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Sleeping on the job improves memory

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.

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Intuition: is there such a thing?

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.

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What is intelligence?

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.

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Are we getting smarter or dumber?

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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Beware! Advertisers read your mind

First came direct marketing, then focus groups. Now, advertisers, with the help of neuroscientists, are closing in on the holy grail: mind reading. At least, that’s what is suggested in a paper published in Human Brain Mapping authored by a group of researchers in advertising and communication and neuroscience at the University of Florida.

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