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Beth D Johnson

3 ways elephants and neuroscience can help you make better decisions - The Week - 0 views

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  • Oxytocin isn't just the "love hormone." And dopamine isn't merely "the reward neurotransmitter." And serotonin isn't just the "happy chemical."
  • It's an elegant way to understand the primary structure of the human brain. The old parts of the brain are like the elephant: A simple yet powerful creature, ruled by primal emotion and desires. The new brain (or prefrontal cortex) is the rider: Smarter and more rational but easily overpowered.
  • One paper published by a Duke University researcher in 2006 found that more than 40 percent of the actions people performed each day weren't actual decisions, but habits.
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  • The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Amira .

The Creative Advantage: How Vivid Memories of the Past Help Predictions for the Future ... - 0 views

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shared by Amira . on 18 May 10 - Cached
  • "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards..." - Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
  • Episodic memory is an autobiographical that encodes specific times, places, sensory details and context, in contrast to semantic or non-personal memory that encodes facts (like 3 + 2 = 5 or the definition of a shoe) that can deal with more abstract or representational information that now may only be distantly linked to prior experiences.
  • When researchers looked at the brain regions involved in looking at the past, they found many of the same regions activated in response to prompts to imagine events in the future.
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  • It was Suddendorf and Corballis who raised the idea that mental time travel into the past was closely linked to time travel into the future.
  • Any other significance to the brain areas found to be activated into future visualization experiments? Maybe - these are the same areas important for theory of mind or thinking about the perspectives of others, and spatial navigation tasks.
  • It's not hard to find examples of highly creative forward-thinking adults who seem to have had this prodigious memory pattern (Nikola Tesla, Isaac Asimov, Leonardo Da Vinci etc.) but amazingly we think we see some of these budding versions in our clinic because of our interest in highly gifted and twice exceptional (gifted with LD) learners. Vivid personal memory doesn't always translated into academic success in the early years of education - because it's usually impersonal or rote memory that's emphasized in school. Vivid visualizers can be easily distracted, lost in their daydreams, or more concerned with personal trivia (what Toby brought to school, the games on Sarah's DS, etc.) or personal experimentation (homemade catapults) than the steps for rounding decimals or regurgitating dates and names for a history test.
  • Amira . on 18 May 10
     
    "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards..." - Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
Marlene A. Mania

Do you dread your job, or do you love it? - WebAnswers.com - 0 views

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    Are you someone who has a badly suited (and, or) dead-end job, and gain (absolutely) no satisfaction from it - (besides the fact that the grueling situation puts the 'bread and butter on the table'); or, do you delight in what you do...
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