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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2021 00:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How does your brain—an organ smaller than a soccer ball—represent the big, wide world of sensations, events, and&#160;meaning&#160;unfolding all around you?&#160; Your experience of the world feels so seamless and boundless that you may never have thought to ask this question. But once asked, the question demands an answer. Or, in this case, it demands [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 04:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My book, Brainscapes, will be released this coming Tuesday and I could not be more excited to share it with the world. Brainscapes tells the story of brain maps&#8211;actual maps of space, action, and perception written into the surfaces of your brain. These maps represent the world around you, dictating what you perceive and shaping [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Act of Falling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2017 14:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; I recently had the honor and pleasure of reading something at the wedding of two wonderful people: my dear brother-in-law Arvin and his remarkable (now) wife Erica. It was a beautiful and very special ceremony. My reading was a . . . something (essay? prose poem?) that I wrote for the occasion. In writing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Podcast Interview on Writing Review Articles (Bonus: Grandmother Orcas)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Schwarzlose]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was recently interviewed for the Cell Press Podcast about a post I wrote for CrossTalk, the Cell Press blog. The post was a how-to for scientists who want to write a review article that people will actually read. Awesomely, people actually read the post too. It quickly became one of the most read posts of 2016, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Be the Sucker Who Waits to Cross</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Schwarzlose]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2017 03:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You’ve seen him before: the poor soul who doesn’t cross the street on a Don’t Walk signal, even when there isn’t a car in sight. Even while other pedestrians are streaming past him, crossing the street and continuing along their merry way. Bottom line: you should try to become that guy. Think of it as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mommy Makes a Brain Magazine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Schwarzlose]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2016 04:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CrossTalk, the Cell Press blog, recently published a profile of me as editor of Trends in Cognitive Sciences. It includes my favorite parts of the job, how I explain what I do to my little girls, and the dubious award I&#8217;ve won two years in a row.]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Schwarzlose]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has been a month and a half since I last posted. For those of you who might have wondered, I didn&#8217;t die and I haven&#8217;t been kidnapped. I&#8217;ve been preparing to move to Boston for a new job. In early July, I will start as the new editor of Trends in Cognitive Sciences at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Zapping Brains, Seeing Scenes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2014 14:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[More than fifteen years ago, neuroimagers found a region of the brain that seemed to be all about place. The region lies on the bottom surface of the temporal lobe near a fold called the parahippocampal gyrus, so it was called the parahippocampal place area, or PPA. You have two PPAs: one on the left [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Do Preschoolers Learn from Fantastical Picture Books?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the new picture books making the bedtime rounds at our house is How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, which describes and depicts dinosaurs doing such un-dinosaurly things as tucking themselves into bed or kissing their human mothers good night. The book is whimsical, gorgeously illustrated, and includes a scientific angle, as the genus names [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Did I Do That? Distinguishing Real from Imagined Actions</title>
		<link>https://gardenofthemind.com/2014/04/07/did-i-do-that-distinguishing-real-from-imagined-actions/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Schwarzlose]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 19:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you’re like most people, you spend a great deal of your time remembering past events and planning or imagining events that may happen in the future. While these activities have their uses, they also make it terribly hard to keep track of what you have and haven’t actually seen, heard, or done. Distinguishing between [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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