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The DANA Foundation – Your gateway to information about the brain and brain...
Your gateway to information about the brain and brain research is right here The DANA Foundation Every year The DANA Foundation hosts “Brain Awareness Week”, of which my Cognitive Neuroscience...
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How the shape of your brain shows what kind of personality you have
I recently read an article about how research is showing there may be a way to determine what kind of personality you have (or will have in the case of infants) by the shape of your brain. They are...
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Can you smell a memory?
Does the smell of cookies remind you of summers in your grandmother’s kitchen? A particular perfume of an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend? The smell of s’mores and firewood of Christmas time at home with...
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How rooms and architecture affect mood and creativity
There have been a number of strides towards a more rigorously scientific approach to design and architecture in the past few decades. A number of articles and research have been published on studies...
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the number one way to improve your memory?
Picture this: You’re on a train, metro or bus and you sneak a glance at the people around you. There’s a women working on a Sudoku puzzle and a man hammering away at his crossword puzzle. Typical signs...
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Recommended Reading – Deep Survival
DEEP SURVIVAL: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why This book is just packed with neuroscience and psychology research on cognition and how it relates to the way we process our environment – specifically in...
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Recommended Reading – Emotional Design
EMOTIONAL DESIGN Terrific book on the psychology and emotion that governs why we love or hate the things we do. For instance, why do we love a trinket that may not have any functional value but that is...
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Can Hands Talk?
Turns out the Italians know what they’re doing with all that hand gesturing. In an article featured in a February issue of Journal of Experimental Psychology researchers from the University of...
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Tasting colors & smelling numbers?
The first time I heard about the concept I was somewhat skeptical. How could someone see colors when they heard numbers or how could they “taste” a letter? But that’s exactly what some people claim...
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Play BEFORE Work, for pre-schoolers that is
I don’t think anyone would argue that education is a good thing. It ought to begin early, giving head-start advantages. But how early? Researchers at MIT are looking into the cognitive and behavioral...
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