RSS

robertogreco + brain   355

A week of a student's electrodermal activity - Joi Ito's Web
"Obviously, this is just one student and doesn't necessarily generalize, but I love that the electrodermal activity is nearly flatlined during classes. ;-) (Note that the activity is higher during sleep than during class...)

"Changes in skin conductance at the surface, referred to as electrodermal activity (EDA), reflect activity within the sympathetic axis of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and provide a sensitive and convenient measure of assessing alterations in sympathetic arousal associated with emotion, cognition, and attention.""
measurement  deschooling  unschooling  learning  yourbrainonschool  brain  boredom  engagement  sleeping  2012  joiito  quantifiedself  academia  education  from delicious
4 weeks ago by robertogreco
After I die (22 Apr., 2012, at Interconnected)
"When I imagine the dead me, I imagine a body with a brain which is thinking really, really slowly. As my body and my brain decompose, these are simply changes in the structure—so decomposition would feel like learning and developing, in some sort of way. And as adjacent neurons break down and affect one-another, or as a worm burrows its way through my dead brain, maybe these would feel like occasional thoughts.

And so, during this time, the pattern which is my consciousness becomes absorbed into the pattern which is the world, & mingles w/ structures already there, new connections are made & others broken, just as thinking already is, & the changing me-pattern I experience as slow thoughts and slow developments of the self, & I become part of a wide, slow, thinking earth.

That's option one, to be buried and to decompose gently.

Option two:

I would like to be cremated, my ashes made into bread, and the bread shared out and eaten by all my friends. I think that would be wonderful."
brain  thinking  longnow  slow  consciousness  cremation  decomposition  2012  mattwebb  death  from delicious
4 weeks ago by robertogreco
David Byrne's Journal: 12.13.11: Odyshape
"We instinctively want to believe that a merit-based world exists—that with some hard work, focus, time, effort and perseverance, you too will be rewarded with the body you see on the billboard. The same also applies to our notions of economic well-being. As a result, you have Bill O’Reilly and Newt Gingrich (among many others) implying that poor people are poor simply because they aren’t trying hard enough (note the clever segue from Barbie to politics and economics). The implication is that poor people, or anyone who isn’t successful, just aren’t applying themselves or trying hard enough. Also, that less than fabulously attractive people similarly aren’t going to the gym enough. The corollary is that Bill and Newt are as wealthy as they are because they worked hard. This, excuse me, is bullshit…

Sadly, this dissonance between what is possible image wise, and what is being aimed for by many normal women, is making many of them nutso."
davidbyrne  odyshape  2011  science  politics  sociology  anthropology  darwin  sexualselection  geoffreymiller  photoshop  girls  women  gender  truth  brain  vision  normal  economics  luck  barbie  beingbarbie  henrikehrsson  arvidguterstam  björnvanderhoort  perception  neuroscience  via:lukeneff  bodyimage  femininity  from delicious
7 weeks ago by robertogreco
Synesthesia's blended senses - latimes.com
"The study of synesthesia has helped shift the way scientists think about the brain. In the past, they have focused on matching different areas with specific functions; now, the entire organ is viewed as a tapestry of interwoven connections.

"The whole system is a giant network," Eagleman says. "It's no longer sufficient to think about single areas in isolation."

Like synesthesia, many neurological disorders — such as schizophrenia, autism,Alzheimer's disease, depression and epilepsy — have been linked to abnormal communication between brain regions. The hope is that as neuroscientists learn about how the connections in the synesthetic brain differ from those in normal brains, they will also gain insight into how these differences develop — and how they sometimes manifest as harmful disorders."
davideagleman  sensoryprocessingdysfunction  depression  epilepsy  alzheimers  schizophrenia  autism  music  sudio  sounds  smells  colors  numbers  ucsd  networks  senses  brain  neuroscience  2012  synesthesia  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
The Essential Psychopathology Of Creativity
"The point here is this: Were it not for those “disordered” genes, you wouldn’t have extremely creative, successful people.  Being in the absolute middle of every trait spectrum, not too extreme in any one direction, makes you balanced, but rather boring.  The tails of the spectrum, or the fringe, is where all the exciting stuff happens.  Some of the exciting stuff goes uncontrolled and ends up being a psychological disorder, but some of those people with the traits that define Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, ADHD, and other psychological conditions, have the fortunate gift of high cognitive control paired with those traits, and end up being the creative geniuses that we admire, aspire to be like, and desperately need in this world.

…If we were to be able to identify the genes for Schizophrenia, or for Bipolar Disorder, or for ADHD… would we want to eliminate them? If we were making a “designer baby”, would you choose those genes to be added into your child’s genome?

I say yes."
lianegabora  johngartner  hypomaticedge  hypomanicepisodes  flow  mihalycsikszentmihalyi  entrepreneurship  executivefunction  cognitivecontrol  psychopathology  genetics  brain  psychology  bipolardisorder  schizophrenia  adhd  andreakuszewski  2010  creativity 
february 2012 by robertogreco
Blue Brain Project - Wikipedia
"The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level.
The aim of the project, founded in May 2005 by the Brain and Mind Institute of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) is to study the brain's architectural and functional principles. The project is headed by the Institute's director, Henry Markram. Using a Blue Gene supercomputer running Michael Hines's NEURON software, the simulation does not consist simply of an artificial neural network, but involves a biologically realistic model of neurons.[1][2][not in citation given] It is hoped that it will eventually shed light on the nature of consciousness.[citation needed]

There are a number of sub-projects, including the Cajal Blue Brain, coordinated by the Supercomputing and Visualization Center of Madrid (CeSViMa), and others run by universities and independent laboratories in the UK, US, and Israel."
stumbleduponwhilesearching  reverse-engineering  bluebrainproject  bluebrain  wikipedia  singularity  transhumanism  neuroscience  brain  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
The Persistence Of Memory | Wired Science | Wired.com
"The great mystery of memory is how it endures. The typical neural protein only lasts for a few weeks, the cortex in a constant state of reincarnation. How, then, do our memories persist? It’s as if our remembered past can outlast the brain itself.

But wait: the mystery gets even more mysterious. A neuronal memory cannot simply be strong: it must also be specific. While each neuron has only a single nucleus, it has a teeming mass of dendritic branches. These twigs wander off in every direction, connecting to other neurons at dendritic synapses (imagine two trees whose branches touch in a dense forest). It is at these tiny crossings that our memories are made: not in the trunk of the neuronal tree, but in its sprawling canopy.

This means that every memory – represented as an altered connection between cells – cannot simply endure. It must endure in an incredibly precise way, so that the wiring diagram remains intact even as the mind gets remade, those proteins continually recycled."
brainscience  biology  science  kausiksi  2012  jonahlehrer  neuroscience  brain  mind  memory  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
A Sharper Mind, Middle Age and Beyond - NYTimes.com
"To isolate the specific impact of schooling on mental skills, Dr. Lachman & her colleagues tried to control for other likely reasons one person might outshine another—differences in income, parental achievement, gender, physical activity & age. After all, we know that the children of affluent, educated parents have a raft of advantages that could account for greater mental heft down the road. College graduates are able to compound their advantages because they can pour more resources into their minds & bodies.

Still, when Lachman & Dr. Tun reviewed results, they were surprised to discover that into middle age and beyond, people could make up for educational disadvantages encountered earlier in life."

[This doesn't make much sense to me. Is this really the cause & effect? "[A] college degree appears to slow the brain’s aging process." Or are people inclined to go to college wired this way, or the jobs that they're likely to have after college allowing them to keep their minds sharp?]
dementia  margielachman  knowledge  genecohen  brain  intelligence  howardgardner  psychology  patriciacohen  williamosler  neuroscience  mind  minds  aging  education  age  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
Socrates' nightmare - The New York Times [Not buying all of this, but liking some material within]
"At the core of Socrates' arguments lay his concerns for the young. He believed that the seeming permanence of the printed word would delude them into thinking they had accessed the heart of knowledge, rather than simply decoded it. To Socrates, only the arduous process of probing, analyzing and ultimately internalizing knowledge would enable the young to develop a lifelong approach to thinking that would lead them ultimately to wisdom, virtue and "friendship with [their] god."

To Socrates, only the examined word and the "examined life" were worth pursuing, and literacy short-circuited both…

"Perhaps no one was more eloquent about the true purpose of reading than French novelist Marcel Proust, who wrote: "that which is the end of their [the author's] wisdom is but the beginning of ours." The act of going beyond the text to think new thoughts is a developmental, learnable approach toward knowledge."

[via: http://bettyann.tumblr.com/post/16192942818 ]
edwardtenner  brain  neuroscience  text  print  knowledge  sensemaking  meaningmaking  undertsanding  digital  2007  maryannewolf  literacy  reading  criticalthinking  thinking  examinedlife  learning  socrates  proust  marcelproust 
january 2012 by robertogreco
An Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology
"In order to avoid junk sleep, the graduate students suggest not touching cell phones or laptops a half hour before bed. They mention that junk sleep is a result of both the devices that carry the content and the content on the devices. The brightness of the screen, portability of the device, nature of the content on the devices, how the content is displayed and type of content that is consumed all play a role in connecting one's mind to certain activity flows.

Social networking sites structure and dump content into the brain at a compressed rate. They are comprised of a set of unrelated micro-narratives tied together by an interface that provides endless opportunities to interact with content. Unlike a book, these social sites are formatted for quick information absorption, whereas the narrative of a book unfolds slowly, ideas building up on each other over timeâ€Äšš"
reading  content  junksleep  2011  brain  socialnetworking  socialnetworks  insomnia  sleep  _insomnia  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking | Psychology Today
"1. You are creative.
2. Creative thinking is work.
3. You must go through the motions of being creative.
4. Your brain is not a computer.
5. There is no one right answer.
6. Never stop with your first good idea.
7. Expect the experts to be negative.
8. Trust your instincts.
9. There is no such thing as failure.
10. You do not see things as they are; you see them as you are.
11. Always approach a problem on its own terms.
12. Learn to think unconventionally."
creativity  psychology  innovation  art  designthinking  2011  michaelmichalko  cv  conformity  failure  tcsnmy  toshare  openminded  negativity  defensiveness  specialists  creativegeneralists  generalists  knowledge  instinct  problemsolving  brain  thinking  experts  paradox  biases  bias  mindset  closedmindedness 
december 2011 by robertogreco
kung fu grippe - Boom.
"This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution."

[From Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374275637/ ]
psychology  economics  danielkahneman  thinking  heuristics  questions  questioning  askingquestions  substitution  2011  brain  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
Going to Japan | YSO Curious?
"Door to door, going from my apartment to my grandmother’s house takes about 24 hours, give or take a few hours depending on waiting (for public transit, standby seats, etc.).

According to this thread on MetaFilter, a brain holds just over a terabyte of information.

Using university Internet (hooray!), which is supposedly 100mbps, the time it would take to send the contents of my brain to Japan (or anywhere, I guess? I don’t know how that works) is about 26 hours (link).

