Entries Tagged as 'brain'

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Henry Markram and the Human Brain Project are in talks with EU for $1.61 billion to achieve human brain emulation by 2024

via nextbigfuture.com “Henry Markram, a neuroscientist at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland, has assembled a team of nine top European scientists for the research effort to build a computer model of a human brain. The Human Brain Project is in discussion with the EU for a £1billion (US$1.61 billion) grant.” Hat tip to [...]

Sunday, April 3rd, 2011

Test scores bear little correlation to real-life success

high-stakes tests are often spectacularly bad at predicting performance in the real world. Though the SAT does a decent job of predicting the grades of college freshmen—the test accounts for about 12% of the individual variation in grade point average—it is much less effective at predicting levels of achievement after graduation. Professional academic tests suffer [...]

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

You can increase your intelligence: 5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential

Although the data from those early studies showed dismal results, I wasn’t discouraged. I still believed it was possible to significantly increase your cognitive functioning, given the proper training—since I had seen it with my own eyes through my work as a therapist. Then in 2008, a very exciting study was published, Improving Fluid Intelligence [...]

Monday, March 28th, 2011

How To Have A Rational Discussion

via thoughtcatalog.com

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Damage to One Brain Region Can Boost “Transcendent” Feelings | 80beats | Discover Magazine

By observing brain cancer patients before and after brain surgery, researchers in Italy have found that damage to the posterior part of the brain, specifically in an area called the parietal cortex, can increase patients’ feelings of “self transcendence,” or feeling at one with the universe. The parietal cortex is the region that is is [...]

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Lobes of Steel

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/sports/playmagazine/0819play-brain.html?ex=1188273600&en=842c3ba0d994a5cf&ei=5070 “….Scientists have suspected for decades that exercise, particularly regular aerobic exercise, can affect the brain. But they could only speculate as to how. Now an expanding body of research shows that exercise can improve the performance of the brain by boosting memory and cognitive processing speed. Exercise can, in fact, create a stronger, faster [...]