Noz Urbina
My links to research and articles on cognitive science which lend lessons to content strategy, content modelling, domain modelling, and content marketing.
Most adults do not remember anything before the age of 3 or 4, a gap that researchers had chalked up to the vagaries of the still-developing infant brain. By some accounts, the infant brain was just not equipped to remember much. Textbooks referred to the deficiency as infant amnesia.
You have finally finished writing your article. You've sweat over your choice of words and agonized about the best way to arrange them to effectively get your point across. You comb for errors, and by the time you publish you are absolutely certain that not a single typo survived.
You can stimulate more happy chemicals with fewer side effects when you understand the job your happy chemicals evolved to do. Here's a natural way to stimulate each, and to avoid unhappy chemicals. #1 Dopamine (Embrace a new goal) Approaching a reward triggers dopamine.
Another study has found that marijuana use is associated with changes in the brain. The study compared the brains of chronic users with non-users and discovered the former had less volume in a region that is involved in decision making and emotional processing.
Photo credit: Steve Petrucelli, "Game on" via Flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 " Video games damage the brain," " video games can alter children's brains," " video games boost brain power." These are all headlines that have popped up over the years, and they're helping paint a thoroughly confusing picture about how gaming might be affecting the brain.
Humans and their primate cousins are well known for their intelligence and social abilities. You hear them called bird-brained, but birds have demonstrated a great deal of intelligence in many tasks. However, little is known about their social skills. A new study shows that ravens are socially savvier than we give them credit for.