That’s kinda crazy."
travel  time  japan  brain  memory  data  information  physical  yokosakaoohama  2011  nyc  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
David Byrne's Journal: 10.22.2011: The Subjectivity of Perception
"Our brain’s ability to patch together a coherent visual field and construct a seamless looking image that we know is imaginary (there are noses and trees and thumbs blocking parts of our eyesight) is similar to the propensity to construct a narrative—to imagine a chain of cause and effect out of almost random events. What we see and what we experience of the world is largely a lie, made up by us to satisfy some deeply evolved needs and tendencies. We might know it’s a lie but, still, we are helplessly drawn into these perceptual tricks."
davidbyrne  evesussman  christianmarclay  ryanoakes  trevoroakes  ryanandtrevoroakes  oakestwins  2011  perception  illusion  huans  huamn  vision  fieldofvision  brain  subjectivity  art  sculpture  lawrenceweschler  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
Our Unpaid, Extra Shadow Work - NYTimes.com
"Doing things for one another is, in fact, an essential characteristic of a human community. Various mundane jobs were once spread around among us, and performing such small services for one another was even an aspect of civility. Those days are over. The robots are in charge now, pushing a thousand routine tasks onto each of our backs."
fatigue  work  shadowwork  2011  craiglambert  shadowchores  brain  time  urgency  economics  well-being  technology  self-service  serviceeconomy  services  menialtasks  community  interdependence  independence  individualism  from delicious
october 2011 by robertogreco
A History Of Violence Edge Master Class 2011 | Conversation | Edge
"There are studies showing that violence is more common when people are confined to one pecking order, and all of their social worth depends on where they are in that hierarchy, whereas if they belong to multiple overlapping groups, they can always seek affirmations of worth elsewhere. For example, if I do something stupid when I’m driving, and someone gives me the finger and calls me an asshole, it’s not the end of the world: I think to myself, I’m a tenured professor at Harvard. On the other hand, if status among men in the street was my only source of worth in life, I might have road rage and pull out a gun. Modernity comprises a lot of things, and it’s hard to tease them apart. But I suspect that when you’re not confined to a village or a clan, and you can seek your fortunes in a wide world, that is a pacifying force for exactly that reason."
history  violence  psychology  stevenpinker  hierarchy  humanities  philosophy  society  brain  mind  murder  crime  war  genocide  democracy  hatecrimes  race  class  time  scheduling  mentors  mentoring  doing  teamwork  from delicious
october 2011 by robertogreco
Developing Your Creative Practice: Tips from Brian Eno :: Tips :: The 99 Percent
"1. Freeform capture. Grab from a range of sources without editorializing…<br />
<br />
2. Blank state. Start with new tools, from nothing, and toy around…<br />
<br />
3. Deliberate limitations. Before a project begins, develop specific limitations…<br />
<br />
4. Opposing forces. Sometimes it’s best to generate a forced collision of ideas…<br />
<br />
5. Creative prompts. In the ‘70s Eno developed his Oblique Strategies cards, a series of prompts modeled after the I Ching to disrupt the process and encourage a new way of encountering a creative problem. On the cards are statements and questions like: “Would anybody want it?” “Try faking it!” “Only a part, not the whole.” “Work at a different speed.” “Disconnect from desire.” “Turn it upside down.” “Use an old idea."…<br />
<br />
In the end, don’t underestimate your personal feelings about a project. Eno states: “Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off as just being good fun.” Amen to that."
art  creativity  music  productivity  brain  neuroscience  via:preoccupations  brianeno  2011  jonahlehrer  ideation  classideas  innovation  noticing  limitations  constraints  making  doing  glvo  howwework  process  idleness  boredom  thinking  ideas  has:via  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
Snooze or Lose
"Overstimulated, overscheduled kids are getting at least an hour’s less sleep than they need, a deficiency that, new research reveals, has the power to set their cognitive abilities back years."
sleep  children  parenting  learning  brain  development  2011  pobronson  research  biology  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
The Creativity of Anger | Wired Science | Wired.com
"To be honest, I find this data a little depressing. I’d rather have a brain that, as Osborn believed, always performs best when content and carefree. Unfortunately, that’s not the brain we’ve been stuck with. (Although don’t forget that watching stand-up comedy can improve performance on insight puzzles. Happiness isn’t completely useless.) I’m afraid the novelist J.M. Coetzee was at least partially right: “Always move towards pain when making art.”"
psychology  creativity  brain  apple  stevejobs  motivation  criticism  anger  business  imagination  feedback  jmcoetzee  emotions  mood  2011  honesty  upsidedown  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Neuroskeptic: Is Sleep Brain Defragmentation?
"A new paper from some Stanford neuroscientists argues that the function of sleep is to reorganize neural connections - a bit like a disk defrag for the brain - although it's also a bit like compressing files to make more room, and a bit like a system reset: Synaptic plasticity in sleep: learning, homeostasis and disease"<br />
<br />
[via: http://slavin.tumblr.com/post/9513544909/is-sleep-brain-defragmentation ]
sleep  defragmentation  brain  neuroscience  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Valkee - brain stimulation headset
"Valkee substitutes the mood-elevating effects of the sun, by channeling safe bright light directly to photosensitive regions of the brain through the ear canal. That's why Valkee increases energy, and can act as a preventative or treatment of mood swings. Valkee has CE Class II(a) medical device certification and is clinically tested."<br />
<br />
[Is this for real?]
health  brain  stimulation  headset  valkee  moodswings  mood  energy  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Rudolf Steiner Quotes: Consequenses of potatoes
"The potato takes little care of lung and heart. It reaches the head, but only, as I said, the lower head, not the upper head. It does go into the lower head, where one thinks and exercises critical faculties. Therefore, you can see, in earlier times there were fewer journalists. There was no printing industry yet. Think of the amount of thought expended daily in this world in our time, just to bring the newspapers out! All that thinking, it is much too much, it is not at all necessary — and we have to thank the potato diet for that! Because a person who eats potatoes is constantly stimulated to think. He can't do anything but think. That's why his lungs and his heart become weak. Tuberculosis, lung tuberculosis, did not become widespread until the potato diet was introduced. And the weakest human beings are those living in regions where almost nothing else is grown but potatoes, where the people live on potatoes."
rudolfsteiner  potatoes  food  1924  brain  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
The Rhetoric Of Neuroscience | Wired Science | Wired.com
"The language of neuroscience definitely fuels an “anxious parenting” mentality–everything you do molds the child’s brain, permanently influencing your child’s future life (job, mental health, intelligence, and so forth). This is scary stuff–some of the language I look at uses neuroscience to suggest that a single mistake at the wrong time (an aggressive tone, yelling at the child) can have permanent effects on the child’s emotional stability. Of course, we have always had various ways of promoting – as well as contesting – the anxious parenting mentality, so the neuroscientific version isn’t totally new, it’s just the latest reinvention. But the neuroscientific language and images give it a particularly persuasive quality that I think is especially nerve-wracking–popular magazine features tell us that we can see, on a second-by-second basis, how our every word and behavior are permanently influencing our child’s brain."
jonahlehrer  davijohnsonthornton  parenting  anxiety  anxiousparenting  permanence  fear  neuroscience  language  rhetoric  2011  brain  science 
august 2011 by robertogreco
Are Smart People Getting Smarter? | Wired Science | Wired.com
"That said, environmental stimulation remains an incomplete explanation. Even for those on the right side of the curve, intelligence gains probably have many distinct causes, from the complexity of The Wire to the social multiplier effect, which is the tendency of smart people to hang out with other smart people. (In this sense, gifted programs in schools might help drive IQ gains among the top five percent. The Internet probably helps, too.) The question, of course, is whether such factors have really changed over time. Has it gotten easier for smart people to interact with each other? Are those on the right side of the IQ distribution now more likely to have children together? Would the Flynn effect be even larger if we did more of [fill in the blank]? These questions have no easy answers, but at least we now know that they need to be answered."
flynneffect  intelligence  iq  psychology  brain  jonahlehrer  education  society  history  everythingbadisgoodforyou  stevenjohnson  jamesflynn  multiplicity  multiplicityhypothesis  gifted  giftedprograms  grouping  peergroups  peers  2011  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
danah boyd | apophenia » The Unintended Consequences of Obsessing Over Consequences (or why to support youth risk-taking) ["As I get older, I’m painfully aware of my brain getting more ‘conservative’ (not in a political sense)."]
"I’m worried about our societal assumption that risk-taking without thinking of the consequences is an inherently bad thing. We need some radical thinking to solve many of the world’s biggest problems. And I don’t believe that it’s so easy to separate out what adults perceive as ‘good’ risk-taking from what they think is ‘bad’ risk-taking. But how many brilliant minds will we destroy by punishing their radical acts of defying authority? How many brilliant minds will we destroy by punishing them for ‘being stupid’? It’s easy to get caught up in a binary of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ when all that you can think about is the consequences. But change has never happened when people simply play by the rules. You have to break the rules to create a better society. And I don’t think that it’s easy to do this when you’re always thinking about the consequences of your actions."
teens  creativity  youth  danahboyd  unintendedconsequences  risktaking  risk  learning  innovation  rulebreaking  rules  rulefollowing  adolescence  brain  conservatism  radicalism  anarchism  2011  lcproject  unschooling  deschooling  divergentthinking  criticalthinking  problemsolving  tcsnmy  parenting  schools  education  consequences  mindset  age  aging  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
The Brain: A Body Fit for a Freaky-Big Brain | Mind & Brain | DISCOVER Magazine
"Human biology reorganized itself to cope with the punishing burden of our oversize thinking parts. That shift completely reshaped who we are.
"<br />
<br />
"We cannot ignore this demand, even for a moment. A few minutes without oxygen may not do too much damage to our muscles but can irreparably harm the brain. The brain also requires a constant supply of food. Twenty-five percent of all the calories you eat each day end up fueling the brain. For a newborn infant, with its little body and relatively large and fast-growing brain, that figure leaps to 87 percent."
humans  brains  evolution  brain  energy  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Paul Bloom | Professor of Psychology, Yale University | Big Think
"Paul Bloom is a professor of psychology at Yale University. His research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with special focus on morality, religion, fiction, and art. He is a past president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and a co-editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, one of the major journals in the field. Dr. Bloom has written for scientific journals such as Nature and Science as well as for popular outlets such as The New York Times, the Guardian, and the Atlantic. He is the author or editor of four books, including "Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human." His newest book, "How Pleasure Works," will be published by Norton in June 2010."<br />
<br />
[This link points to the segment of the interview title: "How Are Kids Smarter Than Adults?"]
children  language  socialinteraction  brain  plasticity  psychology  imagination  pretending  interviews  paulbloom  play  pretend  development  fiction  evolution  perception  childdevelopment  morality  art  religion  pleasure  reality  purposefuldeception  self-deception  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
This is just the beginning – Are you thinking inside out?
"Google+ is both trying to replicate offline social network structures (w/ circles) & build social network structures that are unique to online world (w/ following, & w/ fact that anyone can add anyone to a circle, independent of whether these people have met offline). Is this the best approach? No-one knows…<br />
<br />
…science…most of our behavior is driven by non-conscious brain, not by conscious brain…refutes much of our understanding of how the world works. When we meet people, for first time, or for ten thousandth time, there are far too many signals for the conscious brain to take in, analyze, and compute what to do. So our non-conscious brain does the analysis for us, & delivers a feeling, which determines how we react and how we behave. It’s our non-conscious brain that will be deciding which social network succeeds & which one fails. It’s going to take most, if not all, of our lifetime to figure out what is happening in the non-conscious brain. This is just the beginning."
psychology  socialnetworking  google+  facebook  relationships  pauladams  via:preoccupations  online  socialsoftware  socialnetworks  brain  science  consciousawareness  subconscious  gutfeelings  feelings  instinct  2011  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
The Brain on Trial - Magazine - The Atlantic
"Advances in brain science are calling into question the volition behind many criminal acts. A leading neuroscientist describes how the foundations of our criminal-justice system are beginning to crumble, and proposes a new way forward for law and order."<br />
<br />
"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. "
science  psychology  philosophy  behavior  biology  crime  punishment  nature  nurture  naturenurture  davideagleman  2011  mentalillness  mentalhealth  brain  impulsivity  impulse-control  adolescence  incarceration  adolescents  law  legal  future  forwardthinking  thinking  somnambulism  social  socialpolicy  rehabilitation  neuroscience  criminality  recidivism  predictions  data  brainchemistry  pathology  pathologies  tourettes  alzheimers  schizophrenia  mania  depression  murder  blame  blameworthiness  capitalpunishment  logic  freewill  will  jurisprudence  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
City life: Scientists find link between urban life, brain's response to stress - latimes.com
"Offering new meaning to the expression “tough town,” German and Canadian neuroscientists have shown that living in a city — or being raised in one — is associated with differences in the way the brain handles stress.<br />
The discovery, reported Wednesday in the journal Nature, marks the first time researchers have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify specific brain regions that are affected by urban life."<br />
<br />
"People who live in cities are at higher risk for anxiety, mood disorders and schizophrenia, Preussner noted. The brain pathways identified in the team's experiment may have something to do with this.  Understanding the basic biological mechanisms could lead to strategies to combat mental health problems among city dwellers in the future."<br />
<br />
"They also called on researchers to look at the positive side of city life, noting that studies have shown higher rates of suicide in rural areas than in cities."
urban  urbanism  brain  stress  anxiety  psychology  mentalhealth  mentalillness  rural  suicide  2011  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Ads Implant False Memories | Wired Science | Wired.com
"The answer returns us to a troubling recent theory known as memory reconsolidation. In essence, reconsolidation is rooted in the fact that every time we recall a memory we also remake it, subtly tweaking the neuronal details. Although we like to think of our memories as being immutable impressions, somehow separate from the act of remembering them, they aren’t. A memory is only as real as the last time you remembered it. What’s disturbing, of course, is that we can’t help but borrow many of our memories from elsewhere, so that the ad we watched on television becomes our own, part of that personal narrative we repeat and retell.<br />
<br />
This idea, simple as it seems, requires us to completely re-imagine our assumptions about memory."
biology  brain  memory  psychology  science  jonahlehrer  advertising  2011  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Oscillatory Thoughts: We are all inattentive superheroes
"…amazed by the actual experience of sensation. Even beyond the philosophical wonder of passively sampling our outside environment in a shared, meaningful fashion is the ridiculous sensitivity of our senses.<br />
<br />
We're used to thinking of our senses as being pretty shite: we can't see as well as eagles, we can't hear as well as bats, and we can't smell as well as dogs. Or so we're used to thinking.<br />
<br />
It turns out that humans can, in fact, detect as few as 2 photons entering the retina. 2. As in, 1-plus-1.<br />
<br />
It is often said that, under ideal conditions, a young, healthy person can see a candle flame from 30 miles away. That's like being able to see a candle in Times Square from Stamford, Connecticut. Or seeing a candle in Candlestick Park from Napa.<br />
<br />
Similarly, it appears that the limits to our threshold of hearing may actually be Brownian motion. That means that we can almost hear the random movements of atoms.<br />
<br />
We can also smell as few as 30 molecules of certain substances."
science  brain  attention  neuroscience  senses  human  2011  superheroes  superpowers  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Artwork that flourishes after brain damage can shed light for researchers - latimes.com
"Many people who have suffered brain damage turn to creating art. Researchers are studying them to help unravel how the brain works."<br />
<br />
[Images here: http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-diseases-art-photos,0,7504652.photogallery ]
art  brain  outsiderart  neuroscience  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Does Depression Help Us Think Better? | Wired Science | Wired.com
"In other words, Thomson and Andrews imagined depression as a way of forcing the mind to focus on its problems. Although rumination feels terrible, it might make it easier for us to pay continuous attention to our dilemmas. According to Andrews and Thomson, the mood disorder is part of a “coordinated system” that exists “for the specific purpose of effectively analyzing the complex life problem that triggered the depression.” If depression didn’t exist — if we didn’t react to stress and trauma with endless ruminations — then we would be less likely to solve our predicaments."<br />
<br />
"Perhaps Aristotle was a little bit right when he declared: “All men who have attained excellence in philosophy, in poetry, in art and in politics, even Socrates and Plato, had a melancholic habitus; indeed some suffered even from melancholic disease.”"
science  psychology  depression  health  jonahlehrer  research  brain  neuroscience  melancholy  socrates  plato  criticalthinking  thinking  decisionmaking  2011  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
The Reason We Reason | Wired Science | Wired.com
"Our hypothesis is that the function of reasoning is argumentative. It is to devise and evaluate arguments intended to persuade… The idea here is that the confirmation bias is not a flaw of reasoning, it’s actually a feature…"<br />
<br />
"Needless to say, this new theory paints a rather bleak portrait of human nature. We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, blessed with this Promethean gift of being able to decipher the world and uncover all sorts of hidden truths. But Mercier and Sperber argue that reason has little to do with reality, which is why I’m still convinced that those NBA players are streaky when they’re really just lucky. Instead, the function of reasoning is rooted in communication, in the act of trying to persuade other people that what we believe is true. We are social animals all the way down."
jonahlehrer  2011  science  brain  reasoning  bias  human  humans  social  socialanimals  confirmationbias  argument  reason  communication  truth  rationality  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Self-evaluation maintenance theory - Wikipedia
"Self-evaluation maintenance theory refers to discrepancies between two people in a relationship. Two people in a relationship each aim to keep themselves feeling good psychologically throughout a comparison process to the other person.[1] Self-evaluation is defined as the way a person views him/herself. It is the continuous process of determining personal growth and progress, which can be raised or lowered by the behavior of a close other (a person that is psychologically close). People are more threatened by friends than strangers. Abraham Tesser created the self-evaluation maintenance theory in 1988. The self-evaluation maintenance model assumes two things: that a person will try to maintain or increase their own self-evaluation, and self-evaluation is influenced by relationships with others."
psychology  behavior  social  competition  brain  relationships  self-esteem  abrahamtesser  comparison  personalgrowth  progress  success  influence  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Why the truth will out but doesn’t sink in « Mind Hacks
"Maybe it was genuinely the ‘fog of war’ that led to mistaken early reports, but the fact that the media friendly version almost always appears first in accounts of war is likely, at least sometimes, to be a deliberate strategy.

