When you have a hammer, everything can look like a nail and people have been banging the shit out of Inception. The sci-fi movie of the year has attracted numerous ‘neuroscience of Inception’ reviews despite the fact that the film has little to say about the brain and is clearly more inspired by the psychological [...]
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September 5, 2010
The labyrinth of Inception
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August 25, 2010
June 23, 2010
Neuroscientists can predict your behavior better than you can
In a study with implications for the advertising industry and public health organizations, neuroscientists have shown they can use brain scanning to predict whether people will use sunscreen in the next week better than the people themselves can predict whether they will do so. This is the first persuasion study in neuroscience to predict behavior change.
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February 10, 2010
Brain skulls on the front, splatters on the back
You wait ages for a neuroscience-themed dress to appear (and believe me, I have) and then two come along at once.After my discovery of neuro streetwear for the female fashonista last week, comes a brain themed tutu dress for the riotgrrl neuroscientist.The description is actually quite poetic:Brain skulls on the front, splatters on front and back. Distressed style: Imagery has unique cracks, spla
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February 5, 2010
Time to think
Bioemphemera has found some wonderfully left-field brain illustrations by Dutch graphic designer Rhonald Blommestijn. The image on the left is a brain made out of clocks.Blommestijn's blog is full of strikingly surreal eye-candy that manages both to inspire a feeling of wide-eyed wonder and illustrate scientific themes.They're certainly very original takes on the subject and the neuroscience imag
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January 7, 2010
A clarion call for a decade of disorder
This week's Nature has an excellent editorial calling for a greater focus on the science of mental illness and summarising the challenges facing psychology and neuroscience in tackling these complex conditions.It's generally a very well-informed piece, but it does make one widely repeated blunder in the last sentence of this paragraph:Frustratingly, the effectiveness of medications has stalled. N
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January 5, 2010
The Neuroscience of MySpace
How does popularity affect how we judge music?We tend to say we like what other people like. No-one wants to stand out and risk ridicule by saying they don't enjoy universally loved bands, like The Beatles... unless they're trying to fit into a subculture where everyone hates The Beatles.But do people just pretend to like what others like, or can perceived popularity actually change musical prefe
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December 8, 2009
Encephalon 79 ends the year
The 79th edition of the Encephalon psychology and neuroscience writing carnival has just been published online with this edition appearing on the mighty Mouse Trap blog.A couple of my favourites include coverage of a fascinating experiment on Neuronarrative that managed to induce false memories of completing certain actions and another on the recent badly reported 'sweets linked to childhood viol
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December 4, 2009
November 29, 2009
Encephalon 78 saunters in
The 78th edition of the Encephalon psychology and neuroscience writing carnival has recently appeared on the Providentia blog with the latest in mind and brain writing from the blogosphere.A couple of my favourites include a piece on The Mousetrap about the self in the eyes of the founding father of cognitive psychology - Ulrich Neisser, and a post that review robots controlled by brain simulatio
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