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Posted by: Beau7890 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Boredom is more than a mere flagging of interest or a precursor to mischief. Some experts say that people tune things out for good reasons ...
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Neuroscience, National Security & the “War on Terror” »
Posted by: populist 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Operating with little ethical oversight, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been tapping cutting-edge advances in neuroscience, computers and robotics in a quest ...
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Our brains react differently to artificial vs human intelligence »
Posted by: Wil 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Ever since Deep Blue trounced Garry Kasparov at chess in 1996, it's been almost inevitable that we will find ourselves interacting with increasingly intelligent ...
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A new paradigm in cognitive science »
Posted by: stelman 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
I stumbled upon this article the other day. It comments on some articles that criticize the current method of cognitive research. The current trend in ...
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Can't Find Things? Your Memory May Be Too Good »
Posted by: Jordan 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Can't figure out where you put the remote? Your problem may not be a bad memory; it may be one that's too good ...
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The neurobiology of risk: the ventral striatum »
Posted by: ivanpw 3 months ago in Business & Finance
The ventral striatum is recently been linked to reward, decisions, and risk, and as a result is getting much more press than it used to ...
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5 Ways our Brain Works to Wreck our Finances »
Posted by: ivanpw 3 months ago in Business & Finance
This article show how our brain works to wreck finances
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BrainTech and Sustainable Brains »
Posted by: Vlad55 2 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
So, I may both agree and disagree with John Doerr: yes, clean tech should be bigger than the Internet, and perhaps the biggest economic opportunity ...
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Starbucks' Secret Sports Supplement »
Posted by: sportpsychrob 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Sports
For an athlete, it seems to good to be true. A "sports supplement" that increases alertness, concentration, reaction time and focus while decreasing muscle fatigue ...
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Dealing with the informational overflow »
Posted by: stelman 1 month, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Lately I have to deal with a lot of things in my life. So, I have been thinking about the relationship between information and the ...
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Money and Minds »
Posted by: ivanpw 3 months ago in Business & Finance
This blog is about your brain, and how it affects your money decisions. We write about personal finance, investing, and other financial topics from the ...
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The neurophysiology of gambling »
Posted by: ivanpw 3 months ago in Business & Finance
This excellent post on the neuroscience of gambling describes a series of experiments done on monkeys that show that dopamine neurons learn when to expect ...
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Addictions - Retail Therapy »
Posted by: ivanpw 3 months ago in Business & Finance
We’ve discussed the ventral striatum in this blog before. It’s a component of the brain involved in processing rewards in the brain. When ...
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The neurobiology of risk: the posterior cingulate cortex »
Posted by: ivanpw 3 months ago in Business & Finance
Decision-making and risk are important parts of the animal world; any organism needs to know whether a particular activity is going to get it killed ...
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Fairness is emotionally rewarding, a study finds »
Posted by: ivanpw 3 months ago in Business & Finance
A research was done at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior to measure how our brains react to financial situations that would ...