Research shows that even when news reports have been retracted, & we are aware of the retraction, our beliefs are largely based on the initial erroneous version of the story. This is particularly true when we are motivated to approve of the initial account…

More recent studies have supported the remarkable power of first strike news. The emotional impact of the first version has little influence on its power to persuade after correction, & the misinformation still has an effect even when it is remembered more poorly than the retraction.

Even explicitly warning people that they might be misled doesn’t dispel the lingering impact of misinformation after it has been retracted."
politics  science  psychology  research  brain  news  firststrikenews  journalism  influence  misinformation  propaganda  retractions  osamabinladen  iraqwar  war  misleading  media  persuasion  reporting  belief  mindchanges  2011  truth  mindhacks  via:preoccupations  rethinking  unlearning  learning  mindchanging  bias  mindhanging  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Joining the MIT Media Lab - Joi Ito's Web
"In the press release announcing my appointment, Nicholas Negroponte, Media Lab co-founder and chairman emeritus says, "In the past 25 years, the Lab helped to create a digital revolution -- a revolution that is now over. We are a digital culture. Today, the 'media' in Media Lab include the widest range of innovations, from brain sciences to the arts. Their impact will be global, social, economic and political -- Joi's world."<br />
I really felt at home for the first time in many ways. It felt like a place where I could focus - focus on everything - but still have a tremendous ability to work with the team as well as my network and broader extended network to execute and impact the world in a substantial and positive way."
mit  education  joiito  2011  interdisciplinary  multidisciplinary  medialab  nicholasnegroponte  digitalrevolution  digitalculture  change  innovation  brain  science  art  crosspollination  crossdisciplinary  networks  teamwork  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Born to Learn ~ The Ideas
"Overschooled but Undereducated synthesizes an array of research and shows how these insights can contribute to a better understanding of human learning, especially as this relates to adolescence. By mis-understanding teenagers’ instinctive need to do things for themselves, society is in danger of creating a system of schooling that so goes against the natural grain of the adolescent brain that formal education ends up unintentionally trivialising the very young people it claims to be supporting. By failing to keep up with appropriate research in the biological and social sciences, current educational systems continue to treat adolescence as a problem rather than an opportunity.<br />
<br />
This book is about the need for transformational change in education. It synthesizes an array of research from both the physical and social sciences and shows how these insights can contribute to a better understanding of human learning, especially as this relates to adolescence."
research  brain  adolescence  adolescents  learning  independence  tcsnmy  teaching  education  change  reform  teens  parenting  lcproject  cv  self  self-directedlearning  formaleducation  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Born to Learn ~ You are Born to Learn
"Born to learn is a fun, thought-provoking series of animations that illustrate ground-breaking new discoveries about how humans learn."<br />
<br />
"The findings from recent research have started to clarify the essential distinction between “learning” and “being taught”. With this better understanding (from the 1980s onwards) of how children actually learn we are able to see how their innate curiosity can all too easily be knocked out of them by insensitive schooling, unchallenging environments and poor emotional support."
learning  education  brain  via:cervus  video  toshare  unschooling  deschooling  lcproject  human  humans  instruction  constructivism  socialemotionallearning  teaching  play  formal  informallearning  independence  dependence  society  experientiallearning  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
This Space: Hesitation before rebirth
""Kafka stays awake during the gaps when we are sleeping."<br />
<br />
…explaining to her son why Kafka's fantastic fiction is necessary to the project of literary realism. By remaining awake his writing follows "through to the end, to the bitter, unsayable end, whether or not there are traces left on the page." <br />
<br />
It's been said that stories such as A Country Doctor are expanded metaphors but, according to…Aaron Mishara, Kafka's staying awake while others slept had a direct influence on his fiction…no metaphor is involved. Mishara's remarkable paper Kafka, paranoic doubles & the brain claims Kafka suffered from dream-like hallucinations during a sleep-deprived state while writing & his work "provides data about the structure of the human self…documents processes "that are not limited to the individual's experience of self in its historical context, nor the individual's 'autobiographical' memory, but reflect the very structure of human self as a transformative process of self-transcendence"."
kafka  writing  literature  neuroscience  self  metaphor  humanself  human  psychology  sleep  aaronmishara  brain  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Enough is enough: learn to want less - Times Online
"Too much stuff, too much food, too much info: John Naish on how modern life baffles our Stone Age brains into thinking we can never have enough"
johnnaish  psychology  culture  brain  evolution  happiness  infomania  infooverload  obesity  consumerism  consumption  consumers  postconsumerism  materialism  postmaterialism  simplicity  slow  2008  via:theplayethic  infogluttony  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
The New Humanism - NYTimes.com
"Over past few decades, we have tended to define human capital in the narrow way, emphasizing I.Q., degrees, professional skills…all important, obviously, but this research illuminates a range of deeper talents, which span reason & emotion & make a hash of both categories:<br />
Attunement: the ability to enter other minds & learn what they have to offer.<br />
Equipoise: the ability to serenely monitor the movements of one’s own mind & correct for biases & shortcomings.<br />
Metis: the ability to see patterns in the world & derive a gist from complex situations.<br />
Sympathy: the ability to fall into a rhythm with those around you & thrive in groups.<br />
Limerence: This isn’t a talent as much as a motivation. The conscious mind hungers for money & success, but the unconscious mind hungers for those moments of transcendence when the skull line falls away & we are lost in love for another, the challenge of a task or the love of God. Some people seem to experience this drive more powerfully than others."
psychology  culture  collaboration  brain  sociology  davidbrooks  empathy  sympathy  equipoise  metis  limerence  freud  motivation  meaning  values  testing  measurement  education  learning  people  teachers  teaching  schools  parenting  unschooling  deschooling  money  intrinsicmotivation  emotions  rationality  policy  individualism  reason  enlightenment  human  humans  standardizedtesting  grades  grading  relationships  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
DELUSIONS OF GENDER by Cordelia Fine reviewed by Carol Tavris - TLS
"Cordelia Fine has produced a witty and meticulously researched exposé of the sloppy studies that pass for scientific evidence in so many of today's bestselling books on sex differences"
gender  science  brain  psychology  neuroscience  cordeliafine  research  books  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
conscious star stuff: Left Brain vs Right Brain and Other Myths About the Brain
"Last night I ran across Mercedes-Benz’s newest cool-yet-so-cringe-worthy ad campaign.  While the artwork itself is pretty damn awesome, the idea that our personalities and skills are a product of the prevalence of one hemisphere of our brain over another is rubbish. Another popular claim is the one that we only use 10% of our brains, while geniuses like Newton, Einstein, Michaelangelo and Da Vinci used much more.  Yes, this one is rubbish too."
mythbusting  neuroscience  brain  rightbrain  leftbrain  misconceptions  myths  imtiredofthistoo  learning  education  tcsnmy  classideas  advertising  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Superfamous - Folkert Gorter
"Disclaimer: As you read this, you do not really see the pixels, the screen, your hands, and the surroundings, but an internal and three-dimensional image that reproduces them almost exactly and that is constructed by your brain. The photons emitted by your screen strike the retina of your eyes, which transform them into electrochemical information; the optic nerves relay this information to the visual cortex at the back of the head, where a cascade-like network of nerve cells separates the input into categories (form, color, movement, depth, etc.).<br />
<br />
How the brain goes about reuniting these sets of categorized information into a coherent image is still a mystery. This also means that the neurological basis of consciousness is unknown. (source = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cosmic_Serpent )"
design  portfolio  webdesign  neuroscience  folkertgorter  losangeles  perception  images  imageprocessing  eyes  brain  humor  consciousness  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Secrets of a Mind-Gamer - NYTimes.com
"He reasoned that just about anything could be imprinted upon our memories, and kept in good order, simply by constructing a building in the imagination and filling it with imagery of what needed to be recalled. This imagined edifice could then be walked through at any time in the future. Such a building would later come to be called a memory palace."<br />
<br />
"What began as an exercise in participatory journalism became an obsession. True, what I hoped for before I started hadn’t come to pass: these techniques didn’t improve my underlying memory (the “hardware” of “Rhetorica ad Herennium”). I still lost my car keys. And I was hardly a fount of poetry. Even once I was able to squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I seldom memorized the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. It was easier to punch them into my cellphone. The techniques worked; I just didn’t always use them. Why bother when there’s paper, a computer or a cellphone to remember for you?"
memory  psychology  brain  science  joshuafoer  memorization  spatial  evolution  competition  neuroscience  training  simonidesofceos  simonides  rhetoricaadherennium  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Don’t leave learning to the young. Older brains can grow, too. - NYTimes.com
"Whether it is by learning a new language, traveling to a new place, developing a passion for beekeeping or simply thinking about an old problem in a new way, all of us can find ways to stimulate our brains to grow, in the coming year and those to follow. 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."
brain  neuroscience  plasticity  oliversacks  learning  openminded  curiosity  adaptability  flexibility  challenge  growth  2011  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Living in a Dream World: The Role of Daydreaming in Problem-Solving and Creativity: Scientific American
"Daydreams are an inner world where we can rehearse the future and imagine new adventures without risk. Allowing the mind to roam freely can aid creativity—but only if we pay attention to the content of our daydreams.Neuroscientists have identified the “default network”—a web of brain regions that become active when we mentally drift away from the task at hand into our own reveries.When daydreaming turns addictive and compulsive, it can overwhelm normal functioning, impeding relationships and work."
daydreaming  neuroscience  thinking  imagination  attention  cv  brain  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Lost & Found - Radiolab
"In this episode, Radiolab steers its way through a series of stories about getting lost, and asks how our brains, and our hearts, help us find our way back home.

