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"What this research suggests, however, is that we need to make time to escape from everyone else, to explore those parts of the world that weren't designed for us. It's when we are lost in the wild that the mind is finally at home."

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4 days ago by kvnglbrtsn

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Why Being Sleepy and Drunk Are Great for Creativity

"The larger lesson is that those sleepy students, like a brain-damaged patient, benefit from the inability to focus. Their minds are drowsy and disorganized, humming with associations that they’d normally ignore. When we need an insight, of course, those stray associations are the source of the answer."

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10 weeks ago by kvnglbrtsn

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Mind vs. Machine

"As computers have mastered rarefied domains once thought to be uniquely human, they simultaneously have failed to master the ground-floor basics of the human experience—spatial orientation, object recognition, natural language, adaptive goal-setting—and in so doing, have shown us how impressive, computationally and otherwise, such minute-to-minute fundamentals truly are." from The Atlantic.

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december 2011 by kvnglbrtsn

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Deep Intellect: Inside the mind of the octopus

"'Octopuses,' writes philosopher Godfrey-Smith, 'are a separate experiment in the evolution of the mind.' And that, he feels, is what makes the study of the octopus mind so philosophically interesting." from Orion Magazine.

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november 2011 by kvnglbrtsn

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Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains

"Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this entertaining, data-rich talk he gives us a glimpse into how the brain creates the grace and agility of human motion."

brain neuroscience fitness movement
november 2011 by kvnglbrtsn

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Your Brain Knows a Lot More Than You Realize

"Neuroscientist David Eagleman explores the processes and skills of the subconscious mind, which our conscious selves rarely consider."

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november 2011 by kvnglbrtsn

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In conversation: Alison Gopnik

"On what’s wrong with the way we teach." Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley.

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november 2011 by kvnglbrtsn

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The Brain on Trial

"Neuroscience is beginning to touch on questions that were once only in the domain of philosophers and psychologists, questions about how people make decisions and the degree to which those decisions are truly “free.” These are not idle questions. Ultimately, they will shape the future of legal theory and create a more biologically informed jurisprudence."

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june 2011 by kvnglbrtsn

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The Possibilian

David Eagleman and Mysteries of the Brain. "Time is a dimension like any other, fixed and defined down to its tiniest increments: millennia to microseconds, aeons to quartz oscillations. Yet the data rarely matches our reality." from The New Yorker.

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april 2011 by kvnglbrtsn

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Why Are Easy Decisions So Hard?

"Their hypothesis is that my wasted deliberation...is a metacognitive mistake....I confuse the array of options and excess of information with importance."

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march 2011 by kvnglbrtsn

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This Year, Change Your Mind

"Just as physical activity is essential to maintaining a healthy body, challenging one’s brain, keeping it active, engaged, flexible and playful, is not only fun. It is essential to cognitive fitness." from NYT.

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january 2011 by kvnglbrtsn

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The Improvisational Brain

"Embedded memories and conspiring brain regions, scientists now believe, are the true source of ad-hoc creativity." from Seed.

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december 2010 by kvnglbrtsn

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Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind?

"What is really lost when this happens is the self-invention of a human brain. If students don’t learn to think, then no amount of access to information will do them any good." from NYT.

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september 2010 by kvnglbrtsn

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We Are All Talk Radio Hosts

"That voice in your head...only cares about finding reasons that sound good, even if the reasons are actually irrelevant or false." from Wired.

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august 2010 by kvnglbrtsn

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Look Deep Into the Mind

"We take visual imagination for granted. But the blank inner world of a patient called MX demonstrates the rich neural processes needed to create the images in our heads." from Discover.

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march 2010 by kvnglbrtsn

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Why We Need to Dream

"Wilson speculates that dreams are also an attempt to search for associations between seemingly unrelated experiences, which is why it’s so important for the controlling conscious self to disappear." from NYT Opinionator blog.

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march 2010 by kvnglbrtsn

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Troxler's fading

"Troxler's fading has been attributed to adaptation of neurons in the visual system vital for perceiving a stimulus. It is part of the general principle in sensory systems that an unvarying stimulus soon disappears from our awareness." from Wikipedia.

