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• in Lifestyle
  Mind Quiz Stimulation
  Our brains are complex organs that we can strengthen with mental exercise or a mind quiz.
  by nathy007 / on Oct 5, 2011
• in Technology
  The New Knowledge Of The Digital Age
  Is Internet Expanding our Brainpower or Making Us More Shallow?
  by stefanialucchetti / on Oct 14, 2010
• in IT
  Attention Economics and Digital Conversations
  What is the scarcest resource you have in the age of information overload?
  by stefanialucchetti / on May 27, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “cognition”

 

• Chinas One-Child Policy Affects Personality

  
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  In 1979 China instituted the one-child policy, which limited every family to just one offspring in a controversial attempt to reduce the countrys burgeoning population. The strictly enforced law had the desired effects: in 2011 researchers estimated that the policy prevented 400 million births. In a new study in ...
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• Heavy Drinking and Smoking Linked to Early Brain Aging

  
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  New research suggests chronic smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, and increasing age are all associated with increased oxidative damage to brain tissue. Experts say the study is the first to look at the effects of smoking and age on neurocognition in people seeking treatment for alcohol dependency. Researchers ...
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• Childhood ADHD Linked to Obesity in Adulthood

  
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  Identification and treatment issues surrounding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are challenging enough. Now research is shedding light on long-term outcomes for people with ADHD. A recent study in Pediatrics reports that men who had ADHD in childhood are twice as likely to be obese in middle age, ...
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• new book – ‘Mindshaping: A New Framework for Understanding Human Social Cognition’ by Tadeusz Wieslaw Zawidzki

  
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  Mindshaping: A New Framework for Understanding Human Social Cognition by Tadeusz Wieslaw Zawidzki (MIT Press/Bradford Books, 2013) (amazon.co.uk) Book description from the publisher: In this novel account of distinctively human social cognition, Tadeusz Zawidzki argues that the key distinction between human and ...
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• How Football Players React To Sound On The Field

  
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  For as much as we hear about the importance of vision on the football field, there are quite a few phrases emphasizing the sounds of the game, such as “he heard footsteps coming”, “listen for the audible at the line”, “play until you hear the whistle” and even the backhanded compliment to the ears, “he ...
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• Who Am I?

  
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  Unlike the relatively stable genome, the menome is always changing. read more
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• BBS Training Tip #2: How Dogs Learn

  
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  Basic canine learning methods can be broken down into four distinct categories. While some have similarities and others great differences, they are all of great value and offer insight into how your dog thinks. Quite a few of these psychological theories are recent developments, many of which came about in the ...
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• Could a Neural Implant Correct Errant Thoughts?

  
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  Most people make good decisions most of the time. But when drug addiction, disease or brain injury enters the picture, rational thinking can go awry. What if the damaged brain just needed a little reminder of how it feels to choose wisely? [More]
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• Children arent scared by nasty dentist visits, but by what they think of them

  
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  The Greek Stoic Epictetus wrote that "Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them." A new study involving 185 children and teenagers, 88 fathers and 97 mothers shows how this same principle applies to childrens fear of the dentist. This is an important topic because many children avoid the ...
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• Asperity Parity: How to Argue Forcefully Yet Fairly

  
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  Asperity Parity is being as rhetorically rough as your debate partner but no rougher. Its a key to having creative, expansive debates. Truth springs from arguments amongst friends, which requires the ability to argue and stay friends. You cant afford to be too blunt or too tentative, not by some absolute standard but ...
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• ALA Helps Treat Cognitive Conditions from Brain Fog to Alzheimer’s

  
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  ALA Helps Treat Cognitive Conditions from Brain Fog to Alzheimer’s :
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• Study Explodes Myth of Cougars & Sugar Daddies

  
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  It’s a popular image fostered by Hollywood: A rich older man or woman supporting an attractive younger spouse. But a new study has found that people who marry someone much younger or much older have lower earnings, lower cognitive abilities, are less educated, and are less attractive, compared to people who marry ...
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• Understanding and Self-control: Is There a Connection?

  
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  A child who is able to reflect on what she is feeling, why she feels as she does and how other people’s thoughts and feelings inform their behavior is more likely to be able to manage her own feelings – and more likely to become the adult who thrives in personal and professional life. read more
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• Worth Watching: Born Yesterday (1950)

  
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  Title: Born YesterdayDirector: George CukorLanguage: EnglishRating: PGIn Born Yesterday, Billie Dawn (Judy Holliday) slowly emerges from the dumb blonde persona shes buried herself under for years in order to get by in life. At the start of the movie, shes arrived in Washington, D.C. with her boyfriend, Harry Brock ...
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• Is Design Important In Healthcare?

  
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  By Dr. Joseph Kvedar First Posted at The cHealth Blog on 5/7/2013 I’ve been in the healthcare delivery business now for 30 years and I can confidently say we’ve paid almost no attention to design.  Systems are built around physicians’ desires and workflows, and physicians tend to be quantitative, ...
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• Keeping Organized

  
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  I was lucky enough to be invited to contribute to a couple of OT Month pieces. One was on Abbys awesome pediatric OT blog and the other was for AOTA . In these, I shared some of the organizational tips that I use to try to keep life together. Here is a more elaborate and visual demonstration of some of the best. ...
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• Secrets of the Criminal Mind

  
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  What is science revealing about the nature of the criminal mind? Adrian Raine, a professor at the university of Pennsylvania, is an expert in the expanding field of “neurocriminology.” He has written The Anatomy of Violence , a sweeping account of crime’s biological roots, including genetics, neuro-anatomy ...
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• CATERING – A CAREER FOR CREATIVE COOKS

  
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  Those of us who love to cook and be creative as well as being your own chief may find a vocation in the catering business is not right downwards their street. The very fact they will not just run their very own company but help masses provide a big commerce meal for one hundred hungry workers or attain their very own ...
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• A Toxic Cascade: When the Brain Consumes Itself [Slide Show]

  
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  In recent years neuroscientists have come upon an astonishing revelation: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’s and other major brain diseases may have a similar underlying cause. They may all result from the mis-folding of proteins in a process similar to the one linked to mad cow and other prion-based ...
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• Seeds of Dementia: What Do Alzheimer s, Parkinson s and Lou Gehrig s Have in Common? (preview)

  
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  Under a microscope, a pathologist searching through the damaged nerve cells in a brain tissue sample from a patient who has died of Alzheimers disease can make out strange clumps of material. They consist of proteins that clearly do not belong there. Where did they come from, and why are there so many of them? And ...
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