After hearing about a little girl who gets lost in front of her own house, Jad and Robert wonder how we find our way in the world. We meet a woman who has spent her entire life getting lost, and find out how our brains make maps of the world around us. We go to a military base in New Jersey to learn about some amazing feats of navigational wizardry, and are introduced to a group of people in Australia with impeccable orientation. Finally, we turn to a very different kind of lost and found: a love story about running into a terrifying, and unexpected, fork in the road."
radiolab  wayfinding  navigation  human  brain  jonahlehrer  beinglost  classideas  animals  love  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Exploration | Brain Rules |
"The desire to explore never leaves us despite the classrooms and cubicles we are stuffed into. Babies are the model of how we learn—not by passive reaction to the environment but by active testing through observation, hypothesis, experiment, and conclusion. Babies methodically do experiments on objects, for example, to see what they will do.<br />
<br />
Google takes to heart the power of exploration. For 20 percent of their time, employees may go where their mind asks them to go. The proof is in the bottom line: fully 50 percent of new products, including Gmail and Google News, came from “20 percent time.”"

[via: http://twitter.com/adversarian/status/29358290395725824 ]
exploration  google20%  unschooling  deschooling  brainrules  learning  invention  curiosity  tcsnmy  lcproject  openstudio  experimentation  teaching  education  brain  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
The Time Hack — Day 11: Watch paint dry
"But researchers argue that boredom, or taking breaks from the chaos of daily life, may actually be beneficial for you.<br />
<br />
With the use of brain imaging technology, neuroscientists have found that our brains may be highly active when in a state of rest, or when you are “bored”. In fact, the brain only uses 5% less energy in its resting state, compared to moments when a person is actively engaged in an activity.<br />
<br />
Additionally, psychologists argue the slight change in brain activity could have a dramatically positive influence on an individual’s perception of time. Like when you are asleep, time seems to slip by just a bit faster when you’re bored – making constructive, active moments in your day seem that much more dynamic and memorable."
boredom  psychology  brain  time  perception  neuroscience  via:rushtheiceberg  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
What the science of human nature can teach us : The New Yorker
"cognitive revolution…provides different perspective on our lives…emphasizes relative importance of emotion over pure reason, social connections over individual choice, moral intuition over abstract logic, perceptiveness over I.Q…

We’ve spent generation trying to reorganize schools to make them better, but truth is people learn from people they love…

…she communicated distinction btwn mental strength & mental character…stressed importance of collecting conflicting information before making up mind…calibrating certainty level to strength of evidence…enduring uncertainty for long stretches as answer became clear…correcting for biases…

…gifts he was most grateful for had been passed along by teachers & parents inadvertently…official education was mostly forgotten or useless…

