PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts.

"PsyArt is an online, peer-reviewed journal featuring articles using a psychological approach to the arts. We provide a rapid publication decision and a large and international readership. The journal is open to any psychology and any art, although PsyArt specializes in psychoanalytic psychology and literature or film."

Neuron : Cortex in Reading :Visual Word Focus Area

"Surgery removed a small portion of word-responsive occipitotemporal cortex overlapping with the word-specific fMRI activation. The patient developed a marked reading deficit, while recognition of other visual categories remained intact. Furthermore, in the post-surgery fMRI map of visual cortex, only word-specific activations disappeared. Altogether, these results provide direct evidence for the causal role of the left occipitotemporal cortex in the recognition of visual words."

V.S. Ramachandran

"...the self is not a holistic property of the entire brain; it arises from the activity of specific sets of interlinked brain circuits..."

Neurotechnology: Growing a Brain

"Researchers opened thousands of rat skulls over the years,
removed their brains, and cut them into thin slices,
which they kept alive."

"Today, researchers are finding evidence that a category of glial cells, termed astrocytes, play an active role in brain function by promoting the activity of neurons."
Image and text copyright © Dennis Kunkel.

"Recent advances in human neuroimaging have shown that it is possible to accurately decode a person's conscious experience based only on non-invasive measurements of their brain activity."

Haynes, J and Rees, G (2006).Decoding mental states from brain activity in humans. Nat Rev Neurosci 7(7):523-34.

In layman's terms: "Mindreading scientists predict behavior"

"Think of the 100 billion times per day humans click on a Web page as a way of teaching the Machine what we think is important. Each time we forge a link between words, we teach it an idea."

Kevin Kelly. We are the Web. Wired. Issue 13.08 - August 2005

"The brain needs no central-control mechanism to direct mental life; interactions within and among networks do the trick."

ICORP

"...forming the mirror neuron system of the humanoid that is the target of implementation."