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march 2010 by kvnglbrtsn

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Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation

"To investigate the neural substrates that underlie spontaneous musical performance, we examined improvisation in professional jazz pianists using functional MRI." from PLoS ONE.

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february 2010 by kvnglbrtsn

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Music and the Brain

Concerts from the Library of Congress, 2008-2009. Presented by the Library's Music Division and the Science, Technology and Business Division.

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february 2010 by kvnglbrtsn

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The Itch

Its mysterious power may be a clue to a new theory about brains and bodies. by Atul Gawande in The New Yorker.

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january 2010 by kvnglbrtsn

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Watching the Brain Learn

Two groups of neuroscientists using MRI brain imaging announced last month that they were able to see changes inside the brains of people after mastering a new skill. The big surprise is that the part of the brain that changed has no neurons or synapses in it! The cerebral remodeling during learning was seen in the mysterious and still largely unexplored “white matter” region of the brain. from Scientific American.

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november 2009 by kvnglbrtsn

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What the web is teaching our brains

Spending hours on the net isn't only changing the way we work, shop and socialise. A leading neurologist says it is subtly re-wiring the way we think and behave – often for the better.

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november 2009 by kvnglbrtsn

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Tall Stories

Spontaneous, fluid, even riotous creativity is a natural part of the design of the mind.

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november 2009 by kvnglbrtsn

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Lying and Creativity

When we repress our urge to confabulate we also repress the urge to create.

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november 2009 by kvnglbrtsn

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The Fragmented Orchestra

The Fragmented Orchestra is a huge distributed musical structure modelled on the firing of the human brain's neurons. Twenty-four sites around the UK are connected to each other to form a “neural” network. The sonic information captured at these sites is transmitted over the internet, causing other sites to “fire”.

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november 2009 by kvnglbrtsn

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The Rise of the Neuronovel

What has been variously referred to as the novel of consciousness or the psychological or confessional novel—the novel, at any rate, about the workings of a mind—has transformed itself into the neurological novel, wherein the mind becomes the brain.

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october 2009 by kvnglbrtsn

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Reading, E-Books and the Brain

Research suggests that the act of reading observes a gradient of fluency.

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october 2009 by kvnglbrtsn

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Is Google Making Us Stupid?

What the Internet is doing to our brains. from the atlantic.

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october 2009 by kvnglbrtsn

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Dome Improvement

Pop quiz: Why are IQ test scores rising around the globe? (Hint: Stop reading the great authors and start playing Grand Theft Auto.)

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october 2009 by kvnglbrtsn

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Watching TV Makes You Smarter

"...the Sleeper Curve is the single most important new force altering the mental development of young people today, and I believe it is largely a force for good: enhancing our cognitive faculties, not dumbing them down." from nyt.

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october 2009 by kvnglbrtsn

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Mindcipher

The social repository of the world's greatest brain teasers, logical puzzles and mental challenges.

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october 2009 by kvnglbrtsn

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Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop

over time the constant hyperactivation of the stress response can unbalance the entire feedback loop. from nyt.

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august 2009 by kvnglbrtsn

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From butterfly to caterpillar: How children grow up

Play is the hallmark of the paradoxically useful uselessness of extended immaturity.

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august 2009 by kvnglbrtsn

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Musicophilia: Six Questions for Oliver Sacks

from Harper's Magazine.

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august 2009 by kvnglbrtsn

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Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brain

It might seem precarious to have a brain that plunges randomly into periods of instability, but the disorder is actually essential to the brain's ability to transmit information and solve problems.

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july 2009 by kvnglbrtsn

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NOVA | Musical Minds | PBS

Oliver Sacks explores how the power of music can make the brain come alive. (Note: Due to rights restrictions, this program is only available for streaming on the NOVA website for one week, from July 1-7, 2009.)

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july 2009 by kvnglbrtsn

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This Is Your Brain on Facebook

new media and brain plasticity. from seed.

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may 2009 by kvnglbrtsn

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To Be a Baby

new experiments in developmental psychology. from seed.

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may 2009 by kvnglbrtsn

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Findings: Ear Plugs to Lasers

the science of concentration. from nyt.