https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=439 2022-07-04T07:02:29Z https://www.snipit.org/images/scissors.gif https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=439 Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: Channels > cognition and art > brain-stuff ‘I can’t remember anything’ is a common complaint ... it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do... and distractions stop us forming new memories? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1653248 https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/jul/03/is-your-smartphone-ruining-your-memory-the-rise-of-digital-amenesia?CMP=share_btn_tw 2022-07-04T07:02:29Z Illustration of neuron and dendrites. Dendrites receive ... stimulation (via synapses, not shown here) from neurons ... and propagate that stimulation to the neuron cell body (... sends electrochemical stimulation via an axon to communi... Dendrites h https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1598326 http://www.kurzweilai.net/brain-has-more-than-100-times-higher-computational-capacity-than-previously-thought-say-ucla-scientists?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=84574ad2b2-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_147a5a48c1-84574ad2b2 2017-03-13T18:47:54Z rain responds more strongly to information about unfavou... groups, offering clues as to how prejudice emerges and s... shows https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1583885 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/01/human-brain-is-predisposed-to-negative-stereotypes-new-study-suggests 2016-11-02T10:32:25Z IBM Research in Zurich has created the world's first art... stochastic phase-change neurons. IBM has already created... 500 of these artificial neurons and used them to process... brain-like (neuromorphic) way. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1574523 http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/ibm-phase-change-neurons/ 2016-08-04T12:25:31Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1561319 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0105225 2015-08-18T22:12:57Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1479211 http://thelongandshort.org/issues/season-four/head-teachers-using-neuroscience-for-education.html 2015-06-15T12:24:04Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1465117 http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/244376?utm_content=buffer85c47&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer 2015-04-07T19:04:25Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1465116 http://www.futurity.org/brain-neuron-data-website-889112/?utm_content=buffer81c9d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer 2015-04-07T19:02:45Z On Sept. 13, 1848, at around 4:30 p.m., the time of day ... start wandering, a railroad foreman named Phineas Gage f... with gunpowder and turned his head to check on his men. ... normal moment of his life. Other victims in the annals of medicine are a https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1363623 http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/05/phineas_gage_neuroscience_case_true_story_of_famous_frontal_lobe_patient.html 2014-05-08T23:43:11Z Researchers at Colorado College found students who were ... good night’s sleep, even if they did not, performed be... and memory skill tests than those who had been informed ... badly. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1341540 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/just-thinking-you-had-a-good-nights-sleep-can-improve-cognitive-skills-9079815.html 2014-02-17T10:03:12Z A new research paper published today in the Proceedings ... of Sciences demonstrates that men and women's brains con... different which, according to the authors, gives a "pote... The study—one the largest of its kind with 949 individ ... Using the d https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1247465 http://sploid.gizmodo.com/newly-discovered-gender-neuronal-differences-explain-so-1475665938?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow 2013-12-06T11:02:01Z Enlarge image Daniel Berger, a researcher at MIT, traced these neurons ... EyeWire People can get pretty addicted to computer games. By som ... Right now I'm at the novice level of a game called EyeWi ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1024962 http://www.npr.org/2013/03/05/173435599/wanna-play-computer-gamers-help-push-frontier-of-brain-research 2013-03-14T07:07:59Z Neanderthals are a closely related species of human that... from around 250,000 years ago. They coexisted and intera... our species until they went extinct about 28,000 years a... The research team explored the idea that the ancestor of ... The humans https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1024560 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21759233 2013-03-13T09:37:26Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1000170 http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v16/n2/full/nn.3304.html 2013-01-31T13:37:39Z We tend to think of reason and emotion as being two diff... it turns out that there may not be a choice between the ... Relationships between general and emotional intelligence CT scan showing overlaps of different general and em ... Differe https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1000025 http://www.gizmag.com/emotional-intelligence-brain-mapped/25980/ 2013-01-31T09:30:25Z Researchers have been pursuing the development of such a... decades, in some cases spending hundreds of millions of ... engineering challenges. One device designed to help peop... condition is awaiting U.S. regulatory approval. It is kn... Second Sigh https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=999464 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324539304578264052022342798.html?mod=e2fb 2013-01-30T13:00:51Z In certain situations animals can spontaneously solve pr... Animals rarely solve problems spontaneously, yet certain ... The University of Auckland research shows that such prob ... “Crows and parrots have long been known to solve the s ... ... ings of https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=887890 