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James Schreier
December 17, 2013 8:02 AM
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First of all, what is cognition? Cognition has to do with how a person understands and acts in the world.
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James Schreier
December 9, 2013 9:35 AM
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Did you make it to work on time this morning? Go ahead and thank the traffic gods, but also take a moment to thank your brain. The brain’s impressively accurate internal clock allows us to...
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James Schreier
December 9, 2013 9:34 AM
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There Is No Left-Brain/Right-Brain Divide (Time):
“Scientists have long known that the popular left-brain/right-brain story doesn’t hold water. Here’s why.
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James Schreier
December 9, 2013 9:30 AM
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Are the two orange circles of the same size? One way to understand more about the brain is to look at how we can trick it, that is, to look at how the brain reacts to teasers and visual illusions.
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James Schreier
November 22, 2013 9:04 AM
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Test your brain and improve your cognitive ability. Try these fun experiments and Brain Exercises and Games for your Brain for Cognitive Development and Brain Improvement.
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James Schreier
November 11, 2013 10:23 AM
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How good are you at multi-tasking? The way you answer that question may tell you more than you think. According to recent research, the better people think they are at multitasking, the worse they...
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James Schreier
November 4, 2013 6:35 AM
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It’s nearing Halloween, so it’s time for a story that will chill you to the bone. It’s the story of how a group of hackers turned one man’s life upside down. And here’s what’s even more disturbing- he asked for it.
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Jim Schreier
October 27, 2013 6:12 PM
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Critical thinking is an increasingly important skill that has been overlooked by many as information becomes more accessible and superfluous.
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James Schreier
October 21, 2013 6:54 AM
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Okay, not everything, but participating in my high school debate team certainly helped me develop, practice, and refine my critical thinking skills.
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James Schreier
October 14, 2013 2:48 PM
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Deborah Rozman
What excites you the most about your job?
As the CEO of HeartMath, I love our mission of expanding consciousness and our daily work to help people build resilience and emotional coherence.
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James Schreier
October 8, 2013 3:55 PM
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How important is reading fiction in socializing school children? Researchers at The New School in New York City have found evidence that literary fiction improves a reader’s capacity to...
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James Schreier
September 30, 2013 3:41 PM
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For people who have a need to feel in control, making a choice about health treatments strengthens their chosen treatment’s psychological component, says a team led by Andrew L. Geers of the University of Toledo in Ohio.
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James Schreier
September 23, 2013 8:57 AM
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Consumers selected round prices and/or sales-totals at greater than chance levels across two different pay-what-you-want situations and one self-pumped gasoline purchase. The differences among these situations suggest that the tendency to select round prices/sales-totals reflects a subjective preference (or liking) for round prices and not a variety of other potential explanatory processes. Discussion focuses on possible economic consequences of this revealed preference for round prices as well as directions for future research.
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James Schreier
December 12, 2013 9:44 AM
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In an organizational context, middle managers are the glue that binds strategy at the top with execution on the floor. The role of middle managers is very
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James Schreier
December 9, 2013 9:35 AM
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What’s going on in the brain when we reason, create, and imagine? [More]
-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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James Schreier
December 9, 2013 9:33 AM
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Study subjects who focus on a person’s body rather than his or her mind rank that person as more experienced and more sensitive to emotion and pain
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James Schreier
November 26, 2013 8:07 AM
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A brain-training company's huge data set reveals nuances of learning and intelligence
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James Schreier
November 18, 2013 2:40 PM
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Look around. Do you see four walls or an expansive vista? The answer could influence your ability to think creatively. A growing body of research suggests that our sensory experiences can trigger...
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James Schreier
November 11, 2013 10:22 AM
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A trolley is hurtling down a track, and if nobody intervenes it will hit and kill five people. Psychologists use variations on this hypothetical situation to gauge people's gut reactions about morality.
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James Schreier
October 27, 2013 6:15 PM
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Do we all have “attention deficits”? Or is there something else going on? Let’s try this little experiment, conceived by Simons and Chabris for their classic study on sustained inattentional blindness.
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James Schreier
October 21, 2013 10:01 AM
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Look instead for the person bold enough to say “I don’t know.”
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James Schreier
October 14, 2013 2:51 PM
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Ellen Somers, MA, LMHC
What is your name, job title and organization, and what excites you the most about working there?
As Coordinator of Cognitive Health Services at St.
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James Schreier
October 8, 2013 3:57 PM
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Humans like being around other humans. We are extraordinarily social animals. In fact, we are so social, that simply interacting with other people has been shown to be use similar brain...
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James Schreier
October 8, 2013 2:10 PM
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New research documents the negative consequences of media multitasking.
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James Schreier
September 23, 2013 1:19 PM
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What do Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Charles Darwin, J.K. Rowling, and Rosa Parks have in common? They are all people who made an impact on …
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