EXTREME DREAM ARGUMENTS ⏱15:34
how your brain does maths while you dream, the brain differences between agreeing and disagreeing with someone, & why extreme opinions slow down decisions
episode #4, 26th February 2021 #sleep #lucid #agreement #FNIRS #EEG #stats image source
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our main brain stories this episode...
PEOPLE CAN ANSWER QUESTIONS WHILE ASLEEP
the ability to communicate with researchers while asleep is an exciting prospect for brain science. 1 in 12 of the volunteers in this study might have been able to do it. sometimes. a bit [read more...]
this story was in episode #4. original article: Konkoly et al., 2021 (Current Biology), reported in: Scientific American by Diana Kwon on 18th February 2021 & The Independent by Adam Smith on 23rd February 2021 & The Daily Mail by Johnathan Chadwick on 18th February 2021 image source #sleep #EEG #lucid #stats #selection
ratings: Scientific American: The Independent: The Daily Mail:
ARGUING BRAINS REVEAL SOMETHING, MAYBE
pairs of people had their brain activity recorded while taking turns to discuss controversial topics on which they agreed or disagreed. flaws in the experimental design render the results difficult to interpret. convince me otherwise [read more...]
this story was in episode #4. original article: Hirsch et al., 2020 (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience), reported in: The Wall Street Journal by Susan Pinker on 11th February 2021 #fNIRS #agree #disagree #speech
rating: The Wall Street Journal:
EXTREMISTS ARE WORSE AT COGNITIVE TASKS
dozens of cognitive tasks & questionnaires given to hundreds of people in online tests revealed strong relationships between cognitive performance & political, religious, & ethical views. how this relates to actual extremism is unknown [read more...]
this story was in episode #4. original article: Zmigrod et al., 2021 (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B: Biological Sciences), reported in: The Guardian by Natalie Grover on 22nd February 2021 #personality #extremism #conservatism
rating: The Guardian:
WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOUR BRAIN THIS WEEK
caffeine shrinks your hippocampus, but cocoa improves memory; laying too long in bed causes depression, but too short causes dementia; eating apples helps dementia, while singing in a choir helps you write contradictory tabloid headlines [read more...]
this story was in episode #4. reported in: The Daily Mail by Johnathan Chadwick on 18th February 2021 & The Daily Mail by Johnathan Chadwick on 16th February 2021 & The Daily Mail by Johnathan Chadwick on 12th February 2021 & The Daily Mail by Dan Avery on 12th February 2021 & The Daily Mail by Ryan Morrison on 18th February 2021 & by Johnathan Chadwick on 12th February 2021 #brain #fog #headline #contradiction
LESLIE UNGERLEIDER (1946-2020)
scientific journals and societies mourn the loss of the pioneering and productive scientist professor leslie ungerleider, who sorted out the primate visual system in 1982 [read more...]
this story was in episode #4. original articles: Behrmann, 2021 (Nature Neuroscience), Kastner, 2021 (Neuron), image source #vision #stream #dorsal #ventral #what #where