Marc Egeth

Marc Egeth, Ph.D.

Contents

1 Selected paper - if you read just one
2 Human factors
3 Perception
4 Consciousness
5 Evolution
6 Etc.
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Selected paper - if you read just one

What if we fed mosquitoes from artificial feeders so that a) they wouldn't feed from people so much and b) they wouldn't evolve resistance to the method of control? Good idea? This paper addresses concerns that may come to mind about whether this would be an effective way to control malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases on a global scale.

Human factors

Perception

Consciousness

Is thinking about another person's memory like thinking about a photograph or a photograph of a photograph? This is the paper that came out of my dissertation research. (And here is my dissertation on the same topic.)
Here are ways to go about using neuroimaging to tell where an uncommunicative patient, such as a young child, is in pain.
A fruit fly consciousness experiment: if you give anesthetics to a fruit fly at night and it doesn't move, how can you tell if the fly is anesthetized or just asleep?
Detecting consciousness - a readable explanation of the following academic papers. For your Kindle!

Here is how to communicate with, and detect consciousness in, children or adults who cannot move.
Here is a new way to detect anesthesia awareness, the unfortunate situation that arises when a patient "wakes up" during surgery but cannot move or communicate.
Here is one way to use magnetoencephalography to tell if a person who cannot move is conscious. This is the paper that accompanies a poster I presented at the 2008 Biomagnetisim conference in Sapporo, Japan.
Update! The Coma Science Group cited and used the methods described in the previous papers to try detecting consciousness in a man diagnosed as vegetative. They got him to answer yes/no questions by asking him to change his mental state in ways that are detectable using neuroimaging, with one of these mental states meaning "yes," and the diagnosis was revised.

Evolution

Etc.

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From neurotree, here is one line of my academic ancestors:

(grad student for)

Robert Kurzban (University of Pennsylvania)

(grad student for)

Leda Cosmides (University of California, Santa Barbara)

(post-doc for)

Roger Newland Shepard

(Stanford University)

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Carl I Hovland

(Yale University)

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Clark L Hull (University of Wisconsin)

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Joseph Jastrow (Johns Hopkins University)

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Granville Stanley Hall (Johns Hopkins University)

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William James (Harvard University)

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Louis Agassiz (Harvard University)

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Ignaz Döllinger (University of Wurzburg)

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Antonio Scarpa (University of Modena)

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Giovanbattista Morgagni (University of Padova)

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Antonio Valsalva (University of Bologna)

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Marcello Malpighi (University of Bologna)

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Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (Messina)

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Benedetto Castelli (University of Rome)

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Galileo Galilei (University of Padua)

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Selected paper - if you read just one

Human factors

Perception

Consciousness

Evolution

Etc.

Check out Core Human Factors, Inc. and wise giraffe, and contact me!