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Parisa Rouhani

No fair! Why your brain hates inequities - Behavior- msnbc.com - 0 views

  • people prefer a level playing field,
  • Our study shows that the brain doesn’t just reflect self-interested goals, but instead, these basic reward processing regions of the brain seem to be affected by social information
  • humans are attuned to inequality, and we just don't like it.
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  • The researchers monitored signals in the striatum and prefrontal cortex , parts of the brain thought to be involved in how people evaluate rewards. They found that the brain activity in these areas was greater for the "rich" subjects when money was transferred to the other player than to themselves, whereas the "poor" subjects' brains showed the opposite pattern
  • n other words, everyone seemed to prefer a financial equality.
  • these regions were responding most when the outcome would be the most fair,
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    research shows that people prefer equity in situations. fairness affects one's emotions about a situation
Uly Lalunio

Big brains for video games - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com - 1 views

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    "Does playing video games improve your brain? Or do bigger brains make it easier to learn video games? Psychologists say they can predict how well you'll do on a video game by looking at the size of just three little structures inside your brain. If those structures are bigger, you'll probably catch on more quickly and do better."
Jennifer Jocz

Video gamers: Size of brain structures predicts success | R&D Mag - 0 views

  • The new study, in the journal Cerebral Cortex, found that nearly a quarter of the variability in achievement seen among men and women trained on a new video game could be predicted by measuring the volume of three structures in their brains.
  • pre-existing individual differences in the brain might predict variability in learning rates, the authors wrote.
  • Such information might be useful in education, where longer training periods may be required for some students, or in treating disability or dementia, where information about the brain regions affected by injury or disease could lead to a better understanding of the skills that might also need attention
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    Interesting article discussing a study showing that the size of certain brain structures can predict video game performance
Stephanie Fitzgerald

Study shows how gaming impacts brain function to inspire healthy behavior | Games for H... - 0 views

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    A study out of Stanford looked at how videogames, in particular serious games and games for health, can activate circuits in the brain associated with positive motivation. "The study published today provides new insights into how these effects might have occurred, revealing that active participation in gameplay events is key to activating the brain's positive motivation circuits. Seeing and hearing the same information without active participation in gameplay had no impact on activity in positive motivation circuits."
Parisa Rouhani

FOXNews.com - How to Map the Human Brain - 0 views

  • But as many as 10 people must trace each neuron to catch errors, out of a team of several dozen.
  • no single wiring diagram looked the same for any animal. The wiring diagrams for the left and right ear muscles of the same animal also looked different, despite the muscles having an identical purpose.
  • hey represent simple challenges compared to the brain. They also know the exact purpose of the neurons and their connections in those cases
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  • memories are written in connectomes," Seung explained. "We may also be able to find connectopathies, or miswirings of the brain that cause mental disorders."
Allison Browne

Study: MRI reveals brain function differs in math-phobic children - 1 views

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    How can we help these children feel the sense of flow when in math class? Children who get anxious about doing math have brain function that differs from children who don't, with math-specific fear interfering with the parts of the brain involved in problem-solving, according to functional MRI (fMRI) scans of 7- to 9-year olds that formed the basis of a study published online March 20 in Psychological Science.
Leslie Lieman

Damaged Baby Brains-and a Video-Game Fix - 2 views

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    Some researchers are looking at how video games open up new wiring in the brain. "Infancy is filled with the best of times: critical windows of weeks and months when the growing brain fine-tunes things like language skills and vision. And it's wise to take advantage of them, for when the windows slam shut, those skills don't develop. Or so scientists used to think." Also, "Playing a video game called Medal of Honor helped some people recover lost visual abilities." But some researchers are not confident we know enough or raise ethical questions about further interventions.
Parisa Rouhani

Music Helps Stroke Victims Communicate, Study Finds - WSJ.com - 0 views

  • music may hold the key to unlocking language, according to a new study.
  • patients who were taught to essentially sing their words improved their verbal abilities and maintained the improvement for up to a month after the end of the therapy,
  • there are separate brain networks associated with vocal output, with one more engaged with speech and the other with music. With certain types of stroke, fibers on the left side of the brain that are important to the interaction of the auditory and the motor system are disrupted. But if the brain could recruit the fibers from the right side, which are more engaged with music, then the system could adapt.
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  • he patients who benefit the most from the treatment are those who are able to hear the "melodic contour" of words and thus generalize their learning beyond the words taught by their therapist.
Jerusha Saldaña Yanez

Colorful Images to Help Illuminate the Brain - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    aesthetics help draw interest in the brain?...
Brandon Pousley

Brain Activity Map - 1 views

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    This is a very interesting project, especially in light of our conversation about ways that physiological and psychological markers can inform learning systems (adaptive learning, responsive software, etc.)
Chris Dede

Researchers debate gaming's effects on the brain | eSchool News - 3 views

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    more studies needed to sort out what is happening
Uly Lalunio

Observations: Not merely slipping away: Forgetting requires biochemical action - 1 views

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    "It has long been understood that memroy formation is an active and often exhausting process, losing them seems to happen quite passively as time elapses and new information overloads our busy brains. But a new study published February 19 in the journal Cell shows that forgetting is a biochemically active process not unlike memory formation."
Soomi Hong

This is Your Brain on Video Games - 0 views

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    Gaming sharpens thinking, social skills, and perception.
Kellie Demmler

Tim Newlin: Get Smart! Doodle! - Teachers.Net Gazette - 0 views

  • doodle
  • People who doodle are smart - they pay more attention and remember things better than those
  • Doodling engages the two halves of the brain on a concrete task that keeps it from leaving the focus of what is being said or presented in real life
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  • Fidgeting - like twirling or chewing a pencil or playing with your hair - seems to have the same positive memory effects.
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    While mini articles such as this often leave out half the research - the concept of doodling being an enhancer rather than a distraction is interesting.  The main point is that doodling engages the brain just enough to keep students from spacing out.  
kshapton

Mindfulness meditation benefits and changes brain structures in 8 weeks - 1 views

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    Can self-awareness exercises change our brains for the better? Is the practice of meditation a kind of flow experience?
Hongge Ren

Daphne Bavelier: Your brain on video games - 1 views

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    How do fast-paced video games affect the brain? Step into the lab with cognitive researcher Daphne Bavelier to hear surprising news about how video games, even action-packed shooter games, can help us learn, focus and, fascinatingly, multitask. (Filmed at TEDxCHUV.)
Jing Jing Tan

Train Your Brain for Monk-Like Focus - 4 views

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    Related to our discussion of attention and flow, this article talks about external and internal causes of distraction and what to do about them.
Jing Jing Tan

Zapping the brain into "expert" mode - Boing Boing - 3 views

  • transcranial direct current stimulation
    • Chris Mosier
       
      Thanks for the link, Jing Jing. The article makes an interesting conclusion that in addition to electrical stimulus, you can induce flow by focusing on an external object to "turn off conscious thought." From the New Scientist article: "When you have an external focus, you achieve a more automatic type of control," she says. "You don't think about what you are doing, you just focus on the outcome."
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    Tying in with our conversation about flow, this article mentions a way to physically induce flow through "transcranial direct current stimulation".
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    I have to say..I am a bit weirded out by this article. The days of Johnny Mnemonic are not far behind.
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