There weren’t even words for traits that matter most—having sense of contours of reality, being aware of how things flow, having ability to read situations the way a master seaman reads rhythm of ocean."
psychology  neuroscience  science  brain  culture  toshare  tcsnmy  learning  whatmatters  emotions  emotionalintelligence  eq  davidbrooks  uncertainty  relationships  teaching  education  careers  consciousness  cognitiverevolution  cognition  morality  preceptiveness  cv  observation  connections  connectivism  love  bias  character  certainty  reality  schools  unschooling  deschooling  people  society  flow  experience  racetonowhere  fulfillment  happiness  subconscious  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Anosognosia - Wikipedia [via: http://readingbyeugene.com/2010/12/23/the-top-five-long-reads-of-2010/]
"Anosognosia is a condition in which a person who suffers disability seems unaware of the existence of his or her disability. Unlike denial, which is a defense mechanism, Anasognosia is rooted in physiology (for example, damage to the frontal or parietal lobe due to illness and disease). This may include unawareness of quite dramatic impairments, such as blindness or paralysis. It was first named by neurologist Joseph Babinski in 1914,[1] although relatively little has been discovered about the cause of the condition since its initial identification. The word comes from the Greek words "nosos" disease and "gnosis" knowledge (an- / a- is a negative prefix)."
psychology  neuroscience  health  science  brain  words  classideas  toshare  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Olafur Eliasson Develops New Installation Specially for ARKEN's Most Striking Gallery
"Eliasson personally describes his works as “experiments.” The artist employs light, colour and natural phenomena like fog and waves to test how physical movement and the interaction of body and brain influence our perception of our surroundings. A central idea is to get us, the viewers or users of his works, to examine the conditions of our perceptions through individual experience, enabling us to reassess our concepts of what it means to be and act in the world."
art  olafureliasson  experimentation  science  experience  installation  perception  color  light  fog  waves  body  brain  surroundings  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Children of the Code Video
"Our premise is this: regardless of particular methods of instruction, the better educators and parents understand the challenges involved in learning to read the better they can help children through those challenges. Thus, the mission of the Children of the Code Project is to help educators, parents, and all who care for children develop a deeper first-person understanding of the challenges involved in learning to read."
dyslexia  learning  schools  education  reading  learningdisabilities  emotionaldanger  english  language  history  literacy  behavior  disability  brain  cognition  differentiation  neuroscience  specialed  teaching  disabilities  children  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Dr. Tae — Building A New Culture Of Teaching And Learning on Vimeo
via: http://jorgebarahona.posterous.com/the-need-for-connection-engagement-in-educati
drtae  teaching  learning  education  lcproject  tcsnmy  technology  schools  science  skateboarding  mythbusters  brain  connectivism  culture  wikipedia  math  sharing  unschooling  deschooling  reform  iteration  practice  failure  motivation  scientificresearch  classsize  time  agesegregation  schoolcalendar  persistence  authority  coersion  self-motivation  certification  grades  grading  self-evaluation  intrinsicmotivation  physics  calculus  mastery  cheating  honesty  mentoring  tfa  mythbuster  distributedteaching  credentials  change  gamechanging  coercion  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
The Cognitive Cost Of Expertise | Wired Science | Wired.com
"Now for the bad news: Expertise might also come with a dark side, as all those learned patterns make it harder for us to integrate wholly new knowledge. Consider a recent paper that investigated the mnemonic performance of London taxi drivers. In the world of neuroscience, London cabbies are best known for their demonstration of structural plasticity in the hippocampus, a brain area devoted (in part) to spatial memory. Because the cabbies are required to memorize the entire urban map of London – it’s the most rigorous driving test in the world – their posterior hippocampi swell and expand, leading to permanent changes in the brain. Knowledge shapes matter."
neuroscience  psychology  constraints  jonahlehrer  perception  brain  chess  thinking  science  expertise  memory  plasticity  generalists  specialization  mindchanges  permanence  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Why Doesn't Anyone Pay Attention Anymore? | HASTAC [A response to: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/technology/21brain.html?pagewanted=all]
"We need to distinguish what scientists know about human neurophysiology from our all-too-human discomfort w/ cultural & social change. I've been an English professor for >20 years & have heard how students don't pay attention, can't read a long novel anymore, & are in decline against some unspecified norm of idealized past quite literally every year…we measure our kids' deficits by our glowing & often inflated idea of how much better "we" (our entire generation) were. This is not really a discussion about biology of attention; it's about sociology of change…Virtually all of our current institutions of learning have evolved to prepare youth for industrial age model of work…sit still, don't move, come on time, do this subject then that one in order to pass end-of-grade item-response test. Who wouldn't find video games more stimulating than a typical school day—& more relevant to challenges & obstacles ahead?…mismatch btwn way they are being taught & what they need to learn."
cathydavidson  education  learning  neuroscience  neurophysiology  deschooling  unschooling  technology  distraction  attention  brain  internet  teaching  teens  change  society  generations  idealizedpast  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
This Is Your Brain on Metaphors - NYTimes.com
robertsapolsky  brain  neuroscience  metaphors  psychology  philosophy  linguistics  cognition  cognitive  emotion  intelligence  mind  science  sociology  ai  language  literacy  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Half the Time Everyone's Thinking About Something Else | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune.
"New research finds our minds wander much more frequently than we realize, and our inability to stay focused in the present leads to unhappiness."
happiness  attention  psychology  mind  productivity  work  brain  add  wanderingmind  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Children, Wired: For Better and for Worse — Daphne Bavelier, C. Shawn Green, and Matthew W.G. Dye [.pdf]
"Children encounter technology constantly at home and in school. Television, DVDs, video games, the Internet, and smart phones all play a formative role in children’s development. The term ‘‘technology’ subsumes a large variety of somewhat independent items, and it is no surprise that current research indicates causes for both optimism and concern depending upon the content of the technology, the context in which the technology immerses the user, and the user’s developmental stage. Furthermore, because the field is still in its infancy, results can be surprising: video games designed to be reasonably mindless result in widespread enhancements of various abilities, acting, we will argue, as exemplary learning tools. Counterintuitive outcomes like these, besides being practically relevant, challenge and eventually lead to refinement of theories concerning fundamental principles of brain plasticity and learning."
cognitive  brain  neuroscience  videogames  internet  technology  mobile  phones  smartphones  children  learning  counterintuitive  plasticity  development  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Tetris flashback reduction effect ‘not common to all games’ - University of Oxford
"The computer game Tetris may have a special ability to reduce flashbacks after viewing traumatic images not shared by other types of computer game, Oxford University scientists have discovered in a series of experiments.<br />
<br />
In earlier laboratory work the Oxford team showed that playing Tetris after traumatic events could reduce memory flashbacks in healthy volunteers. These are a laboratory model of the types of intrusive memories associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). <br />
<br />
In this new experimental study the researchers compared the effectiveness of Tetris at reducing flashbacks with Pub Quiz Machine 2008, a word-based quiz game. They found that whilst playing Tetris after viewing traumatic images reduced flashbacks by contrast playing Pub Quiz increased the frequency of flashbacks."
ptsd  psychology  brain  research  technology  tetris  games  flashbacks  memory  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
TPM: The Philosophers’ Magazine | Hacker’s challenge ["Peter Hacker tells James Garvey that neuroscientists are talking nonsense"]
“Philosophy does not contribute to our knowledge of the world we live in after the manner of any of the natural sciences. You can ask any scientist to show you the achievements of science over the past millennium, and they have much to show: libraries full of well-established facts and well-confirmed theories. If you ask a philosopher to produce a handbook of well-established and unchallengeable philosophical truths, there’s nothing to show. I think that is because philosophy is not a quest for knowledge about the world, but rather a quest for understanding the conceptual scheme in terms of which we conceive of the knowledge we achieve about the world. One of the rewards of doing philosophy is a clearer understanding of the way we think about ourselves and about the world we live in, not fresh facts about reality." [via: http://ayjay.tumblr.com/post/1456008129/philosophy-does-not-contribute-to-our-knowledge-of]
psychology  philosophy  consciousness  cognition  brain  neuroscience  mind  nature  peterhacker  wittgenstein  science  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Frank Chimero - How to Have an Idea [The sequence quoted here is like the difference between standardized testing and formative assessment.]
A computer's brain: "You bough socks on Amazon! You'll *love* these sock monkey dolls! (erm, no, I won't …)" [You scored in the top ten percent of kids in the nth grade nationally. You must be smart!]<br />
<br />
Human brain: "You bought socks! This reminds me of this one time that my friend Mitch and I… (illogical, but hopefully meaningful)" [You helped out a classmate. And you mentioned how their predicament reminded you of something you struggled with over the summer, something that was completely unrelated except for the emotional reaction that it got out of you. Watching and helping your classmate gave you a better understanding of yourself and motivated you to share how you have changed. You are a thoughtful and caring person.]<br />
<br />
"Our brains are not computers. Effectiveness is measured by the quality of the illogical connections, not logical ones."
creativity  howto  invention  mindmapping  frankchimero  brain  human  computing  ideas  thinking  tcslj  topost  to  share  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Language Log » Are “heavy media multitaskers” really heavy media multitaskers?
"But in my opinion, it doesn't support it nearly strongly enough. What's at stake here is a set of major choices about social policy and personal lifestyle. If it's really true that modern digital multitasking causes significant cognitive disability and even brain damage, as Matt Richtel claims, then many very serious social and individual changes are urgently needed. Before starting down this path, we need better evidence that there's a real connection between cognitive disability and media multitasking (as opposed to self-reports of media multitasking). We need some evidence that the connection exists in representative samples of the population, not just a couple of dozen Stanford undergraduates enrolled in introductory psychology. And we need some evidence that this connection, if it exists, has a causal component in the multitasking-to-disability direction."
multitasking  psychology  linguistics  internet  language  brain  2010  science  disability  cognition  cognitive  cognitivedisability  media  society  mattrichtel  socialpolicy  via:preoccupations  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
7 Essential Skills You Didn't Learn in College | Magazine
"1. Statistical Literacy: Making sense of today’s data-driven world.<br />
2. Post-State Diplomacy: Power and politics, sans government.<br />
3. Remix Culture: Samples, mashups, and mixes.<br />
4. Applied Cognition: The neuroscience you need.<br />
5. Writing for New Forms: Self-expression in 140 characters.<br />
6. Waste Studies: Understanding end-to-end economics.<br />
7. Domestic Tech: How to use the world as your lab."
arts  culture  education  wired  learning  lifehacks  skills  unschooling  deschooling  statistics  literacy  post-statediplomacy  diplomacy  remix  remixculture  appliedcognition  cognition  neuroscience  writing  twitter  microblogging  waste  saulgriffith  fabbing  science  diy  make  making  rogerebert  nassimtaleb  davidkilcullen  robertrauschenberg  jillboltetaylor  brain  barryschwartz  jonahlehrer  robinsloan  alexismadrigal  newliberalarts  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
The Neurobiology of Evil | Going Mental | Big Think
"Is a person's propensity toward evil a matter of malfunctioning synapses and neurons?<br />
<br />
Michael Stone, professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University and author of “The Anatomy of Evil,” says it is. Ever-more-detailed brain scans are revealing the biological origins of psychological issues in "evil" people, from those who are mildly antisocial to serial murderers.<br />
<br />
Under each brain’s wrinkly cortex lies the limbic system, an evolutionary heirloom controlling emotion and motivation, among other functions. Within this limbic system is the amygdala, an almond-shaped cluster of nuclei that processes our feelings of fear and pleasure.<br />
<br />
Murderers and other violent criminals have been shown to have amygdalae that are smaller or that don’t function properly, explains Stone."
biology  neuroscience  crime  ethics  law  neurobiology  science  brain  medicine  neurology  evil  psychiatry  psychopathy  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
What Is It Like To Be A Baby? | Wired Science | Wired.com
"Gopnik speculates that, while we often assume the inability to pay attention is a failing, a limitation imposed on infants by their mushy frontal lobes, it also confers certain advantages. For starters, it allows young children to figure out the world at an incredibly fast pace. Although babies are born utterly helpless, within a few years they’ve mastered everything from language to complex motor skills such as walking. According to this new view of the baby brain, many of the mental traits that used to seem like developmental shortcomings, such as infants’ inability to focus their attention, are actually crucial assets in the learning process. Because babies notice everything, they’re better able to figure out how it all hangs together. So the next time you look at a baby, remember: They can see more than you.<br />
<br />
Note: Sometimes, of course, it’s helpful for adults to engage in lantern-like attention. See, for instance, this recent post on latent inhibition and creativity."
babies  psychology  brain  children  biology  jonahlehrer  classideas  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Are Distractible People More Creative? | Wired Science | Wired.com
"not enough to simply pay attention to everything—such a deluge of sensation can quickly get confusing. (Kierkegaard referred to this mental state as “drowning in possibility”. Some scientists believe that schizophrenia is characterized by extremely low latent inhibition coupled w/ severe working memory deficits…leads to a mind constantly hijacked by minor distractions.)…We need to let more info in, but we also need to be ruthless about throwing out useless stuff.

People bemoan infinite distractions of web, way we’re constantly being seduced by hyperlinks, unexpected search results, arcane Wikipedia entries. & yes, that’s all true—I just wasted 30 minutes searching for that Kierkegaard quote. (I ended up on a Danish culture website, which led me to a photography collection of Danish modern furniture…) But the problem isn’t distractibility per se—it's distractibility coupled w/ failure to curate our thoughts, to monitor relevancy of whatever is loitering in working memory."
jonahlehrer  neuroscience  attention  distraction  psychology  creativity  research  brain  behavior  intelligence  imaginzation  schizophrenia  memory  internet  online  cv  curation  curating  filtering  forgetting  focus  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Eide Neurolearning Blog: The Most Creative Brains are Slow
"...One study of 65 subjects suggests that creativity prefers to take a slower, more meandering path than intelligence. 'The brain appears to be an efficient superhighway that gets you from Point A to Point B” when it comes to intelligence, Dr. (Rex) Jung explained. “But in the regions of the brain related to creativity, there appears to be lots of little side roads with interesting detours, and meandering little byways.'"
creativity  slow  slowlearning  learning  cv  intelligence  adhd  dyslexia  teaching  schools  unschooling  deschooling  gifted  lcproject  tcsnmy  brain  neuroscience  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
You Are What You Touch: How Tool Use Changes the Brain's Representations of the Body: Scientific American
"A common illustration of just how flexible the sense of our body is comes from changes in the brain’s representation of the body due to tool use. Humans, and some other animals, are able to use tools as additions to the body. When we use a long pole to retrieve an object we couldn’t otherwise reach, the pole becomes, in some sense, an extension of our body. Is this merely a poetic way of speaking, or does the brain actually incorporate the tool into its representation of the body? Studies of monkeys learning to use a rake to obtain distant objects show that this may be more than a mere metaphor. Multisensory brain cells respond both to touch on the hand or visual objects appearing near the hand. When the monkeys used the rake, these cells began to respond to objects appearing anywhere along the length of the tool, suggesting the brain represented the rake as actually being part of the hand."
neuroscience  perception  evolution  psychology  mind  brain  body  senses  technology  tools  humans  bodyrepresentation  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Pixel Poppers: Awesome By Proxy: Addicted to Fake Achievement
"When I learned about performance and mastery orientations, I realized with growing horror just what I'd been doing for most of my life. Going through school as a "gifted" kid, most of the praise I'd received had been of the "Wow, you must be smart!" variety. I had very little ability to follow through or persevere, and my grades tended to be either A's or F's, as I either understood things right away (such as, say, calculus) or gave up on them completely (trigonometry). I had a serious performance orientation. And I was reinforcing it every time I played an RPG…<br />
<br />
Be aware of why you play the games you do the way you do. Be aware of how you use them. We humans are remarkably adept at finding ways to lie to ourselves, and ways to be self-destructive."
2009  via:preoccupations  achievement  rpg  videogames  praise  productivity  psychology  mindset  motivation  goals  education  design  children  games  gaming  gamedesign  entertainment  parenting  performance  learning  brain  habits  deschooling  unschooling  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
What Is It About 20-Somethings? - NYTimes.com [This piece has popped up everywhere.]
"KENISTON CALLED IT youth, Arnett calls it emerging adulthood; whatever it’s called, the delayed transition has been observed for years. …“It’s somewhat terrifying,” writes a 25-year-old…“to think about all the things I’m supposed to be doing in order to ‘get somewhere’ successful: ‘Follow your passions, live your dreams, take risks, network w/ the right people, find mentors, be financially responsible, volunteer, work, think about or go to grad school, fall in love & maintain personal well-being, mental health & nutrition.’ When is there time to just be & enjoy?” Adds a 24-year-old: “…It’s almost as if having a range of limited options would be easier.”

