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• new book – ‘Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience’

  
  my mind on books — Authority: 132
  Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience by Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld (Basic Books, 2013) (kindle ed.), (amazon.co.uk) Book description from the publisher: What can’t neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI—functional magnetic resonance imaging—was introduced in the early ...
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• Complex brain function depends on flexibility

  
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  Neurons that can multitask greatly enhance the brain’s computational power, study finds. Over the past few decades, neuroscientists have made much progress in mapping the brain by deciphering the functions of individual neurons that perform very specific tasks, such as recognizing the location or color of an object. ...
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• Jaswant S. Khokhar, MD, Represents California with Inclusion into Renowned Publication The Leading Physicians of the World

  
  IBWIRE — Authority: 157
  The Leading Physicians of the World and the International Association of Healthcare Professionals, IAHCP, are proud to announce Jaswant S. Khokhar, MD, is being honored for his exceptional successes in the psychiatry community.  Over 15 years in practice, Dr. Khokhar has continued to demonstrate the passion, ...
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• He’s Not as Bad as it Seems and She’s Not as Good as it Seems: List of Biases in Judgment and Decision-Making, Part 11

  
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  Hello Hello! It’s been a little more than three weeks since my last post. I’ve finished up the requirements for the MBA, so I should be back to writing posts with some regularity. Since today’s Monday, I thought I’d restart that series of posting about a cognitive bias on Mondays. Today’s cognitive ...
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• Cognitive Biases Are Bad for Business

  
  The Power of Prime — Authority: 454
  The conventional wisdom in classical economics is that we humans are “rational actors." But any notion that we are, in fact, rational, was blown away by the work of Kahneman and Tversky on cognitive biases. Nowhere is this irrationality more problematic than in the corporate world where bad decisions can wreak ...
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• Senility and Cognitive Dysfunction in Senior Dogs

  
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  If you notice that your older dog is exhibiting behavior problems, it may be senility or cognitive dysfunction that accounts for the behavior. Senility and cognitive dysfunction affects dogs in the same way that Alzheimer’s disease affects humans. Recent medical studies have shown that many senior dogs with ...
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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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• Trust Your Memory? Bad Idea

  
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  Elizabeth Loftus is a psychologist and expert on the malleability of human memoryLoftus is most known for her work on memory distortion and false memory implantationHer research could also be used to fight obesity, addiction with false memorie... The post Trust Your Memory? Bad Idea appeared first on ...
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• New people come

  
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  Charles Thomson Great Seal report page2 “The Date underneath is that of the Declaration of Independence, and the words under it signify the beginning of the new American Æ ra which commences from that Date”, says Charles Thomson report on the design of the Great Seal to have become to accepted pattern. ...
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• People Believe They Have More Free Will Than Others

  
  Understanding Human — Authority: 130
  I can choose whatever destination I want. Actor-Observer Bias: People Believe They Have More Free Will Than Others The discussion whether we have free will or not is endless. Some people like to attribute all happenings to environmental or social influences, which reflects a deterministic point of view. ...
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• If Golda is still right, then I blame the “Left”

  
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  Recently an Israeli blogger translated a piece by a young Israeli journalist who participated in what was supposed to be a “peace initiative.” She is a classic product of Israeli culture, engaged, open, desirous of peace even if that means painful compromises, liberal cognitive egocentric . And she recently had ...
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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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• Bernanke-Haters at the Sohn Conference

  
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  Stanley Druckenmiller : Druckenmiller noted everyone is saying, "love the market long term, looking for a correction." He believes the opposite, loves market short-term, but hates it long term. Strongly disagrees with quantitative easing by Bernanke now. Only agreed with the first QE. "His bond buying is ...
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• Brain implants could enhance learning and mental capacity by detecting desired activity and enhancing information flows to and from the hippocampus

  
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  The abilities to learn, remember, evaluate, and decide are central to who we are and how we live. Damage to or dysfunction of the brain circuitry that supports these functions can be devastating, leading to Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, PTSD, or many other disorders. Current treatments, which are drug-based or ...
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• New Books from Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter

  
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  Daniel Dennetts new book is  Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking   and Douglas Hofstadters new book (written with French psychologist Emmanuel Sander) is  Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking . Eric Banks from Bookforum reviews the two new books. This Is Your Brain, On ...
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• Researchers Pinpoint Brain Area Involved in Emotional Self-Control

  
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  Different areas of the brain are activated when we choose to suppress an emotion, compared to when we are instructed to suppress an emotion, according a new study. Researchers from the University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Ghent University scanned the brains of healthy participants and ...
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• Raising A Confident And Independent Child

  
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  No One Wants To Raise a Wimpy Kid As a parent your first instinct is often to try and protect your child from every potential danger. While it’s vital that your child be safe in this world, overprotecting them doesn’t prepare them for the realities of life as an adult. Your child needs to be [...]
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• The future of intuitive technology and neurocognitive care?

  
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  Envisioning The Future With Inventor Cori Lathan (NPR): “Computers were created to be useful tools, but all too often it’s still a chore to get technology to do our bidding…For example, working as an engineer with astronauts at NASA, Lathan realized that the physical challenges of living in space in some ways ...
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• Dana Golstein: ATTENTION JASON RICHWINE!!: Youre Not the First Guy to (Wrongly) Believe Immigrants are Dumb

  
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  Dana Goldstein: Att. Jason Richwine: Youre Not the First Guy to (Wrongly) Believe Immigrants are Dumb : The human brain remains, in many crucial aspects, a mystery to science. So what is IQ? It is a measure of the capacity to learn in the linear fashion prized by Western culture, and we know that it is partially ...
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• Strategies for Improving the Cognitive Symptoms of Depression

  
  Psych Central — Authority: 478
  “The texture of a depressed person’s brain functioning is that it’s operating in a depleted way,” according to Deborah Serani , Psy.D, a clinical psychologist and author of the book Living with Depression . This depletion leads to a variety of intrusive cognitive symptoms, such as distorted thinking, poor ...
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