Billion pound brain project under way
Editor’s note: The neuroscience equivalent of the Human Genome Project is underway . . .
Browsing: neuroscience
In conversation with neuroscientists
Editor’s note: A look at how neuroscience is developing and what is providing us in terms of helping us to quite literally picture the mind.
Motivation a key factor in preserving brainpower later in life
Editor’s note: Wanting to learn and keeping your brain active as you get older will help cognitive function later in life, according to this research.
10 magical effects music has on the mind
Editor’s note: Research-backed list which makes you wonder why music does not feature in many people’s working lives.
The neurological benefits of practice
Editor’s note: Overlearning something helps reduce the workload on the brain which means you can use the spare resources on enhancing your performance.
Have we been brainwashed by neuroscience?
Editor’s note: A look at the arguments raised in the book: Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience.
Three brainy books reviewed
Editor’s note: The elearning coach reviews three books on neuroscience and cognition.
The real neuroscience of creativity
Editor’s note: A look at the neural networks at play in the creative process. A must read if you are interested in creativity.
Debunked: ‘right-brain’ and ‘left-brain’ personalities
Editor’s note: The idea of right brain-left brain personalities is flawed: it’s far better to talk about people’s creativity or their analytical skills separately, rather than in opposition—especially since many people have plenty of both.
Your brain at work
Editor’s note: This piece gets under the ‘neuroscience noise’ and looks at what brain science is really telling us about how the brain works. Thanks to @clairewalshlcp for sharing.
The science of chunking, working memory, and how pattern recognition fuels creativity
Editor’s note: Cambridge neuroscientist Daniel Bor, author of The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning looks at how pattern-recognition is essential to consciousness and our entire experience of life.
Does neuromarketing work? Poor data, secret analysis, and logical errors
Editor’s note: Will L&D be following in the tracks of marketing by taking scientific methodologies and making them their own? L&D could learn from marketing on this.
The neuroscience of everybody’s favorite topic
Editor’s note: Why, in a world full of ideas to discover, develop, and discuss, do people spend the majority of their time talking about themselves?
It’s in your genes
Editor’s note: A good article on neurohype and neuroskepticism and the need to find a place in between.
The neuroscience of social influence
Editor’s note: fascinating research into the neuroscience behind idea sharing. The results make for interesting reading: “The spread of ideas depends on the messenger’s social-cognitive abilities, affect, and motivations, and less on IQ-type intelligence. None of the stages involved in social influence recruited brain regions typically associated with higher-level abstract reasoning and executive functioning (the frontal-parietal brain network).”