http://sciencealert.com.au/news-nz/20122810-23822-2.html 2012-10-30T14:08:53Z A network of brain regions which is activated during int... experience overlaps with the brain network associated wi... contemplation and self-assessment, New York University r... found. Their study sheds new light on the nature of the ... experience, https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=761595 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120416095104.htm 2012-04-20T19:43:38Z In Western cultures, girls consistently prefer pink, boy... Which academic camp lays claim to this difference? Past ... a case, in terms of the evolutionary advantage of findin... females might be biologically predisposed to prefer pink... colours. Bu https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=529935 http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2011/09/at-what-age-do-girls-prefer-pink.html 2011-09-05T18:39:37Z The device consists of a tiny camera and transmitter mou... an implanted receiver, and an electrode-studded array th... the retina with a microtack the width of a human hair. A... The camera on the glasses captures an image and sends th ... Second Sigh https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=327453 http://www.2-sight.com/ 2011-02-14T14:13:30Z A bionic eye implant has been shown to give blind men an... The technology is quite incredible. A three millimetre s ... However, as impressive as the technology is, the impact ... The results have been tagged as astonishing by eye surge ... ... suffere https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=238112 http://www.gadgetsandgizmos.org/the-bionic-eye-that-helps-the-blind-see-again/ 2010-11-04T08:29:37Z Shadows are the topic of a book recently reviewed on the... website (The Shadow Club by Roberto Casati) - it's nothi... book, but here's a stunning optical illusion featuring s... This optical illusion is reproduced with the permission ... This is sim https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=217215 http://www.popularscience.co.uk/features/feat16.htm 2010-10-08T16:34:55Z June 11, 2010, 1:24 pm The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains By NICK BILTON brain scan while on the computerCharles Baldwin for The ... ... and conversation, is the quintessential place to learn. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=168945 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/in-defense-of-computers-the-internet-and-our-brains/ 2010-06-18T09:30:28Z Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have ... the mind works. Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought ... Both groups lack important receptors used to filter and ... It could be this uninhibited processing that allows crea https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=163671 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/10154775.stm 2010-05-29T16:22:18Z On May 21st and 22nd 2007, the Krasnow Institute for Adv... George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, hosted a Symposi... Ten eminent neuroscientists signed the letter in Science ... The "Decade of the Brain" [2], has quite naturally led t ... The "Decade https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=132242 http://dom2009.de/html/about.html 2009-12-27T09:54:00Z ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2009) — A diet high in fat and ... carbohydrates, known as the "ketogenic" diet, quickens r... paralyzed rats after spinal cord injury, according to ne... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=123847 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091020162237.htm 2009-11-07T09:43:47Z Functional magnetic resonance imaging of men and women u... neuroscientists how their brains differed in response to... situations. In men, increased blood flow to the left orb... suggested activation of the "fight or flight" response. ... activated t https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=123846 http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/0403-men_are_from_mars.htm 2009-11-07T09:43:02Z ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2009) — There are areas in the b... arms, legs, and various parts of our bodies. The way the... distributed throughout the brain are known as "body maps... some significant differences in these maps between left-... people. For https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=123845 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091104152304.htm 2009-11-07T09:39:37Z In 2007 in my lab at Berkeley, Tamar Kushnir and I disco... preschoolers can use probabilities to learn how things w... lets them imagine new possibilities. We put a yellow blo... Then we gave the children the blocks and asked them to l ... We also did https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=111163 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/opinion/16gopnik.html 2009-08-16T09:26:26Z Thought control: it's the computer world's latest game plan undefined Chris Ayres in Los Angeles Click here for a slideshow of the history of computers ... eo game,” he told The Times in an exclusive interview. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=54449 http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/gadgets_and_gaming/article4354041.ece 2008-08-05T17:19:13Z Ericsson, K. A., & Kintsch, W. (1995). Long-term working... Psychological Review, 102, 211-245. Author of the summary: David Zach Hambrick, 1998, gt8781 ... The sine qua non of skilled cognitive performance is the ... Working memory (WM) refers to the si https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=26289 http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~jimmyd/summaries/ericsson1995.html 2008-01-13T09:20:11Z Aristotle defined our five senses over two and a half th... But in fact we have many more. In this five part series,... delves into the Extra Senses that we take for granted. H... they work and meets some remarkable people who experienc... a unique wa https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=18606 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/extrasenses.shtml 2007-11-13T06:49:57Z Contextualizing Concepts Liane Gabora and Diederik Aerts ... develop a formal description of the contextual manner in which concepts are evoked, used, and combined to generate meaning. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=11375 http://cogprints.org/2139/00/flairs.html 2007-08-21T09:27:42Z Book review THE FIRST IDEA: HOW SYMBOLS, LANGUAGE AND INTELLIGENCE E ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=11373 http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/128/7/1737?etoc 2007-08-21T09:20:49Z I work on higher-order cognitive operations that disting ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=3207 http://markturner.org/ 2007-01-06T11:51:21Z I’m fascinated by consciousness, I’ve studied it for... and I have some things to say about it. My name is Robin Faichney and I’m a philosopher. (I’ ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=3196 http://www.robinfaichney.org/?page_id=2 2007-01-04T21:17:41Z [6] The notion is that the population of China, equipped... radios plus a system of satellites for broadcasting info... once, could play the role of an artificial brain with th... input-output capacity as an ordinary human one. See Bloc... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=3195 http://www.imprint.co.uk/cottrell.html#[6] 2007-01-04T21:17:15Z Paul Churchland, in his recent “Chimerical Colors: Som... from Cognitive Neuroscience” (2005), describes very od... experiences that are predicted by a neural model of chro... processing. In brief, the differential fatiguing and rec... processing https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=3194 http://www.petemandik.com/blog/2006/11/17/hyperbolic-mary/ 2007-01-04T20:57:11Z Cognitive Systems: Information Processing Meets Brain Sc... Authors: Richard G M Morris, Lionel Tarassenko and Micha ... Publisher: Academic Press Inc (London) Ltd ISBN: 0120885662 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=2348 http://www.foresight.gov.uk/previous_projects/cognitive_systems/Reports_and_Publications/General_Reports/Cognitive%20Systems%20Book/Book.htm?action=eipndocview&doc=840 2006-10-17T09:06:46Z Research Reviews Making connections Life scientists and physical scientists face many of the ... This was an important clue in deciding the shape of the ... The project commissioned a series of Research Reviews so ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=2347 http://www.foresight.gov.uk/Previous_Projects/Cognitive_Systems/Reports_and_Publications/Research_Reviews/index.html 2006-10-17T09:04:43Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1959 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenalism 2006-08-18T08:21:19Z The team's findings suggest that Wallis’s brain had, v... developed new pathways and completely novel anatomical s... re-establish functional connections, compensating for th... They found that new axons – the branches that connect ... Surprisingl https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1649 http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9474-rewired-brain-revives-patient-after-19-years.html 2006-07-08T12:40:44Z For 32 years, Paul Ekman was a Professor of Psychology i... Psychiatry at the University of California at San Franci... his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago... University. He received his Ph.D. from Adelphi Universit... His interes https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1606 http://www.paulekman.com/paulekman_biography.php 2006-07-01T15:19:03Z Psychological sleuths Detecting deception Some research links lying with such facial and bodily cu ... BY RACHEL ADELSON https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1604 http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug04/detecting.html 2006-07-01T14:49:46Z JIM HORNE Jim Horne is Professor of Psychophysiology and Director ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1590 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/midweek.shtml 2006-06-29T17:28:55Z Ian Sample talks to the scientists teasing out why we st... pleasurable experiences - and why, when we have it all, ... for more excitement https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1482 http://www.biopsychiatry.com/pleasure/index.html 2006-05-30T22:56:37Z Welcome ... Serendip is a gathering place for people w ... instructions are always ambigu ... ... and in how one makes sense of life. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1443 http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/ 2006-05-10T11:37:35Z In linguistics, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (SWH) state... systematic relationship between the grammatical categori... a person speaks and how that person both understands the... in it. Although it has come to be known as the Sapir–W... it rather w https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1414 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir–Whorf_hypothesis 2006-05-02T20:59:48Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=968 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/index.html 2006-02-05T19:56:19Z Number of Neurons in a Human Brain The Physics Factbook%u2122 Edited by Glenn Elert -- Written by his students An educational, Fair Use website ... brain has more than 100 billion neurons" > 100 billion https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=441 http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2002/AniciaNdabahaliye2.shtml 2005-11-17T16:24:42Z The total information processing activity of the brain i... because the current knowledge in this area is fragmentar... possible to get a general picture of the electronic puls... activity within a couple of orders of magnitude. The act... is equivale https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=440 http://vadim.www.media.mit.edu/MAS862/Project.html 2005-11-17T16:24:02Z Estimates for the human brain range between 10 billion a... imprecision in these estimates is due almost entirely to... the number of granule cells in the cerebellum, a problem... traced back to a study by Braitenberg & Atwood (1958). M... [A revisio https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=438 http://www.nervenet.org/papers/NUMBER_REV_1988.html 2005-11-17T16:21:41Z