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Tero Toivanen

Sapere Audere: Diferencias de genero en la percepcion de la belleza. - 0 views

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audere percerpción belleza cerebro

shared by Tero Toivanen on 26 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Pero al filosofo Camilo Jose Cela Conde le ha sorprendido hallar diferencias de genero en la percepcion de la belleza.
  • Parece ser que los hombres utilizan el hemisferio derecho durante la contemplacion de imagenes consideradas como esteticamente placenteras mientras que las mujeres utilizan el conjunto del cerebro.
  • Tero Toivanen on 26 Mar 09
     
    Parece ser que los hombres utilizan el hemisferio derecho durante la contemplacion de imagenes consideradas como esteticamente placenteras mientras que las mujeres utilizan el conjunto del cerebro.
Tero Toivanen

YouTube - Brain-Computer Interfaces (Krishna Shenoy, Stanford University) - 0 views

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brain computer interfaces Krishna Shenoy

shared by Tero Toivanen on 27 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Tero Toivanen on 27 Mar 09
     
    Video of Krishna Shenoy of Stanford University about brain-computer interfaces, wich could help people suffering problems to communicate.
Tero Toivanen

Learn Psychology For Free - 0 views

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psychology free

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  • Tero Toivanen on 28 Mar 09
     
    Here you can learn psychology for free. Fantastic!
Tero Toivanen

Eide Neurolearning Blog: fMRI of Learning Styles: Confirmation of Visual and Verbal Lea... - 0 views

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neurolearning visual verbal learning

shared by Tero Toivanen on 30 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Tero Toivanen on 30 Mar 09
     
    Using a simple True/False Learning Styles questionnaire(like this, see below), researchers found that people could reliably predict whether they are predominantly visual or verbal learners.
Tero Toivanen

Creativity and the Aging Brain | Psychology Today Blogs - 0 views

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creativity aging brain

shared by Tero Toivanen on 03 Apr 09 - Cached
  • So instead of promoting retirement at age 65, perhaps we as a society should be promoting transition at age 65: transition into a creative field where our growing resource of individuals with aging brains can preserve their wisdom in culturally-valued works of art, music, or writing.
  • Numerous studies suggest that highly creative individuals also employ a broadened rather than focused state of attention. This state of widened attention allows the individual to have disparate bits of information in mind at the same time. Combining remote bits of information is the hallmark of the creative idea.
  • Other studies show that certain areas of the prefrontal cortex involved in self-conscious awareness and emotions are thinner in the aging brain. This may correlate with the diminished need to please and impress others, which is a notable characteristic of both aging individuals and creative luminaries.
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  • Finally, intelligence studies indicate that older individuals have access to an increasing store of knowledge gained over a lifetime of learning and experience. Combining bits of knowledge into novel and original ideas is what the creative brain is all about.
  • Tero Toivanen on 03 Apr 09
     
    The aging brain resembles the creative brain in several ways. For instance, the aging brain is more distractible and somewhat more disinhibited than the younger brain (so is the creative brain). Aging brains score better on tests of crystallized IQ (and creative brains use crystallized knowledge to make novel and original associations).
Tero Toivanen

Phasic Firing Of Dopamine Neurons Is Key To Brain's Prediction Of Rewards - 0 views

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dopamine neurons brain learning rewards behavior

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  • Our research findings provide a direct functional link between the bursting activity of midbrain dopamine neurons and behavior. The research has significant applications for the improvement of health, because the dopamine neurons we are studying are the same neurons that become inactivated during Parkinson's Disease and with the consumption of psychostimulants such as cocaine and amphetamine
  • Midbrain dopamine neurons fire in two characteristic modes, tonic and phasic, which are thought to modulate distinct aspects of behavior. When an unexpected reward is presented to an individual, midbrain dopamine neurons fire high frequency bursts of electrical activity. Those bursts of activity allow us to learn to associate the reward with cues in our environment, which may predict similar rewards in the future.
  • When researchers placed the mice in reward-based situations, they found that the mice without the NMDA receptor in their dopaminergic neurons could not learn tasks that required them to associate sensory cues with reward. Those same mice, however, were able to learn tasks that did not involve an association with rewards.
Tero Toivanen

Growing evidence of the brain's plasticity could benefit stroke victims or those suffer... - 1 views

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brain plasticity

shared by Tero Toivanen on 08 Apr 09 - Cached
  • With the right training, scientists now know the brain can reshape itself to work around dead and damaged areas, often with dramatic benefits.
  • Therapies that exploit the brain's power to adapt have helped people overcome damage caused by strokes, depression, anxiety and learning disabilities, and may one day replace drugs for some of these conditions.
  • Children with language difficulties have been shown to make significant progress using computer training tools that are the equivalent of cerebral cross-training.
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  • Neuroplasticity does not see the different regions of the brain as completely versatile and certainly not interchangeable. But it recognises that if part of the brain is damaged, it can be possible to train other areas to take on, at least to some extent, the job of the lost brain matter.
  • Doidge says he is not anti-medication, but wonders if therapies that tap into neuro-plasticity will soon replace drug treatments for certain conditions. "We can change our brains by sensing, imagining and acting in the world. It's economical and mostly low-tech, and I'm very, very hopeful"
  • Tero Toivanen on 08 Apr 09
     
    With the right training, scientists now know the brain can reshape itself to work around dead and damaged areas, often with dramatic benefits.
Tero Toivanen

Exploring-Psychology: Teaching Pigeons To Bowl. The Story of How B.F. Skinner Discovere... - 0 views

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Skinner Behaviorism

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  • Tero Toivanen on 12 Apr 09
     
    In formulating his theories, B.F Skinner conducted numerous behaviour experiements with rats and pigeons, as can be seen in the following video.
Tero Toivanen

Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com - 1 views

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motivation TED talk video Dan Pink reward intrinsic motivation extrinsic motivation candle problem

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  • Tero Toivanen on 29 Aug 09
     
    Dan Pink's fantastic talk about motivation in TED.
anonymous

Promoting your own site - 5 views

Hi everyone Just a quick note to inform members not to use this group to promote their own sites. I am happy for people to link to their overall site (e.g., bookmark the home page), but bookmarkin...

started by Gareth Furber on 03 Apr 09 1 follow-up, last by anonymous on 03 Apr 09
Gareth Furber

Links will be removed if they are not psychology related - 1 views

Just a pre-warning to those who wish to use this group to point people towards sites/posts that are not psychology related. I will be deleting these items from the group. Cheers Gareth

started by Gareth Furber on 30 Jul 09 no follow-up yet
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