While the complaints of these young people are heartfelt, they are also the complaints of the privileged.

The fact that emerging adulthood is not universal is one of the strongest arguments against Arnett’s claim that it is a new developmental stage. If emerging adulthood is so important, why is it even possible to skip it?"
babyboomers  change  culture  education  future  millennials  greatrecession  generationy  adulthood  2010  life  maturation  society  parenting  parenthood  growingup  adolescence  prolongedadolescence  childlaborlaws  sociology  psychology  us  generation  youth  generations  marriage  careers  highereducation  gradschool  intimacy  isolation  possibility  jobs  work  neuroscience  brain  cognition  puberty  helicopterparents  developmentalpsychology  emergingadulthood  self  autonomy  independence  schooling  schooliness  decisionmaking  uncertainty  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Youngest in class get ADHD label - USATODAY.com
"Nearly 1 million children may have been misdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, not because they have real behavior problems, but because they're the youngest kids in their kindergarten class, researchers say.<br />
<br />
Kids who are the youngest in their grades are 60% more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than the oldest children, according to a study out today from Michigan State University, given exclusively to USA TODAY. A second study, by researchers at North Carolina State University and elsewhere, came to similar conclusions. Both are scheduled for publication in the Journal of Health Economics."
adhd  brain  children  kindergarten  psychology  schools  age  schooling  education  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Weekend Essay by Jonah Lehrer: How Power Affects Us - WSJ.com
"Contrary to the Machiavellian cliché, nice people are more likely to rise to power. Then something strange happens: Authority atrophies the very talents that got them there."
jonahlehrer  machiavelli  authority  corruption  ethics  politics  business  leadership  power  psychology  behavior  brain  management  military  human  markhurd  2010  empathy  transparency  hierarchy  administration  tcsnmy  accessibility  isolation  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
The city is a hypertext
"cognitive scientists have actually begun empirically verifying Simmel's armchair psychology. & whenever I read anything about web rewiring our brains, foretelling immanent disaster, I've always thought, geez, people—we live in cities! Our species has evolved to survive in every climate & environment on dry land. Our brains can handle it!

But I thought of this again when a 2008 Wilson Quarterly article about planner/engineer Hans Monderman, titled "The Traffic Guru," popped up in Twitter. (I can't even remember where it came from. Who knows why older writing just begins to recirculate again? Without warning, it speaks to us more, or differently.)…

In other words, information overload, & the substitution of knowledge for wisdom. Sound familiar?

I'll just say I remain unconvinced. We've largely gotten rid of pop-up ads, flashing banners, & <blink> tag on web. I'm sure can trim back some extra text & lights in our towns & cities. We're versatile creatures. Just give us time."
architecture  cities  timcarmody  kottke  media  perception  transportation  ubicomp  urbanism  psychology  infrastructure  technology  culture  design  environment  history  information  infooverload  adaptability  adaptation  urban  stevejobs  cars  cognition  hansmonderman  resilience  traffic  georgsimmel  1903  2008  2010  shifts  change  luddism  fear  humans  versatitlity  web  internet  online  modernism  modernity  hypertext  attention  brain  research  theory  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
We Are All Talk Radio Hosts | Wired Science | Wired.com
"These studies represent important reevaluation of human reasoning process. Instead of celebrating our analytical powers, these experiments document our foibles & flaws…explore why human reason can so often lead us to believe blatantly irrational things, or why it’s reliably associated w/ mistakes like cognitive dissonance or confirmation bias. And this leads me to a wonderful new paper by Hugo Mercier & Dan Sperber that summons a wide range of evidence to argue that human reason has nothing to do with finding the truth, or locating the best alternative. Instead, it’s all about argumentation.<br />
<br />
…my new metaphor for human reason: our rational faculty isn’t a scientist – it’s a talk radio host. That voice in your head spewing out eloquent reasons to do this or that doesn’t actually know what’s going on, & it’s not particularly adept at getting you nearer to reality. Instead, it only cares about finding reasons that sound good, even if the reasons are actually irrelevant or false."
psychology  ambiguity  arguments  behavior  decisionmaking  rationality  reasoning  neuroscience  brain  choice  science  philosophy  arguing  jonahlehrer  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
WNYC - Radiolab » Words [Seems like some of this research might be reason to delay direct reading instructiont for older ages in US schools.]
"It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But in this hour of Radiolab, we try to do just that. We speak to a woman who taught a 27-year-old man the first words of his life, and we hear a firsthand account of what it feels like to have the language center of your brain wiped out by a stroke. Plus: a group of children invent an entirely new language in Nicaragua in the 1970s." [Accompanying video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0HfwkArpvU]
radiolab  2010  language  words  thinking  children  brain  neuroscience  shakespeare  thought  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
WNYC - Radiolab » Secrets of Success
"Malcolm Gladwell doesn’t like Gifted and Talented Education Programs. And he doesn’t believe that innate ability can fully explain superstar hockey players or billionaire software giants. In this podcast, we listen in on a conversation between Robert and Malcolm recorded at the 92nd St Y. Robert asks Malcolm if he’s a “genius denier,” and Malcolm asks Robert if he’s uncomfortable with the power of love, as they duke it out over questions of luck, talent, passion, and success."
genius  luck  talent  passion  success  love  malcolmgladwell  science  radiolab  brain  desire  leadership  tcsnmy  toshare  topost  mattheweffect  circumstance  coincidence  billgates  advantage  generations  timing  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
« earlier      

