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spontaneous behavior
Goal-directed Cognition - Embodied Cognition
I just stumbled across a great article on Boston.com about "Embodied Cognition". It describes how we often perform complex cognitive tasks better if we are allowed to move around. This reminded me a lot of an article cal...[more]
spontaneity   spontaneous behavior   cognition   spontaneous activity   
Posted on Tuesday 12 February 2008 - 07:56:24

On the cover of PLoS One - again
The frontpage of PLoS One is currently featuring links to our study on spontaneous behavior:
plos_cover.jpg

As you can see, this was sparked by a post on boingboing, initiated by one of my students from last term's neuroinformatics cour...[more]
PLoS One   spontaneous behavior   boingboing   media   
Posted on Friday 25 April 2008 - 03:18:14

We got slashdotted!
It appears the media coverage our study on spontaneous fruit fly behavior (updated press release) made it to the cover not only of LiveScience, but also on /.


I've replied to the story and there's already a link from one...[more]
drosophila   free will   spontaneous behavior   flight   slashdot   
Posted on Thursday 17 May 2007 - 03:04:58

Let the onslaught begin
It is done! Our paper on spontaneous activity in Drosophila fruit flies is finally out in PLoS One. Almost 4 years of hard work in the can! Phew!

And the media reports are already starting to pour in:
New Scientist, ...[more]
drosophila   free will   spontaneous behavior   flight   media coverage   
Posted on Wednesday 16 May 2007 - 03:55:54

more media requests
After the last post, I received media queries from the German Berliner Zeitung and from G1, the news website from the Globo Organizations, the largest media conglomerate in Brazil (5th largest in the world).

UPDATE: We no...[more]
drosophila   free will   spontaneous behavior   flight   media   
Posted on Tuesday 15 May 2007 - 02:27:01

media frenzy continues
After spending a good part of the past weekend (actually all of it except the time I needed to play our game this past Sunday and preparing for today's experiments) answering questions from journalists about our upcoming...[more]
drosophila   free will   spontaneous behavior   flight   media   
Posted on Monday 14 May 2007 - 09:08:27

Free will is a popular topic
What surprising effects a press-release can have. Our paper on spontaneous behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila due to appear in PLoS One next week is accompanied by a press-release PLoS sent out just a day or two ago. T...[more]
drosophila   free will   spontaneous behavior   flight   media   
Posted on Friday 11 May 2007 - 19:20:26

We've been boingboinged!
Almost exactly a year after our paper on spontaneous behavior in Drosophila appeard in PLoS One, one of my students from last term's neuroinformatics course, Matthias Winkelmann, suggested it as interesting stuff on ...[more]
boingboing   free will   spontaneous behavior   drosophila   brain   
Posted on Sunday 13 April 2008 - 08:54:24

SPECULATION: free will?? WTF?
Of course, our original study makes no mention of free will, it is not a scientific concept. However, the discovery of spontaneity even in flies makes us ponder what, if anything, this might entail for our subjective exp...[more]
drosophila   free will   spontaneous behavior   flight   
Posted on Thursday 17 May 2007 - 09:38:35

SCIENCE: spontaneous behavior
With all the discussion raging in the blogosphere (see, e.g., slashdot, coturnix, evolution denialism, the futile circle, Nature, etc.), I think I should take one post to emphasize the scientific aspect of our work and ...[more]
drosophila   free will   spontaneous behavior   flight   
Posted on Thursday 17 May 2007 - 08:56:28

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