist who from the earliest days of her education has sought to bring together...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: The Making of a Cultural Neuroscientist
My name is Liz Losin and I’m a social and cultural neuroscientist. I’m currently a postdoctoral researcher in Tor Wager’s lab at the University of Colorado in Boulder. I’m delighted and honored to be...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Advances in Cultural Neuroscience
A lot of good stuff coming out around cultural neuroscience right now. Here are the three main things up front, so people can have them. Then I’ll go over them in turn. And finally, a reflective...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Who’s afraid of a MOOC?: on being education-y and course-ish
On Thursday, 22 March, the then-Tertiary Education Minister of Australia, Chris Bowen, registered for my new, up-coming MOOC (that’s a Massive Online Open Classroom, if you’ve somehow managed to miss...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Our Inner Voices
A pastiche of a post, putting together ideas and research on inner voices: -How to document the conversations we carry on with ourselves most everyday (in the West at least) -The importance of inner...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Neurocriminology, Meet Human Development
These are two lines of research that will hopefully increasingly merge… Neurocriminologist Adrian Raine’s new book The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime presents a biological approach...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Neuroanthropology on Brain Science Podcast
Ginger Campbell, who runs the great Brain Science Podcast project, was kind enough to feature Greg and myself for her 97th episode. We discussed The Encultured Brain with Ginger for over an hour, and...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: International Cultural Neuroscience Consortium meeting:...
I recently returned from the first meeting of the International Cultural Neuroscience Consortium, hosted by Joan Chiao at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. As a cultural neuroscientist...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Finding Middle Ground on Neuroscience
Led by books like Raymond Tallis’ Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanityand Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld’s recent Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Lisa Barrett: Facing Down Ekman’s Universal Emotions
Boston Magazine has a fantastic profile of the work by psychologist Lisa Barrett that takes on Paul Ekman’s theories of universal emotion types, with corresponding facial expressions. The article is...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Vision in Free Running
I just came across this amazing video of a parkour athlete which illustrates the visual skill needed for free running. There’s also timing, balance, flexibility, and more involved, but by using a...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Great Ape Faces
I just love the individuality of all those faces. Original image found in Yahoo article, Chimp Genetic History Stranger Than Humans’. And for a nice piece on animal subjectivity, see Brandon Keim’s...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Summer Institute on Cultural Neuroscience 2013
By Sarah Mahler Editor: Sarah Mahler is Professor of Anthropology at Florida International University. Daniel discussed her book, Culture as Comfort, here at Neuroanthropology, but you can also learn...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Oxford Biocultural Anthropology Bibliography
Oxford Bibliographies has just published my entry Biocultural Anthropology into their excellent series on Anthropology. The bibliographies are expert guides to the literature, with introductions to...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: The cultures endangered by climate change
By Greg Downey The Bull of Winter weakens In 2003, after decades of working with the Viliui Sakha, indigenous horse and cattle breeders in the Vilyuy River region of northeastern Siberia,...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Anthropology: Growth and Relevance, Not Popularity
Anthropologists can suffer from Jared Diamond envy. Here in the United States we bemoan when Diamond’s latest book rises on the bestseller list. While he might deliver anthropology-lite to the masses,...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Lily White
This is a post about decades of science. This science doesn’t fit the normal template of “science,” of experiments and testable hypotheses and the like. Then again, a lot of research on humans rarely...
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