Science Daily gets primitive with research into how the oldest parts of our brains help us learn:
… Read the rest “Lizard-brain learning.”Many of the mundane skills that we apply every day, such as buttoning up a shirt or playing
Medical News Today makes me feel uncomfortable… oh, no, wait, it’s a GOOD thing!… about the way magnets can alter our moral judgement:
… Read the rest “Magnets and morality”Ten years ago [Dr Rebecca Saxe,
The Corante blog is taking a second look at brain research that could turn Alzheimer’s thinking on its head:
… Read the rest “Is Alzheimer’s a yeast infection? Are the plaques the *cure*?”A recent paper in PLoS One makes the case that beta-amyloid, the protein
Princeton University researchers have found the bitter truth about HFCS:
… Read the rest “Corn syrup not so sweet.”The first study showed that male rats given water sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup in addition to a standard
Science Daily takes a close look at how psychopaths’ brains are shaped by rewards:
… Read the rest “Last one alive wins.”Previous research on psychopathy has focused on what these individuals lack — fear, empathy
UC Berkley has me hankering for some shut-eye… for my brain’s sake:
… Read the rest “The wise nap.”In the recent UC Berkeley sleep study, 39 healthy young adults were divided into two groups — nap and no-nap.
The Wall Street Journal reveals the lengths to which modern corporations go to make hot soup seem even homier:
… Read the rest “Hypno-Soup!”Campbell began dissecting its condensed-soup marketing that summer, around
Neurologists get Sonic Youth. That’s what I think after reading Jonah Lehrer’s ScienceBlogs entry about the way music works in the brain:
… Read the rest “Frame the deviance.”The experiment was more compelling.
DiscoveryNews says what I was just thinking. I mean, they’ve got a machine that can do that:
… Read the rest “On the tip of my tongue….”The first “words” detected from the subject’s brain were three vowel
PhysOrg reveals a new discovery (using old tools) of a single brain protein that does two very different things to help us think:
… Read the rest “One tool, two brain functions.”Details of the observation in lab mice, published Dec. 24
SONG: “Dear Winter” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Humans Have Hidden Sensory System”, LiveScience… Read the rest “SONG: Dear Winter.”
Chasing the links for that Levitin interview yesterday, I found this call for volunteers in a musical experiment:
… Read the rest “Music Evolution: Science wants YOUR ears!”MacCullum’s computer program creates a randomly generated pair
Unlike all of the other selections cut-n-pasted here, this one I typed in by hand; that’s how much I wanted to share it. It’s from Tape Op, the free audio recordists’ magazine… Read the rest “The Brain in the Studio”
Science Daily reveals research that proves reading lessons really do create new brain cells in children:
… Read the rest “Reading is fundamental… for kids’ brains.”Carnegie Mellon University scientists Timothy Keller and Marcel Just have uncovered
The venerable Lockergnome recently looked at memory technology – specifically, a nasal spray that boosts your ability to learn:
… Read the rest “Squirt memory up your nose.”In a research report featured as the cover story
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