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Peter Doolittle: How your working memory makes sense of the world. - 0 views

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  • John Crane on 06 May 14
     
    Life comes at us very quickly, and what we need to do is take that amorphous flow of experience and somehow extract meaning from it." In this funny, enlightening talk, educational psychologist Peter Doolittle details the importance -- and limitations -- of your "working memory," that part of the brain that allows us to make sense of what's happening right now.
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BPS Research Digest: Targeted brain stimulation provokes feelings of bliss - 0 views

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  • John Crane on 16 Mar 14
     
    In a new case study, a team of Swiss and French neurologists followed a similar strategy during brain surgery with a 23-year-old female patient. She has temporal lobe epilepsy and experiences "ecstatic auras" before seizure onset. During these periods she has "intense feelings of bliss and well-being", a floating sensation in her stomach, enhanced senses and time appears to contract.
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Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work? - 0 views

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shared by John Crane on 25 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • John Crane on 25 Jun 14
     
    What motivates us to work? Contrary to conventional wisdom, it isn't just money. But it's not exactly joy either. It seems that most of us thrive by making constant progress and feeling a sense of purpose. Behavioral economist Dan Ariely presents two eye-opening experiments that reveal our unexpected and nuanced attitudes toward meaning in our work.
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