TAG: brain
"What these experiments neatly demonstrate is that the taste of a wine, like the taste of everything, is not merely the sum of our inputs, and cannot be solved in a bottom-up fashion."
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"I realized the magic of the information age is that it allows us to know less. It provides us with external cognitive servants."
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Human Memory and the Outboard Brain
"My point is that the cyborg future is here. Almost without noticing it, we've outsourced important peripheral brain functions to the silicon around us."
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Flow: A New Consciousness For A Web Of Traffic
Stowe Boyd on a new kind of consciousness.
Better living through self deception
"Perhaps the way to true personal acheivement and happiness is through lying to yourself instead of being honest, loafing instead of practicing, and purposely forgetting information."
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"For the first time in advertising history, brand owners are offered the opportunity to buy meda space within someone's mind."
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"The latest supercomputer is way faster than the human brain. But guess which is smarter?" by Robert Metcalf
"As someone who's on the Web too many hours, I have wondered what changing screens hundreds of times each day to access different gobs of "information" has done to the way our brains order the world, which is known as human consciousness."
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"Although both men and women look at the image of George Brett when directed to find out information about his sport and position, men tend to focus on private anatomy as well as the face. For the women, the face is the only place they viewed."
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"Are our brains wired for sound? One professor has provocative theories, and they started with Blue Oyster Cult."
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"The brain is a parallel processor - it simultaneously processes many different types of information . . Effective teaching employs a variety of learning strategies. So having different ways of communicating and and different levels of communication might
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Cognitive Seduction and the "peekaboo" law
"Evolution has seen to it that the very act of searching for the hidden object is enjoyable, not just the final 'aha' of recognition--lest you give up the chase."
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"Gabora explains what happens to our minds when we’re doing creative work."
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Scott Adams, illustrator of Dilbert, came down with something called Spasmodic Dysphonia. Basically you're brain forgets how to speak in normal context. No one had ever recovered. Until now . . .
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"Inner blogging: your mind becomes a blog, and your sensory impressions are the posts. Your entire life seems like an ongoing "blog" of sorts. Blogging is then like praying. You are constantly "publishing" new "posts" to your inner consciousness."
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"I am my brain's publisher."
"Up until now, people thought that [shyness] was mostly related to avoidance of social situations . . . Here we showed that shy children have increased activity in the reward system of the brain as well."
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"Are you capable of multiplying 147,631,789 by 23,674 in your head, instantly? Physicist Allan Snyder says you probably can, based on his new theory about the origin of the extraordinary skills of autistic savants."
Why can't you pay attention anymore?
All of that data flying at you by e-mail, instant message, cell phone, voice mail and BlackBerry--it could actually be making you dumber.
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The Multitasking or Music-Tasking Generation?
"At it's best, familiar music just induces a pleasant and brain-restful expectancy. Music primes the brain with for new associations, intuitive thinking, and even language."
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"Most of us want to practice the things we're already good at, and avoid the things we suck at. We stay average or intermediate amateurs forever."
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How Social Bookmarking can lead to the Semantic Web
How combining the collective knowledge of individuals through tags can create some level of intelligence.
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Instant Study Hints Advertisers Should Objectify Women
"Your brain's favorite Super Bowl ads may not be the ones you wanted to like the most."
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"Now enter the blogosphere, where ideas are born, nurtured, transmitted and evolved -- all in a single day. Ideas have a life of their own; good ones seem to create their own connections."
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Hacking the Human OS: How we learn
" According to Richard E. Mayer, before any message or new idea will be fully understood, a person must go through three learning phases: I like to call them select, construct, and connect."
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"In the first study of its kind, researchers have found that peyote -- for now, the only legal hallucinogenic drug in the United States -- doesn't rob regular users of brain power over time."
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Thinking Sideways: Exploring pattern recognition acceleration
An interview with Malcolm Gladwell about Blink and the topics within.
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You're emotional. Deal with it.
"People don't choose rationally to listen to your message and then have a feeling about it. They choose to listen to your message because they have a feeling about it."
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Switch! - Cross-Disciplinary Learning
"Any student of creativity or innovation knows that changing disciplines seems to be a way of keeping 'fresh' and getting new ideas."
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Your Central Nervous System: Your Biological Key to Productivity
Strategies to make your body work for you
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The Examined Life: Cultivating Self-Reflection and the Return of Socratic Thinking
"Self-reflective thinking is making a comeback in school curricula and the homeschooling movement, and it also seems to succeed on standardized tests of achievement and problem solving assessments."
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An overview of Jeff Hawkins talk at D3 about the brain and AI.
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Wired: "Scientists are scanning brain activity in the hopes of catching sight of the physical mechanisms that determine whether you prefer Coke over Pepsi."
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New Scientist: "There are lots of tricks, techniques and habits, as well as changes to your lifestyle, diet and behaviour that can help you flex your grey matter and get the best out of your brain cells."
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Twelve Ways to Think Differently
Twelve methods that will exercise parts of your brain that rarely get it, and make you more creative and better able to understand the world.
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All leadership comes down to this: changing people's behavior. Why is that so damn hard? Science offers some surprising new answers -- and ways to do better.
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Increase the Challenge, Increase the Attention
Eide: "Older adults and younger school age children had problems with focus at low levels of 'visual challenge' . . . When the task was made more challenging (centrally distracting letters), both the older and younger subjects performed better."
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Noise Between Stations: "So how do we become more creative? There’s no easy fix. To be creative, new neural pathways need to be constructed by, well, being creative. Kraft suggests four steps for doing that"
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Who's in charge--you or your brain?
Creating Passionate Users: "Everyone should know how their brain really works, because it--not you--is running the show!"
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Life's top 10 greatest inventions
This list includes such popular inventions as the "brain" and "symbiosis"
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Inflection Points: Personal Discoveries that Redirected Children's Lives
"In the rush to have all our school children 'meet standards' and be taught "what every n'th grader needs to know", we shouldn't forget that some of the most memorable experiences are those which make children yearn to learn more."
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Brain chip reads man's thoughts
A paralysed man in the US has become the first person to benefit from a brain chip that reads his mind.
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Creating Passionate Users: "The more we learn about the brain, the more we learn about learning, and learning is the key. Not just as something to get better at (i.e. learning to learn), but learning as exercise for the brain."
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"It looks as if blogging will be very good for our brains. It holds enormous potential in education, and it could take societal communication and creative exchange onto a whole new level."
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Here are some hints on how to construct a mind map.
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Jeff Hawkins new company. Numenta is developing a new type of computer memory system modeled after the human neocortex.
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Why Logic Often Takes A Backseat
The study of neuroeconomics may topple the notion of rational decision-making
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How much can your mind keep track of?
"It's difficult to measure the limits of processing capacity because most people automatically use problem solving skills to break down large complex problems into small, manageable "chunks.""
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Changing world is leaving the SAT behind
As so-called SAT skills gets automated and moved overseas, the test is going to need to adapt to test skills required in the 21st century
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SXSW: daniel pink on "a whole new mind"
Many-to-Many: "Says that brevity, levity, and repetition are key to good talks. (And my snap judgment here? He’s an entertaining and interesting speaker.)"
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Think of a Number ... Come On, Think!
What are impact of cell phones on our memory?
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Logical and precise, left-brain thinking gave us the Information Age. Now comes the Conceptual Age - ruled by artistry, empathy, and emotion.
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Tagwebs, Flickr, and the Human Brain (by Jakob Lodwick)
Understanding how the human brain works thanks to tags
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Is religion hard-wired into the brain?
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Fascinating LA Times article about the effects of marketing on the brain
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How To Talk When You Can't Speak
Is it possible for people to communicate with their unconscious mind?
How new software may help us think more effectively
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