Words Can Change Your Brain (29 page)

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Personality and Social Psychology Review
. 2007 Nov; 11(4):328–63.

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Cerebral Cortex
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Current Biology
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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
. 2010 Oct 18.

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. 2009 Jan; 47(1):169–79.

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PLoS One
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15.
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 “Spoken language and arm gestures are controlled by the same motor control system.” Gentilucci M, Dalla Volta R.
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 Ekman P.
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 “Gesture gives a hand to language and learning: Perspectives from cognitive neuroscience.” Kelly S, Manning S. M., Rodak S.
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 “Communicating emotion: Linking affective prosody and word meaning.” Nygaard L. C., Queen J. S.
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. 2008 Aug; 34(4):1017–30.

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 “Domestic dogs use contextual information and tone of voice when following a human pointing gesture.” Scheider L, Grassmann S, Kaminski J, Tomasello M.
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 “Reduction in tonal discriminations predicts receptive emotion processing deficits in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.” Kantrowitz J. T., Leitman D. I., Lehrfeld J. M., Laukka P, Juslin P. N., Butler P. D., Silipo G, Javitt D. C.
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 “Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness.” Lazar S. W., Kerr C. E., Wasserman R. H., Gray J. R., Greve D. N., Treadway M. T., McGarvey M, Quinn B. T., Dusek J. A., Benson H, Rauch S. L., Moore C. I., Fischl B.
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Chapter 4: The Language of Consciousness
 

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 “Consciousness and neuroscience.” Crick F, Koch C.
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. January 14, 2009.

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 “The global workspace (GW) theory of consciousness and epilepsy.” Bartolomei F, Naccache L.
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. 2011 Jan 1; 24(1):67–74.

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 “Cortical midline structures and the self.” Northoff G, Bermpohl F.
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6.
 “Individual working memory capacity is uniquely correlated with feature-based attention when combined with spatial attention.” Bengson J. J., Mangun G. R.
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. 2011 Jan; 73(1):86–102.

7.
 “Penrose-Hameroff orchestrated objective-reduction proposal for human consciousness is not biologically feasible.” McKemmish L. K., Reimers J. R., McKenzie R. H., Mark A. E., Hush N. S.
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. 2009 Aug; 80(2 Pt 1):021912.

8.
 Watch the excellent video documenting the Princeton University PEAR program exploring how the mind influences objects at a distance: http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/.

9.
 “Compassionate intention as a therapeutic intervention by partners of cancer patients: Effects of distant intention on the patients’ autonomic nervous system.” Radin D, Stone J, Levine E, Eskandarnejad S, Schlitz M, Kozak L, Mandel D, Hayssen G.
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10.
 “Double-blind test of the effects of distant intention on water crystal formation.” Radin D, Hayssen G, Emoto M, Kizu T.
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11.
 “The emergence of human consciousness: From fetal to neonatal life.” Lagercrantz H, Changeux J. P.
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12.
 “The birth of consciousness.” Lagercrantz H.
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14.
 “Epilepsy, consciousness and neurostimulation.” Bagary M.
Behavioral Neurology
. 2011 Jan 1; 24(1):75–81.

15.
 “The development of color categories in two languages: A longitudinal study.” Roberson D, Davidoff J, Davies I. R., Shapiro L. R.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
. 2004 Dec; 133(4):554–71.

16.
 “Color vision: Color categories vary with language after all.” Roberson D, Hanley J. R.
Current Biology
. 2007 Aug 7; 17(15):R605–7. “Color categories: Evidence for the cultural relativity hypothesis.” Roberson D, Davidoff J, Davies I. R., Shapiro L. R.
Cognitive Psychology
. 2005 Jun; 50(4):378–411.

17.
 “Language and perceptual categorization.” Davidoff J.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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18.
 “Neurophysiological mechanisms and consciousness.” Creutzfeldt O. D.
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