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Conjuring At The Society Of Neuroscience

April 17, 2021

An annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience typically attracts over 20,000 neuroscientists from around the world to present their research — with such a large group of scientists, there’s bound to be some great work on almost anything a curious mind can imagine. While the presented projects can range in their aims from

Sensing Your Own Body Is More Complicated Than You Realize

April 15, 2021

Early philosophers did not recognize the origins of our sense of movement. Aristotle wrote that we have only five conscious senses: sight, touch, taste, hearing, and smell. But there was a reason why Aristotle may not have made room for the sense of movement, as unless we attend to our body

3 Ways For Teachers To Enhance Learning A Language

April 13, 2021

Despite the best efforts of teachers, students and parents, learning a new language is challenging, and at times can be frustrating or even traumatic. However, by applying a few basics of brain-based education — what neuroscience and educational psychology have taught us about the brain and

How Stereotypes Affect Us (And What We Can Do)

April 11, 2021

African Americans are better at sports. Asians are better at math. Though we outwardly seek and applaud diversity, stereotypes persist. “Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do” investigates the research of Dr. Claude Steele, a social psychologist, on stereotypes — and how, even in a society that

How Twins Help Us Understand Nature and Nurture

April 10, 2021

As identical twins, 19-month-old Sol and Luna share 100 percent of the same DNA. Both girls have soft oval faces, tufts of curly brown hair, slight noses, and large almond-shaped eyes. If Sol’s coat is taken off, Luna will notice, and she will eagerly mimic for hers to be removed. If one is dancing

Recognizing Multiple Intelligences: An Interview with Dr. Howard Gardner

April 9, 2021

Howard Gardner, a researcher at Harvard University, had a very different view of what amounts to intelligence. His studies of artistically gifted children and people suffering from brain injuries revealed a rich diversity of the ways in which the brain can excel. In his landmark

Is Your Phone Making You Forgetful? Learning and Memory in the Digital Age

April 6, 2021

The ultraconnectivity of our modern society is causing a wholesale shift in the way we retain information in our heads. Where most of history has been a process of wielding tools to remember things for us (everything from scratches on papyrus to the PC), we’re entering an age where we don’t really have

Understanding Belief: Delving Into the Big Questions Behind “Big Gods”

April 4, 2021

In “Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict,” psychology professor Ara Norenzayan explores how the great monotheistic and polytheistic faiths established themselves, and consequently how they’ve affected human behavior in societies throughout the world

Brain-Based Integrated Learning For The 21st Century

April 3, 2021

Educators, parents, and innovators came together for a conference held by Arizona State University titled “Brain Education: Integrated Learning for the 21st Century” to celebrate humanity’s greatest asset — the human brain. The consensus was that the future of humankind depends on how well we understand and use our brains.

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Transgender People

March 31, 2021

Is transgenderism a choice or a medical condition — and what does the neuroscience tell us? Some seem to believe that changing gender is a willful choice. In January 2019, the Supreme Court ruled 5–4 to allow then-President Donald Trump to curtail the military service of transgender individuals. President Joe Biden removed

Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind

March 30, 2021

In his dorky, ridiculously comical, and downright nerdy book, “Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind,” Stone unravels not only his personal, and at times embarrassing, relationship with magic but also the history of magic itself. Covering everything from its roots and progression

The Myth Of Multitasking

March 29, 2021

In today’s modern, technologically advanced world, with e-mail and smartphones and Twitter and Facebook demanding all of our attention all of the time — even as we work, socialize and play — multitasking may seem like the only answer. But science cautions us to restrict multitasking

Tell Your Brain To Take A Hike — Your Brain Will Thank You

March 25, 2021

Of course, the restorative effects of nature have long been known, if not scientifically proven. What better way to take a break from our harried modern routines than spend a weekend in the country? It may seem obvious, but when science investigates common sense it often yields uncommon insights. Would you have thought, for example

Find Your Meditation (and Create Your Happiness)

March 24, 2021

Human emotion is a strong response coming out of our mental activities. Emotion itself is only a brain function; it is neither positive nor negative. Fear makes you avoid danger, resentment makes you fight, and loving makes you care for others. People cannot remove their emotions from

The Mind of a Dog Revealed

March 23, 2021

It’s no surprise that dogs make us happy. A wide range of research has been done on how dogs affect the human brain, as well as our emotional and physical well-being. But until this point, the research has been one-sided. We’ve only been able to study our brains.

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