related tags

21stcenturylearning ⊕  21stcenturyskills ⊕  aaronmishara ⊕  abrahamtesser ⊕  absolutism ⊕  academia ⊕  accessibility ⊕  accountability ⊕  achievement ⊕  activism ⊕  adaptability ⊕  adaptation ⊕  adaptive ⊕  add ⊕  addiction ⊕  adhd ⊕  administration ⊕  adolescence ⊕  adolescents ⊕  adulthood ⊕  adults ⊕  advantage ⊕  advertising ⊕  advice ⊕  age ⊕  agency ⊕  agesegregation ⊕  aging ⊕  ai ⊕  alaindebotton ⊕  alankay ⊕  alcoholism ⊕  alexismadrigal ⊕  alfiekohn ⊕  alisongopnik ⊕  alleniverson ⊕  allkindsofminds ⊕  alternative ⊕  alzheimers ⊕  amazon ⊕  ambient ⊕  ambiguity ⊕  amputees ⊕  analysis ⊕  anarchism ⊕  andreakuszewski ⊕  andrecodrescu ⊕  andywarhol ⊕  anger ⊕  animals ⊕  animation ⊕  anthonycaro ⊕  anthropology ⊕  antidepressants ⊕  anxiety ⊕  anxiousparenting ⊕  appetite ⊕  apple ⊕  appliedcognition ⊕  architecture ⊕  arguing ⊕  argument ⊕  arguments ⊕  art ⊕  artists ⊕  arts ⊕  arvidguterstam ⊕  asia ⊕  askingquestions ⊕  aspergers ⊕  assessment ⊕  athletics ⊕  attention ⊕  attitude ⊕  attitudes ⊕  audio ⊕  augmentation ⊕  australia ⊕  authority ⊕  autism ⊕  autodidactism ⊕  autodidacts ⊕  automation ⊕  automatons ⊕  autonomy ⊕  awareness ⊕  aynrand ⊕  babies ⊕  babyboomers ⊕  bailout ⊕  barbie ⊕  barryschwartz ⊕  behavior ⊕  beingbarbie ⊕  beinglost ⊕  belesshelpful ⊕  belief ⊕  bias ⊕  biases ⊕  bilingualism ⊕  billgates ⊕  biodiversity ⊕  biofeedback ⊕  biography ⊕  biology ⊕  biomimicry ⊕  bipolardisorder ⊕  birds ⊕  björnvanderhoort ⊕  blame ⊕  blameworthiness ⊕  blind ⊕  blindlyfollowing ⊕  blogging ⊕  blogs ⊕  bluebrain ⊕  bluebrainproject ⊕  blueskythinking ⊕  body ⊕  bodyimage ⊕  bodyrepresentation ⊕  bookfuturism ⊕  books ⊕  boredom ⊕  borges ⊕  boston ⊕  bothumor ⊕  botpoetry ⊕  boys ⊕  brain ⊖  brainbasededucation ⊕  brainchemistry ⊕  brainresearch ⊕  brainrules ⊕  brains ⊕  brainscience ⊕  brainstorming ⊕  brainwashing ⊕  branding ⊕  brianeno ⊕  brucenauman ⊕  bubbles ⊕  buddhism ⊕  business ⊕  calculus ⊕  capitalpunishment ⊕  carbs ⊕  careers ⊕  caroldweck ⊕  cars ⊕  cartography ⊕  cathydavidson ⊕  causeandeffect ⊕  certainty ⊕  certification ⊕  challenge ⊕  chance ⊕  change ⊕  chaostoorder ⊕  character ⊕  cheating ⊕  chemistry ⊕  chess ⊕  childdevelopment ⊕  childhood ⊕  childlaborlaws ⊕  children ⊕  chilren ⊕  china ⊕  choice ⊕  chrisanderson ⊕  christianmarclay ⊕  circumstance ⊕  cities ⊕  class ⊕  classicalmusic ⊕  classideas ⊕  classsize ⊕  claudelevi-strauss ⊕  clayshirky ⊕  clever ⊕  clivethompson ⊕  clivewearing ⊕  closedmindedness ⊕  cloud ⊕  cloudcomputing ⊕  coding ⊕  coercion ⊕  coersion ⊕  coffeehouses ⊕  cognition ⊕  cognitive ⊕  cognitivebias ⊕  cognitivecontrol ⊕  cognitivedisability ⊕  cognitivefluency ⊕  cognitiverevolution ⊕  coincidence ⊕  collaboration ⊕  collaborative ⊕  collective ⊕  collectiveintelligence ⊕  colleges ⊕  color ⊕  colors ⊕  comments ⊕  communication ⊕  community ⊕  comparison ⊕  competency ⊕  competition ⊕  complexity ⊕  composition ⊕  comprehension ⊕  compression ⊕  computer ⊕  computers ⊕  computing ⊕  concentration ⊕  concepts ⊕  concussions ⊕  confidence ⊕  confirmationbias ⊕  conformity ⊕  connectedness ⊕  connections ⊕  connectivism ⊕  connectivity ⊕  consciousawareness ⊕  consciousness ⊕  consequences ⊕  conservatism ⊕  constraints ⊕  constructivism ⊕  consumerism ⊕  consumers ⊕  consumption ⊕  content ⊕  continuouspartialattention ⊕  control ⊕  convergence ⊕  conversation ⊕  cooking ⊕  cooperation ⊕  coordination ⊕  copyright ⊕  cordeliafine ⊕  corporations ⊕  corruption ⊕  counterintuitive ⊕  counting ⊕  craiglambert ⊕  creative ⊕  creativegeneralists ⊕  creativity ⊕  credentials ⊕  credit ⊕  creditcrunch ⊕  cremation ⊕  crime ⊕  criminality ⊕  crisis ⊕  criticalthinking ⊕  criticism ⊕  crossdisciplinary ⊕  crosspollination ⊕  crowdsourcing ⊕  crows ⊕  cryptomnesia ⊕  culture ⊕  curating ⊕  curation ⊕  curiosity ⊕  curriculum ⊕  cv ⊕  cyberpunk ⊕  cyberspace ⊕  danahboyd ⊕  danflavin ⊕  danielkahneman ⊕  danwillingham ⊕  darwin ⊕  data ⊕  database ⊕  datamining ⊕  davehickey ⊕  davidbrooks ⊕  davidbyrne ⊕  davideagleman ⊕  davidkilcullen ⊕  davijohnsonthornton ⊕  daydreaming ⊕  deaf ⊕  death ⊕  debate ⊕  deborahwearing ⊕  debt ⊕  decisionmaking ⊕  decisions ⊕  decisiveness ⊕  decomposition ⊕  defensiveness ⊕  definitions ⊕  defragmentation ⊕  dejavu ⊕  dementia ⊕  democracy ⊕  dependence ⊕  depression ⊕  deschooling ⊕  design ⊕  designandtheelasticmind ⊕  designthinking ⊕  desire ⊕  development ⊕  developmentalpsychology ⊕  dialogue ⊕  diet ⊕  differentiation ⊕  digital ⊕  digitalculture ⊕  digitalnatives ⊕  digitalrevolution ⊕  diplomacy ⊕  directinstruction ⊕  disabilities ⊕  disability ⊕  discipline ⊕  discovery ⊕  disorder ⊕  disorganization ⊕  disruption ⊕  distraction ⊕  distributedteaching ⊕  divergentthinking ⊕  diversity ⊕  diy ⊕  documentary ⊕  dogs ⊕  doing ⊕  donaldjudd ⊕  dontapscott ⊕  doubt ⊕  douglasrushkoff ⊕  drawing ⊕  dreaming ⊕  dreams ⊕  drinking ⊕  dropouts ⊕  drtae ⊕  drugs ⊕  ds ⊕  dunning-krugereffect ⊕  dyslexia ⊕  e-learning ⊕  eames ⊕  earlychildhood ⊕  echolocation ⊕  economics ⊕  ecosystems ⊕  edithackermann ⊕  edmundburke ⊕  edruscha ⊕  education ⊕  edwardtenner ⊕  edwardvogel ⊕  efficiency ⊕  elearning ⊕  electronics ⊕  elitism ⊕  elizabethloftus ⊕  ellsworthkelly ⊕  email ⊕  embodiment ⊕  emergingadulthood ⊕  emotion ⊕  emotionaldanger ⊕  emotionalintelligence ⊕  emotions ⊕  empathy ⊕  endsandmeans ⊕  endurance ⊕  energy ⊕  engagement ⊕  engineering ⊕  english ⊕  enlightenment ⊕  entertainment ⊕  entrepreneurship ⊕  environment ⊕  epilepsy ⊕  episodicmemory ⊕  epistemology ⊕  eq ⊕  equipoise ⊕  errolmorris ⊕  errors ⊕  escalators ⊕  escape ⊕  ethanzuckerman ⊕  ethics ⊕  ethnicity ⊕  ethnography ⊕  etiquette ⊕  evaluation ⊕  events ⊕  everythingbadisgoodforyou ⊕  evesussman ⊕  evil ⊕  evolution ⊕  evolutionarypsychology ⊕  examinedlife ⊕  excitement ⊕  executivefunction ⊕  exercise ⊕  exeriments ⊕  expectation ⊕  experience ⊕  experientiallearning ⊕  experimentation ⊕  experiments ⊕  expert ⊕  expertise ⊕  experts ⊕  explaining ⊕  exploration ⊕  eyes ⊕  eyetracking ⊕  fabbing ⊕  facebook ⊕  faces ⊕  facts ⊕  failure ⊕  faith ⊕  fallacies ⊕  familiarity ⊕  families ⊕  family ⊕  fantasy ⊕  fatigue ⊕  fear ⊕  feedback ⊕  feelings ⊕  femininity ⊕  fiction ⊕  fieldofvision ⊕  film ⊕  filtering ⊕  finance ⊕  firstperson ⊕  firststrikenews ⊕  flashbacks ⊕  flashcards ⊕  flavor ⊕  flavortripping ⊕  flexibility ⊕  flickr ⊕  flow ⊕  flynneffect ⊕  focus ⊕  fog ⊕  folkertgorter ⊕  food ⊕  foreign ⊕  forgetting ⊕  formal ⊕  formaleducation ⊕  forwardthinking ⊕  fourthculture ⊕  frankchimero ⊕  frankgehry ⊕  fredericklawolmstead ⊕  free ⊕  freedom ⊕  freewill ⊕  freud ⊕  fruit ⊕  fulfillment ⊕  fun ⊕  future ⊕  futurism ⊕  gamechanging ⊕  gamedesign ⊕  games ⊕  gaming ⊕  gender ⊕  genecohen ⊕  generalists ⊕  generation ⊕  generations ⊕  generationy ⊕  genes ⊕  genetics ⊕  genius ⊕  genocide ⊕  geoffreymiller ⊕  geolocation ⊕  georgsimmel ⊕  gifted ⊕  giftedprograms ⊕  girls ⊕  glvo ⊕  goals ⊕  good ⊕  google ⊕  google+ ⊕  google20% ⊕  googlevoice ⊕  gps ⊕  grades ⊕  grading ⊕  gradschool ⊕  greatrecession ⊕  grouping ⊕  groups ⊕  growingup ⊕  growth ⊕  gtd ⊕  guidelines ⊕  gutfeelings ⊕  habits ⊕  hacks ⊕  hansmonderman ⊕  happiness ⊕  haptics ⊕  hardware ⊕  has:via ⊕  hatecrimes ⊕  headset ⊕  healing ⊕  health ⊕  healthcare ⊕  hearing ⊕  heidegger ⊕  helicopterparents ⊕  henrikehrsson ⊕  herbertspencer ⊕  heuristics ⊕  hierarchy ⊕  highereducation ⊕  hightechhigh ⊕  hiring ⊕  history ⊕  homeschool ⊕  honesty ⊕  hope ⊕  housing ⊕  howardgardner ⊕  howto ⊕  howwelearn ⊕  howwethink ⊕  howwework ⊕  huamn ⊕  huans ⊕  human ⊕  humanities ⊕  humanity ⊕  humannature ⊕  humans ⊕  humansarestillunmatched ⊕  humanself ⊕  humanskills ⊕  humor ⊕  hunches ⊕  hunger ⊕  hypertext ⊕  hypnosis ⊕  hypomanicepisodes ⊕  hypomaticedge ⊕  ict ⊕  ideageneration ⊕  idealizedpast ⊕  ideas ⊕  ideation ⊕  identity ⊕  idleness ⊕  ignorance ⊕  illusion ⊕  illusions ⊕  illustration ⊕  imageprocessing ⊕  images ⊕  imagination ⊕  imaging ⊕  imaginzation ⊕  impulse-control ⊕  impulsivity ⊕  imtiredofthistoo ⊕  incarceration ⊕  income ⊕  incompetence ⊕  independence ⊕  individualism ⊕  inductivereasoning ⊕  inequality ⊕  infants ⊕  influence ⊕  infodesign ⊕  infogluttony ⊕  infographics ⊕  infomania ⊕  infooverload ⊕  informallearning ⊕  information ⊕  infrastructure ⊕  innovation ⊕  input ⊕  insight ⊕  insomnia ⊕  installation ⊕  instinct ⊕  instruction ⊕  intelligence ⊕  interaction ⊕  interdependence ⊕  interdependency ⊕  interdisciplinary ⊕  interestingness ⊕  interests ⊕  interface ⊕  internet ⊕  interviews ⊕  intimacy ⊕  intrinsicmotivation ⊕  intuition ⊕  invention ⊕  iq ⊕  iraqwar ⊕  isolation ⊕  it ⊕  iteration ⊕  jamesflynn ⊕  janemcgonigal ⊕  japan ⊕  japanese ⊕  jazz ⊕  jeffreyjcohen ⊕  jillboltetaylor ⊕  jmcoetzee ⊕  jobs ⊕  joeandoe ⊕  joeledoux ⊕  johngartner ⊕  johnmedina ⊕  johnnaish ⊕  johnseelybrown ⊕  joiito ⊕  jonahleherer ⊕  jonahlehrer ⊕  joshuafoer ⊕  journalism ⊕  judgement ⊕  junksleep ⊕  jurisprudence ⊕  kafka ⊕  karimnader ⊕  kausiksi ⊕  kevinkelly ⊕  kids ⊕  kindergarten ⊕  knowing ⊕  knowledge ⊕  knowledgesystems ⊕  kottke ⊕  kurtgray ⊕  lajolla ⊕  landscape ⊕  language ⊕  languages ⊕  laughter ⊕  law ⊕  lawrenceweschler ⊕  lcproject ⊕  leadership ⊕  learning ⊕  learning2.0 ⊕  learningdisabilities ⊕  lectures ⊕  leftbrain ⊕  leftright ⊕  legal ⊕  lego ⊕  leisure ⊕  lianegabora ⊕  libraries ⊕  lies ⊕  life ⊕  lifehacks ⊕  lifelogging ⊕  lifestyle ⊕  light ⊕  limerence ⊕  limitations ⊕  linguistics ⊕  listening ⊕  lists ⊕  literacy ⊕  literature ⊕  location ⊕  logic ⊕  loneliness ⊕  longnow ⊕  losangeles ⊕  love ⊕  luck ⊕  luddism ⊕  machiavelli ⊕  maggiejackson ⊕  magic ⊕  magneticforce ⊕  magnets ⊕  make ⊕  making ⊕  malcolmgladwell ⊕  management ⊕  mania ⊕  mapping ⊕  maps ⊕  marcelproust ⊕  marcprensky ⊕  margaretmead ⊕  margielachman ⊕  marjeting ⊕  marketing ⊕  markhurd ⊕  marriage ⊕  maryannewolf ⊕  mastery ⊕  materialism ⊕  math ⊕  mathematics ⊕  mattheweffect ⊕  mattrichtel ⊕  mattwebb ⊕  maturation ⊕  meaning ⊕  meaningmaking ⊕  measurement ⊕  media ⊕  medialab ⊕  medication ⊕  medicine ⊕  meditation ⊕  meetings ⊕  melancholy ⊕  mellevine ⊕  memoirs ⊕  memorization ⊕  memory ⊕  menialtasks ⊕  mentalhealth ⊕  mentalillness ⊕  mentoring ⊕  mentors ⊕  messiness ⊕  metabolism ⊕  metacognition ⊕  metaphor ⊕  metaphors ⊕  metis ⊕  mfa ⊕  michaeljfox ⊕  michaelmichalko ⊕  michaelwesch ⊕  michelgondry ⊕  microblogging ⊕  microsoft ⊕  mihalycsikszentmihalyi ⊕  military ⊕  millennials ⊕  mind ⊕  mindchanges ⊕  mindchanging ⊕  mindhacks ⊕  mindhanging ⊕  mindmapping ⊕  minds ⊕  mindset ⊕  mindstorms ⊕  mirrors ⊕  misconceptions ⊕  misinformation ⊕  misleading ⊕  mistakes ⊕  mit ⊕  mnemonics ⊕  mobile ⊕  modernism ⊕  modernity ⊕  moma ⊕  monalisa ⊕  money ⊕  mood ⊕  moods ⊕  moodswings ⊕  mooreslaw ⊕  morality ⊕  morals ⊕  motivation ⊕  movement ⊕  mozareffect ⊕  mozart ⊕  multidisciplinary ⊕  multimedia ⊕  multiplicity ⊕  multiplicityhypothesis ⊕  multitasking ⊕  murder ⊕  muscles ⊕  museums ⊕  music ⊕  mutuality ⊕  mylifebits ⊕  mythbuster ⊕  mythbusters ⊕  mythbusting ⊕  myths ⊕  names ⊕  naming ⊕  nanotechnology ⊕  naps ⊕  narrative ⊕  nassimtaleb ⊕  nature ⊕  naturenurture ⊕  navigation ⊕  nbc ⊕  nbclearn ⊕  negativity ⊕  netgen ⊕  networks ⊕  networktheory ⊕  neurobiology ⊕  neurolaw ⊕  neurology ⊕  neurophysiology ⊕  neuroscience ⊕  neurotechnology ⊕  newliberalarts ⊕  newmedia ⊕  news ⊕  nicholascarr ⊕  nicholasnegroponte ⊕  nightowls ⊕  nintendo ⊕  nintendods ⊕  nirvana ⊕  noamchomsky ⊕  noise ⊕  normal ⊕  notetaking ⊕  noticing ⊕  npr ⊕  numbers ⊕  nurture ⊕  nutrition ⊕  nyc ⊕  oakestwins ⊕  obesity ⊕  objects ⊕  observation ⊕  obsession ⊕  odyshape ⊕  olafureliasson ⊕  oliversacks ⊕  olpc ⊕  olympics ⊕  onemachine ⊕  online ⊕  openminded ⊕  openstudio ⊕  organization ⊕  organizations ⊕  osamabinladen ⊕  outsiderart ⊕  overeating ⊕  overload ⊕  overscheduling ⊕  painting ⊕  paolaantonelli ⊕  paradox ⊕  paralysis ⊕  parenthood ⊕  parenting ⊕  passion ⊕  pathologies ⊕  pathology ⊕  patriciacohen ⊕  patterns ⊕  pauladams ⊕  paulbach-y-rita ⊕  paulbloom ⊕  pedagogy ⊕  peergroups ⊕  peers ⊕  people ⊕  perception ⊕  performance ⊕  permanence ⊕  perseverance ⊕  persistence ⊕  personal ⊕  personalgrowth ⊕  personalinformatics ⊕  personality ⊕  perspective ⊕  persuasion ⊕  peterhacker ⊕  phantomlimbpain ⊕  phantomlimbs ⊕  pharmaceuticals ⊕  pharmacology ⊕  philosophy ⊕  phones ⊕  photography ⊕  photoshop ⊕  physical ⊕  physics ⊕  physiology ⊕  piaget ⊕  piercehoward ⊕  placebos ⊕  plagiarism ⊕  planning ⊕  plants ⊕  plasticity ⊕  plato ⊕  play ⊕  playethic ⊕  playtheory ⊕  pleasure ⊕  pobronson ⊕  poetry ⊕  policy ⊕  politicalscience ⊕  politics ⊕  portfolio ⊕  possibility ⊕  post-statediplomacy ⊕  postconsumerism ⊕  postmaterialism ⊕  potatoes ⊕  poverty ⊕  power ⊕  powerpoint ⊕  practice ⊕  praise ⊕  preceptiveness ⊕  prediction ⊕  predictions ⊕  pregnancy ⊕  presentations ⊕  pretend ⊕  pretending ⊕  print ⊕  privacy ⊕  probability ⊕  problemsolving ⊕  process ⊕  processing ⊕  productivity ⊕  professionaldevelopment ⊕  profile ⊕  programming ⊕  progress ⊕  progressive ⊕  projectmanagement ⊕  projects ⊕  prolongedadolescence ⊕  propaganda ⊕  proprioception ⊕  prosopagnosia ⊕  proust ⊕  proustwasaneuroscientist ⊕  pscs ⊕  psychiatry ⊕  psychocybernetics ⊕  psychology ⊕  psychopathology ⊕  psychopathy ⊕  ptsd ⊕  puberty ⊕  public ⊕  pugetsoundcommunityschool ⊕  punishment ⊕  purposefuldeception ⊕  quantifiedself ⊕  questioning ⊕  questions ⊕  quitting ⊕  race ⊕  racetonowhere ⊕  racism ⊕  radicalism ⊕  radiolab ⊕  randomness ⊕  raphkoster ⊕  rationality ⊕  rats ⊕  reading ⊕  reality ⊕  realitytv ⊕  reason ⊕  reasoning ⊕  recall ⊕  recession ⊕  recidivism ⊕  recognition ⊕  recovery ⊕  reference ⊕  reflection ⊕  reform ⊕  rehabilitation ⊕  relationships ⊕  relativism ⊕  relevance ⊕  religion ⊕  rem ⊕  remembering ⊕  remix ⊕  remixculture ⊕  reporting ⊕  research ⊕  resilience ⊕  restraint ⊕  rethinking ⊕  retractions ⊕  reverse-engineering ⊕  reviews ⊕  rewards ⊕  rhetoric ⊕  rhetoricaadherennium ⊕  rhythm ⊕  richardfeynman ⊕  richardserra ⊕  rightbrain ⊕  rights ⊕  risk ⊕  risktaking ⊕  robertrauschenberg ⊕  robertsapolsky ⊕  robinsloan ⊕  robotics ⊕  robots ⊕  rogerebert ⊕  rootcauses ⊕  rpg ⊕  rudolfsteiner ⊕  rulebreaking ⊕  rulefollowing ⊕  rules ⊕  rural ⊕  ryanandtrevoroakes ⊕  ryanoakes ⊕  safety ⊕  salkinstitute ⊕  sandiego ⊕  saulgriffith ⊕  schedule ⊕  scheduling ⊕  schizophrenia ⊕  schoolcalendar ⊕  schooldesign ⊕  schooliness ⊕  schooling ⊕  schools ⊕  science ⊕  scientificresearch ⊕  sculpture ⊕  search ⊕  secondlife ⊕  security ⊕  seed ⊕  self ⊕  self-deception ⊕  self-directedlearning ⊕  self-esteem ⊕  self-evaluation ⊕  self-improvement ⊕  self-motivation ⊕  self-regulation ⊕  self-service ⊕  selfawareness ⊕  selffulfillingprophesies ⊕  selfimage ⊕  semanticweb ⊕  sensemaking ⊕  senses ⊕  sensory ⊕  sensoryprocessingdysfunction ⊕  serendipity ⊕  serviceeconomy ⊕  services ⊕  sexualselection ⊕  seymourpapert ⊕  shadowchores ⊕  shadowwork ⊕  shakespeare ⊕  share ⊕  sharing ⊕  sherryturkle ⊕  shifts ⊕  sholi ⊕  sight ⊕  simonides ⊕  simonidesofceos ⊕  simplicity ⊕  singing ⊕  single ⊕  singletasking ⊕  singularity ⊕  size ⊕  skateboarding ⊕  skepticism ⊕  skeptics ⊕  skills ⊕  sl ⊕  sleep ⊕  sleepdeprivation ⊕  sleeping ⊕  slow ⊕  slowlearning ⊕  smartphones ⊕  smells ⊕  snarkmarket ⊕  social ⊕  socialanimals ⊕  socialemotionallearning ⊕  socialinteraction ⊕  socialmedia ⊕  socialnetworking ⊕  socialnetworks ⊕  socialpolicy ⊕  socialscience ⊕  socialsoftware ⊕  socialstudies ⊕  society ⊕  sociology ⊕  socrates ⊕  software ⊕  sollewitt ⊕  somnambulism ⊕  sound ⊕  sounds ⊕  spatial ⊕  specialed ⊕  specialists ⊕  specialization ⊕  species ⊕  speech ⊕  spimes ⊕  sports ⊕  squeak ⊕  stairs ⊕  standardizedtesting ⊕  stanislasdehaene ⊕  startups ⊕  statistics ⊕  stephendownes ⊕  stephenjaygould ⊕  stevejobs ⊕  stevemiranda ⊕  stevenjohnson ⊕  stevenpinker ⊕  stimulation ⊕  storage ⊕  stories ⊕  storyofmylife ⊕  storytelling ⊕  strangers ⊕  strategy ⊕  stress ⊕  stroke ⊕  students ⊕  study ⊕  stumbleduponwhilesearching ⊕  subconscious ⊕  subjectivity ⊕  substitution ⊕  success ⊕  sudio ⊕  sugar ⊕  suicide ⊕  summarization ⊕  superbetter ⊕  superheroes ⊕  supermemo ⊕  superpowers ⊕  surf ⊕  surfing ⊕  surroundings ⊕  surveillance ⊕  sympathy ⊕  synesthesia ⊕  systems ⊕  tactile ⊕  tagging ⊕  talent ⊕  tangible ⊕  taste ⊕  tcslj ⊕  tcsnmy ⊕  teachers ⊕  teaching ⊕  teamwork ⊕  technique ⊕  technium ⊕  technology ⊕  ted ⊕  teenagers ⊕  teens ⊕  television ⊕  testing ⊕  tetris ⊕  text ⊕  texting ⊕  tfa ⊕  theatlantic ⊕  theory ⊕  theschooloflife ⊕  thinking ⊕  thirdperson ⊕  thought ⊕  thoughts ⊕  timcarmody ⊕  time ⊕  timing ⊕  tips ⊕  to ⊕  todo ⊕  tongues ⊕  tools ⊕  topography ⊕  topost ⊕  toshare ⊕  tourettes ⊕  tracking ⊕  traffic ⊕  training ⊕  transhumanism ⊕  translation ⊕  transparency ⊕  transportation ⊕  travel ⊕  trends ⊕  trevoroakes ⊕  tricks ⊕  trust ⊕  truth ⊕  tutorials ⊕  tv ⊕  twitter ⊕  tylercowen ⊕  typography ⊕  ubicomp ⊕  ubiquitous ⊕  ucsd ⊕  uncertainty ⊕  understanding ⊕  undertsanding ⊕  unintendedconsequences ⊕  universities ⊕  unlearning ⊕  unschooling ⊕  upsidedown ⊕  urban ⊕  urbanism ⊕  urbanplanning ⊕  urgency ⊕  us ⊕  usda ⊕  vaccines ⊕  valkee ⊕  values ⊕  versatitlity ⊕  via:adamgreenfield ⊕  via:cervus ⊕  via:grahamje ⊕  via:hrheingold ⊕  via:kottke ⊕  via:lukeneff ⊕  via:migurski ⊕  via:noon ⊕  via:preoccupations ⊕  via:rodcorp ⊕  via:rushtheiceberg ⊕  via:theplayethic ⊕  video ⊕  videogames ⊕  videos ⊕  view ⊕  vilayanurramachandran ⊕  vindication ⊕  violence ⊕  virtualreality ⊕  vision ⊕  visual ⊕  visualization ⊕  vocabulary ⊕  voice ⊕  vulnerabilities ⊕  wanderingmind ⊕  war ⊕  waste ⊕  waves ⊕  wayfinding ⊕  wealth ⊕  web ⊕  webdesign ⊕  weight ⊕  well-being ⊕  whales ⊕  whatmatters ⊕  wikipedia ⊕  will ⊕  williamosler ⊕  willpower ⊕  wine ⊕  wired ⊕  wittgenstein ⊕  women ⊕  words ⊕  work ⊕  workplace ⊕  writing ⊕  wrong ⊕  yokosakaoohama ⊕  yourbrainonschool ⊕  youth ⊕  youtube ⊕  zoom ⊕  _insomnia ⊕ 

Copy this bookmark:



description:


tags: