Science Teen Driving: Brain Changes Make Some Teens More Likely to Crash Their CarsInverse - Emma Betuel Changes in the Brain Make Some Teens More Likely to Crash Their Cars It's not all about too few hours in the car. The moment of a car crash is the …
Health (UK) Left-handed DNA found - and it changes brain structureBBC News - James GallagherScientists have found the first genetic instructions hardwired into human DNA that are linked to being left-handed. The instructions also seem to be heavily involved in the structure and function of the
Science A Successful Artificial Memory Has Been Createdscientificamerican.com - Robert Martone We learn from our personal interaction with the world, and our memories of those experiences help guide our behaviors. Experience and memory are …
Chimpanzees’ working memory is remarkably similar to our owntheconversation.com - Christoph Völter Working memory is central to our mental lives. It allows us to keep track of a series of previous events or actions. For instance, we use it to add …
A Newfound Neuron Might Help Keep the Brain's Cells in SyncWIRED - Meredith Fore A long-standing controversy in neuroscience centers on a simple question: how do neurons in the brain share information? Sure, it’s well-known that …
The Brain Dream hacking: How to use your brain's wildest, weirdest stateMashable - by Chris TaylorOn the edge of sleep, one woman finds the brain's most mysterious and creative state On the edge of sleep, one woman finds the brain's most mysterious and creative state It’s the last talk of the night
Normal Brain vs. Brain With DementiaU.S. News & World Report - Lisa Esposito You don't need to be a brain specialist to notice certain differences in images of a healthy older person's brain compared to that of someone with …
Harvard, MIT Study Says Doing 1 Simple Thing Is 'Almost Magical' for Your Child's Brain Development and SuccessInc Magazine - Scott MautzThis one thing is very doable and very powerful, as brain research has shown. There's enough brain-rotting stimuli within your child's reach that any parent should take note when hearing of alternatives
The Brain New Study Finds Frightening Connection Between Weight Gain and Brain HealthFatherly - Lauren Vinopal A new study pinpoints a frightening connection between obesity and a thinner cerebral cortex. It is pretty easy t0 gain weight as you grow older. …
Why Taking Time Off Is Good for Your BrainInc Magazine - Minda ZetlinResearch shows you'll do better work if you take more downtime. Keep that in mind this Thanksgiving. It's Sunday evening but instead of relaxing with your family, you're sitting in front of your home There
The Brain Science Just Found ‘Frustration Neurons’ In The Brain, And The Discovery Could Help Explain Why We Give UpForbes - David DiSalvoFew things crush the spirit like the sensation of giving up. We all know the feeling – when you thought a goal was in reach, then realize you just don’t have enough of whatever it takes to get there. what
Emotion schemas are embedded in the human visual systemsciencemag.org J. Tooby, L. Cosmides, The evolutionary psychology of the emotions and their relationship to internal regulatory variables, in Handbook of Emotions, …
Opinion Five myths about consciousnessThe Washington Post - By Christof KochThere’s a long history of scientists thinking they have identified a particular feature to explain our advanced consciousness (and planetary dominance). In a popular TED talk, the neuroscientist Suzana
The Brain Stress Changes The Brain, And This Could Be How It HappensForbes - David DiSalvoThe results of a new brain imaging study may have just answered a big question about how stress changes the brain. Using a combination of genetic editing and brain scanning in mice, researchers found stress
Toxins The brain's drain: How our brains flush out their waste and toxins | New Scientistnewscientist.com - By Chelsea Whyte How does the brain clean itself? We now know a major route for clearing toxins out from the brain, and the finding could help us understand what goes …
Consciousness Decoding the neuroscience of consciousnessnature.com - Emily Sohn A growing understanding of consciousness could lead to fresh treatments for brain injuries and phobias. In the 1990s, neuroscientist Melvyn Goodale …
Altered States of Consciousness: The Neuropsychology of How Time Perception Modulates Our Experience of Self, from DepressionBrain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova“The brain does not simply represent the world in a disembodied way as an intellectual construct… Our mind is body-bound. We think, feel, and act with our body in the world. All experience is embedded
What’s new and what isn’t about Elon Musk’s brain-computer interfaceMIT Technology Review - Antonio Regalado It’s state of the art, but Neuralink still has a long way to go Late Tuesday night, fans and haters of Elon Musk turned out by the thousands to watch …
Neuralink Why Our Brains Will Soon Be Able To Communicate DigitallyForbes - Enrique DansI would highly recommend investing a couple of hours to watch the presentation video of Neuralink, the most recent company created by Elon Musk. Do not trust what you read on the news when it comes to
Neuralink Elon Musk Sees His Neuralink Merging Your Brain With A.I.Forbes - Alex KnappElon Musk said startup Neuralink, which aims to build a scalable implant to connect human brains with computers, has already implanted chips in rats and plans to test its brain-machine interface in humans
The Neuroscience of Motivation: Why We Do What We Do [Infographics]Forbes - Christine ComafordWhat creates passion, loyalty, drive, peak performance and even love for one’s organization? Motivation. With a clear vision of success, available resources, who they can get mentoring with, you have motivated
The Geometry of Thought |edge.org - Barbara Tversky I do get obsessed. One recent obsession is lines, I see them everywhere. The lines that the eye creates when there are none, connecting the dots so …
God and the Brain: The Rationality of Beliefpublishersweekly.com In this underdeveloped work, Clark (The Story of Ethics), interfaith research fellow at Grand Valley State University, uses philosophy and cognitive …
How your brain invents moralityVox - Sigal SamuelPatricia Churchland is a neurophilosopher. That’s a fancy way of saying she studies new brain science, old philosophical questions, and how they shed light on each other. For years, she’s been bothered
Play button Sometimes Your Brain Goes Back in Time and Changes What it PerceivedVICEA new brain scan can tell the difference between good surgeons and inexperienced ones Prominent heart surgeon David Sabiston, who performed an early coronary bypass operation in the 1960s, led a surgical
The human brain, explainedNational Geographic - Catherine ZuckermanLearn about the most complex organ in the human body, from its structure to its most common disorders. Here’s something to wrap your mind around: The human brain is more complex than any other known structure
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo The act of drawing something has a “massive” benefit for memory compared with writing it downbps.org.uk - BPS Research Digest By Emma YoungA picture is worth a thousand words…. When it comes to conveying a concept, this sentiment can certainly be true. But it may also be the …
‘Philosophically speaking, we can never fully trust our memory’The Guardian - Andrew AnthonyOf all the mysteries of the mind, perhaps none is greater than memory. Why do we remember some things and forget others? What is memory’s relationship to consciousness and our identities? Where and how
There Is No Such Thing as Conscious Thoughtrealclearbooks.com - Steve Ayan Peter Carruthers, Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, is an expert on the philosophy of …
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