"fall in love" clocks in at about one-fifth of a second
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Brain Takes Less Than Second to Fall in Love : Discovery News - 10 views
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Briana Grenert on 29 Aug 12Wow, and I thought romance novels didn't represent love correctly. >.< -
Iona Unguran on 29 Aug 12Yeah... But anyway, how many people ever get to experience that, really ? I'd say not so much... -
anonymous on 29 Aug 12I feel like the dating part is more of a security measure, and anyhow you're on the date already so therefore you have some kind of interest in the person. -
Briana Grenert on 29 Aug 12Well, what do you define "falling in love"?
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anonymous on 29 Aug 12^Lust at first sight?
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Briana Grenert on 29 Aug 12So, this title/wording is a little misleading.
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ust as love is diverse, the part of the brain affected is also different.
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Is the same part of the brain affected in different people always? Do things ever get muddled?
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Love's high is similar to cocaine's rush.
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12 areas of the brain work together during the love process
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even body image are also affected
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Not a bad side effect
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I'm also wondering that, most people tend to "lose interest" for a variety of reasons. I think that it's the fact that men are supposed to have children repeatedly and women only a few times due to evolutionary things.
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love has attracted plenty of attention
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What kind of people are interested? The people who would like to "conjure" up love or the average person wondering what love is like?
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This is sad, seeing this in a scientifical way... You lose all the mystery part...
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Test the viewers or the love part? Because I'm picturing needles in your head as you check people out
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5 Mind Blowing Ways Your Memory Plays Tricks On You | Cracked.com - 10 views
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when we hear a statement enough, we'll start to believe it
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I wonder how much of what we know is really just what other people want us to know? -
Most likely, a lot. Most of our information today is manipulated by reporters and other sources. -
I bet there are things in Science and History that are wrong. It kinda makes me question everything I am told.
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was quite a stir recently when it turne
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the brain confuses an imagined event with an actual memory.
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haha this happens to me all the time! My dreams are so vivid they feel real even when remembering them.
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"Illusion of Truth" effect.
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If everything we know is a Illusion of the truth how do we know whats really true and what isn't?
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"If other members of the tribe who I feel close to believe this, there must be something to it."
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Wait so if one person believes it does that mean over time we all will start to accept it?
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Most of you will still think of this as something other people do, and that you of course are the unbiased observer who can clearly see their stupidity
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seen video clips of Mr. Obama drinking alcohol, eating pork, getting sworn in on a Christian Bible and sitting in a Christian church
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This is how people continue to believe admitted hoaxes after they have been proven to be fake.
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It is so cool, whenever I look at this picture, I try to imagine how they faked it.
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I wonder why people still believe hoaxes even when there is clear cut evidence that it is not true?
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15 Big Ways The Internet Is Changing Our Brain » Online College Search - Your... - 6 views
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In a study by Science Magazine, students were asked to type in pieces of trivia, and depending on their group were told that their information would either be erased or saved. The group that was told their data would be saved were less likely to remember.
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The point of trivia is that it's trivial, right? I would say that not bothering to remember is an improvement. Who cares what the capital of some obscure country is if you can look it up? Now we save room for the important things.
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Are we smarter because of technology, or in spite of it? No one's answered that question yet, but it's interesting to think about
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Maybe it's because we're more trained for tests now. Taking tests is definitely a skill in itself, and now that we take them more often, we're getting better at it?
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The wife of a heavy technology user notes that her husband is "crotchety until he gets his fix." After spending time online, your brain wants to get back on for more, making it difficult to concentrate on other tasks and "unplug."
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I hope somebody is attempts to scientifically prove that we're legitimately addicted to technology. It might open up some useful things for people who have a serious problem. In South Korea somewhere I know they have a rehabilitation program for video games.
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We don't have to remember phone numbers or addresses anymore. Instead, we can just hop on our email or Google to look it up.
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Are we slowly becoming less capable to remember information and details because we can simply look it up on the computer?
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Professor Betsy Sparrow reports, "We remember less through knowing information itself than by knowing where the information can be found."
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But is this truly advantageous? What if you don't have the materials to find what you need to find? Even if you know how to find it, you may not be able to all the time
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Like so many others, he finds that "deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."
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This has happened to me as well. Would playing these memory games help concentration on reading or would they simply be exercising other parts of your brain?
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"Five hours on the Internet and the naive subjects had already rewired their brains," noted Small, suggesting that over time, Internet use changes neural pathways.
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How will this affect our brains in the future? Will everyone be "master surfers" or will there still be a difference between people's capabilities?
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overlook older, valuable information, instead choosing to seek out new information
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This implies that new information can't be as valuable as old information; what if the new information we gain through multitasking is more important than what we would have obtained otherwise?
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Even after you log off (if you ever do), your brain remains rewired
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Is there actual physical difference in the connections between the centers of the brain when this "rewiring" occurs? What areas does this affect?
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The Brain on Love - NYTimes.com - 5 views
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Why does the brain often remember negative comments more than positive ones in all relationships?
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This is taking the saying "we complete each other" to a whole new level.
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It's weird to think how in the animal world, mates are chosen by who will help produce the best whether it is the smartest, strongest, or fastest offspring, but human relationships are so much more complex.
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It finally makes sense why they say people who were neglected or had a lack of love as a child are bound to be cold and distrusting in their relationships.
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Is this why children who have experienced rough childhoods (abuse, neglect, etc.) tend to interact much differently with others than children who haven't had said experiences?
