Michael L. Anderson, Ph.D.
	Department of Psychology	Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
	Franklin & Marshall College	Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
	Lancaster, PA 17604	University Of Maryland
	michael -dot- anderson -at- fandm -dot- edu	College Park, MD 20742

AGC News

• The new neuroscience blog After Phrenology just went live on Psychology Today.

• Anderson interviewed by Wired magazine about some new findings in embodied cognition.

• Neural re-use as a fundamental organizational principle of the brain, accepted as a BBS Target Article.

• The Brain Economy, an article on Diffusion Tensor Imaging, and what it means for our understanding of the brain, appears on Forbes.com, August 24, 2009.

• Anderson interviewed by Discovery Channel News about the future of self-regulating (in this context "ethical") robots in warfare. Unfortunately, the key point—that the main technical problem here is getting the robots to act properly when rules conflict or information is contradictory—didn't make the article.

• Building better robots, an article about the "self-aware", self-correcting robot project in the AGC labs. Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, November 28, 2008.

• Des travaux d'une très grande portée, an interview with Anderson on the meaning and importance of the Human Connectome project. Le Temps, July 1, 2008.

• Several papers have recently appeared, including:
  • Affordances and intentionality: Reply to Roberts
  • A critique of multi-voxel pattern analysis.
  • The origins of collective overvaluation: Irrational exuberance emerges from simple, honest and rational individual behavior.
  • Investigating functional cooperation in the human brain using simple graph-theoretic methods.
  • What mindedness is
  • Review of Neuroeconomics: Decision making and the brain.
  • Review of Midbrain mutiny: The picoeconomics and neuroeconomics of disordered gambling.
  • Review of How the body shapes the way we think: A new view of intelligence.
  • On the grounds of x-grounded cognition
  • Circuit sharing and the implementation of intelligent systems

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