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Toward a cognitive science of smell: Reconsidering "higher" cognition from the perspective of a "lower" sense
Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary research paradigm that emerged after WWII and that studies the mind at psychological, computational and neurobiological levels of analysis.
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Archaeology of a Hungry Mind
Why and how did we (Homo sapiens) evolve into a species that is dependent on its ‘brains’ rather than its ‘brawn’ for our survival and successful spread across the globe?
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Cannon’s cats and Freud’s dream metaphor insight carry the keys to much human thought (and action)
Sigmund Freud in 1899, reported that the dream metaphor often provides the key to understanding the psychological origin of emotional distress (‘neurosis’), and Walter Cannon in 1915 elucidated the body’s response to emotional stress in cats, called the ‘fight or flight response’.
