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Digitalization and privacy

Senior lecturer Oskar MacGregor has gone on something of a media blitz this summer on the topic of digitalization of personal information and its impact on privacy, from – in particular – an ethical perspective. On 2 July, Oskar held a presentation at Almedalen in Visby, Gotland – Sweden’s largest annual gathering of politicians, media, […]

Publications over summer

Four new publications to add to the list! Our professor, Antti Revonsuo, has a new monograph coming in 2018 with the scholarly publisher Routledge, Foundations of Consciousness. According to the blurb, the book “provides an essential introduction to the scientific and philosophical approaches to consciousness for students in psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and philosophy.” An […]

Article on visual awareness

A team of researchers including Antti Revonsuo has published an article in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience with the title “Different Electrophysiological Correlates of Visual Awareness for Detection and Identification.” In short, the article looks at the electrophysiological differences between conscious detection and conscious higher-level identification of visual stimuli.

New alumnus publication

A team of researchers including Björn Persson, a BSc- and MSc-alumnus and frequent collaborator with our department, has published an article entitled “Testing construct independence in the Short Dark Triad using Item Response Theory” in Personality and Individual Differences. Briefly, the article investigates the constructs involved in one of the more widely-used short-form Dark Triad […]