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Wow. It's amazing how our bodies work and how strongly we effect each other. This is probably why many suicides and self afflicted pain cases are so common. People should really watch what they say and do to each other...
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Sum of the Parts? How Our Brains See Men as People and Women as Body Parts | Neuroscien... - 5 views
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When casting our eyes upon an object, our brains
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In fact, it takes two separate mental functions to see the mosaic from both perspectives.
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Maybe this adds to the different way that people perceive the two sexes, as not equals.
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When presented with images of men, perceivers tended to rely more on “global” cognitive processing, the mental method in which a person is perceived as a whole. Meanwhile, images of women were more often the subject of “local” cognitive processing, or the objectifying perception of something as an assemblage of its various parts.
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This could be one of the reasons of the idea of male dominance in society -
If women are assessed as an assemblage of various parts, does that mean that they are viewed as nonuniform or more lenient, thus making it more plausible that men are dominant. Or should it be viewed as because they are able to be disassembled show the ability to be more open minded, thus being better leaders
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Women were perceived in the same ways that objects are viewed.
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So that means that objectifying women is genetic. Its still inexcusable though.
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Men might be doing it because they’re interested in potential mates, while women may do it as more of a comparison with themselves
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the gender of participants doing the observing had no effect on the outcome
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Our findings suggest people fundamentally process women and men differently, but we are also showing that a very simple manipulation counteracts this effect, and perceivers can be prompted to see women globally, just as they do men,
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“The subjects in the study’s images were everyday, ordinary men and women … the fact that people are looking at ordinary men and women and remembering women’s body parts better than their entire bodies was very interesting.”
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I think people remember other people by different body parts and how their shaped. Not just their faces.
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Women’s sexual body parts were more easily recognized when presented in isolation than when they were presented in the context of their entire bodies. But men’s sexual body parts were recognized better when presented in the context of their entire bodies than they were in isolation.
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Humor a boost to memory, study shows - Valparaiso University - 1 views
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People tend to remember the funny things in tv or pictures because its what makes them happy and stimulates the emotions. People will tend to not remember the boring stuff.
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Do you remember the commercial about cowboys trying to herd cats that aired during the Super Bowl?
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I personally do not remember that commercial...maybe because I was 4 years old.
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Dr. Carlson says that after controlling for photographic image, keyword, order of presentation, length of phrases and the mental incongruity created by the inspirational and humorous phrases, subjects’ ratings of humor explained an additional 50 percent of the variance in recall performance. That indicates the perception of humor can impact what we remember even after all of these other variables are controlled. “That’s a very large effect to observe, as a 25 percent variance generally is considered a large effect,” Dr. Carlson said.
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That advertisement can still be recalled clearly by many people even though it aired all the way back in 2000,
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its crazy how people can remember commercials from 12 years ago but have trouble remembering what they had for dinner two days ago
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In all cases, the humorous posters were more easily recalled than the inspirational posters
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In order for humor to be beneficial to advertisers, Dr. Carlson says the humor used in an ad must be closely linked to the advertised product, such as GEICO’s gecko commercials.
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That's a clever use of marketing. Do you think GEICO knew that people would remember them better?
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“Understanding memory is essential because who are we without our memories?” said Dr. Carlson, who plans to pursue his research into humor and memory further by investigating whether emotion is connected to humor and memory.
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“In the real world there are other factors affecting memory that can’t be controlled,” he said. “Ads that are too funny are often remembered more for being funny than for promoting a particular product.”
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this could be bad if all info is masked behind jokes and no content is remembered
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Deepak Chopra: Video Games Can Promote Higher Consciousness, Accelerate Brain Developme... - 1 views
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pak Chopra
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In fact, Chopra hopes to eventually prove this with Leela, and he plans to show his neurological cohorts once the game is complete.
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My hope is to be able to do a functional resonance scan on somebody’s brain and show in six months how this brain is way more evolved than when it first started playing the game. So that’s one end of the spectrum.”
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Moonwalking with Einstein: How to Hack Your Memory | Brain Pickings - 1 views
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that there’s far more potential in our minds than we often give them credit for
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niquely human
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If memory is uniquely human...animals don't have memory? Or do they have a different kind of memory? There seem to be some animals that remember the exact place where they laid their eggs a year ago and things like that.
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Moonwalking with Einstein works as a mnemonic because it’s such a goofy image.
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After a while, can this stop working? What if you get so used to thinking of goofy things that they seem normal? And how much time do you have to spend visualizing this in order for it to stick?
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much bigger: that it’s possible, with training and hard work, to teach oneself to do something that might seem really difficult.”
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This is a super huge lesson! It's like the lesson that everything always comes to...practice makes perfect! This is like what they were talking about in "The Brain" movie, where the amazing athletes train their bodies to do incredible things with ease through lots of hard work.
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Those questions are precisely what science writer Joshua Foer sought to unravel when he set out to cover and compete in the U.S. Memory Championship
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This article/book is based on the findings of this one guy. Just because it worked for him, does that mean it'll work for the rest of society? Maybe he was just a super genius and didn't know it...
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Why do we remember, and how? Is there a finite capacity to our memory reservoir?
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Things that are weird or colorful are the most memorable.
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Out of Character: The Psychology of Good and Evil - 1 views
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Aristotle
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could you have good without evil? without evil what do we have to compare goodness to? you can't have one without the other, everything would just be considered normal.
