Let’s say that you’re preparing for an extremely important test that you and roughly 100 other classmates will be taking in a week. A few days before the test, you find out that your instructor will be going on a trip not long after the test is over and will be providing written and verbal feedback to the students within a day of the test.This is unusual, because ordinarily the instr
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When You Expect Rapid Feedback, the Fire to Perform Gets Hotter
Posted by admin 22 hours ago (http://neuronarrative.wordpress.com)You know your ‘type’? It’s stress dependent…
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A number of interesting revelations to be had here, and all to do with our choices of ‘mate’.And by mate, I don’t mean the antipodean colloquialism meaning ‘friend’. Nope, I mean mate as in, you know, someone you want to shag. As it were.The first revelation in this paper* is that, for the most part, [...][Click on the hyperlinked headline for more of the goodness]
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Friston is Freudian
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Professor Karl Friston is one of the most prominent (and prolific) researchers in the field of neuroimaging. His contributions to methodological development in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are immense:He invented statistical parametric mapping; SPM is an international standard for analysing imaging data and rests on the general linear model and random field theory (developed wit
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Why surprises temporarily blind us
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New research reveals for the first time how our brains coordinate two different types of attention and why we may be temporarily blinded by surprises.
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Obstinately Overprotecting Odin
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I woke up this morning and worried about my 2 year-old son, Odin. Is he eating enough leafy greens? Is he socializing well with others? Is this demanding and snarky attitude he is newly exhibiting a permanent part of his personality? Will ramming his head into the table while playing soccer in the house prevent [...]... Narita, K., Takei, Y., Suda, M., Aoyama, Y., Uehara, T., Kosaka, H.
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New Alzheimer's test offers better opportunities for early detection
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Early detection is key to more effective treatment for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of cognitive impairment, and recent research shows that a new test is more than 95 percent effective in detecting cognitive abnormalities associated with these diseases.
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Reminder of disease primes the body and mind to repel other people
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When it comes to avoiding infection, a growing body of evidence suggests we don't just have a physiological immune system, we also have a behavioural immune system - one that alerts us to people likely to be carrying disease, and that puts us off interacting with them. Indeed, there's research showing that people who are more fearful of disease tend to hold more xenophobic attitudes and to displa
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Brain naturally follows scientific method
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It turns out that there is a striking similarity between how the human brain determines what is going on in the outside world and the job of scientists. Good science involves formulating a hypothesis and testing whether this hypothesis is compatible with the scientist's observations. Researchers have now shown that this is what the brain does as well. A study shows that it takes less effort for t
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