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Archive for 'Cognitive'

Less power impairs the mind

Posted by Ricki Sharpe on May 28, 2008 
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If it seems your neurons aren’t firing as they should, you may be working in a position of low power. According to new research published in the May issue of Psychological Science, being placed in a position of low-power may impair your basic cognitive functioning.

Brain activated by fair treatment

Posted by Ricki Sharpe on April 24, 2008 
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The human brain responds to being treated fairly the same way it responds to winning money and eating chocolate, UCLA scientists report. Being treated fairly turns on the brain’s reward circuitry.

Sleeping on the job improves memory

Posted by Ricki Sharpe on March 28, 2008 
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We all know people who sleep on the job. Now they can say it actually improves their mental performance, if they get caught. According to a new study, taking a mere six minute power nap is enough to replenish a person’s memory abilities. In fact, this brief nap can have the same effect as night time sleep on memory.

Intuition: is there such a thing?

Posted by Ricki Sharpe on March 10, 2008 
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Most of us experience gut feelings we can’t explain, such as making snap judgements that bring surprising results. In hindsight, we don’t know how we come to such spur of the moment conclusions, but they just seem to work out. Now researchers at Leeds say these feelings – or intuitions – are real and we should take our hunches seriously.

What is intelligence?

Posted by Ricki Sharpe on March 4, 2008 
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We are about as smart as we are going to get. So said James Flynn in a recent lecture to the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce(UK). James Flynn, after whom the Flynn Effect was named, is Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand and author of the recently published What is Intelligence—Beyond the Flynn Effect.

Are we getting smarter or dumber?

Posted by Ricki Sharpe on February 25, 2008 
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After years on the increase, average intelligence test performance could be in decline. That’s according to Thomas Teasdale and David Owen who took advantage of the Danish tradition of testing the intelligence of all 18-year-old men being considered for conscription into military service.

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