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What Were You Thinking!?: Teenagers show different processing of positive and negative consequences across adolescence

August 23, 2018August 23, 2018 Jack-Morgan Mizell 0 Comments Adolescence, Adolescent, Adults, Aging, Anterior insula, Brain, Brain activity, Brain vulnerability, Cognitive neuroscience, Consequences, Decision-making, Development, Experience, Harvard, Insula, neurobiology, Neurodevelopment, Neuroscience, Sensory systems, Spindle neuron, Striatum, Teenagers, Teens, Von Economo neuron, WHO, World Health Organization

Anyone who has spent time around teenagers knows they don’t always consider the full consequences of their actions. Just consider the dozens of YouTube videos involving falling dressers or fireworks… Read more

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You’re Not as Rational as You Think: Political Philosophy and the Science of Irrationality

August 17, 2017August 17, 2017 DanielToker 0 Comments 2004 Presidential Election, Amygdala, George W. Bush, Insula, irrationality, John Kerry, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience, philosopher-kings, Plato, political philosophy, Politics, presidential election, reason

ognitive scientists have known for decades that humans are inherently irrational when it comes to making economic decisions. This may seem obvious to a good poker player, who will likely… Read more

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The emotional mechanics of the robot-human interaction

August 12, 2015March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 5 Comments Amygdala, Emotion, Insula, mentalizing network, MRI, MTN, Nao, person perception network, PPN, Robot, Robot-human interaction, Uncanny valley

First impressions are pivotal. While reading another person’s cues, an abridged version of them forms as we draw on complex social inferences in merely seconds of interaction. That is, if… Read more

Brain Basics Did You Know?

Bet on your Brain: The Psychology of Winning

April 9, 2014March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 0 Comments Adapt, Amygdala, Anatomy, Anterior cingulate, Brain, Dopamine, Emotions, Exercise, Focus, Hippocampus, Insula, Medial temporal lobe, Memory, Neuroanatomy, Nucleus accumbens, Orbitofrontal cortex, Prefrontal Cortex, Psychology, Resilience, Rewire, Striatum, Ventral Tegmental Area, Winning

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