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Learn to Think Better: Tips from a Savant
A greater awareness therefore of the context in which we acquire a particular piece of information can help improve our ability to remember it later on.
Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion
Teller: People take reality for granted.
Multitasking - Switching Costs
"Understanding the hidden costs of multitasking may help people to choose strategies that boost their efficiency – above all, by avoiding multitasking, especially with complex tasks."
What Makes the Human Mind?
Marc Hauser: . . . there are signs that animal evolution passed along some capabilities "and then something dramatic happened, a huge leap that enabled humans to break away.
ISIS 120S-01, English 173S-05: "This is Your Brain on the Internet" Spring 2009
"an educational remix that examines the aesthetic, digital, linguistic, psychological, political, philosophical, computational, ethical, and socio-cultural factors influencing how we know ourselves and our worlds"
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
No, and that is not the question this article is addressing. A better title: Is Google Changing the Way We Think? Yes, if history is any indication.
Older Brain May Be a Wiser Brain
Some brains do deteriorate with age. But for most aging adults, much of what occurs is a gradually widening focus of attention and sifting through a clutter of information that makes it more difficult to latch onto just one fact like a name or a number.
Visualization and Visual Communication - Spring 2007
Robert Kosara's interdisciplinary syllabus on the use of visualization for visual communication. Great stuff.
Visual Analytics - Fall 2007
Robert Kosara's facinating syllabus on the integration of interactive visualization with analytic techniques.
Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind
The brain has a limited capacity for self-regulation, so exerting willpower in one area often leads to backsliding in others. The good news, however, is that practice increases willpower capacity.
Are Human Brains Unique?
"What we don’t know is if the genetic changes caused the cultural changes or were synergistic, and even if they did, what exactly is going on in those big brains and how is it happening? Is it just happening in ours or is it happening but just to a less
The Art of Literature and the Science of Literature
Art and play provoke us to continue the activities they offer long and often enough to modify our neural circuitry over time. "Attention--engagement in the activity--matters before meaning."
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