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Inc. September 1, 2002 Thea Singer |
The Innovation Factor: Your Brain on Innovation Want to know what makes a creative genius tick? Neuroscience gives us some clues. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2013 Eliza Strickland |
A Wiring Diagram of the Brain Advances in medical imaging allow the Human Connectome Project to map neural connections |
Technology Research News October 3, 2005 Eric Smally |
USC's Michael Arbib The Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science shares his views on trends in science and technology, his work, and the links between technology, neuroscience, and behavior. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2012 Mark Anderson |
This Is Your Brain on fMRI The science of mind reading is further along than you might think |
Wired March 23, 2009 Jonah Lehrer |
Scientists Map the Brain, Gene by Gene I'm in the dissection room of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, and the scientist next to me is in a hurry. |
Wired August 2001 Jennifer Kahn |
Let's Make Your Head Interactive The Human Brain Project is combining wet anatomy with next-gen scanning, imaging, and networking to give neuroscience a revolutionary new tool -- the globally accessible online mind... |
IEEE Spectrum August 2012 Steve Furber |
Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons A miniature, massively parallel computer, powered by a million ARM processors, could produce the best brain simulations yet |
AskMen.com Jonathan Harvey |
Improve Your Mind With Music Do you think it's possible to become smarter and think more clearly with music? Can someone become a more effective learner, reader and thinker without even breaking a sweat? |
Inc. May 2009 Leigh Buchanan |
Charles Jacobs Goes Inside the Entrepreneur's Brain Leading corporate consultant, Charles Jacobs discusses how brain structure can impact business management. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 26, 2012 Carmen Nobel |
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire It's easy for businesses to keep track of what we buy, but harder to figure out why. Enter a nascent field called neuromarketing, which uses the tools of neuroscience to determine why we prefer some products over others. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 |
Let's Get Small Tim Harris develops tools neuroscientists can use to measure the brain's activity, to give them a quantitative view inside the elaborate structure of the brain. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2012 Jose M. Carmena |
How to Control a Prosthesis With Your Mind New brain-machine interfaces that exploit the plasticity of the brain may allow people to control prosthetic devices in a natural way. |
Fast Company August 8, 2011 Adam L. Penenberg |
NeuroFocus Uses Neuromarketing To Hack Your Brain Intel, PayPal, Pepsi, Google, HP, Citi, and Microsoft are spending millions to plumb your mind. Here's how it's done. |
Popular Mechanics June 1, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Brain Man: Questions for Neuroergonomics Expert Raja Parasuraman It's a merger of neuroscience, the study of the brain, with ergonomics, the study of how to design systems and technologies to be more compatible with what we know about human capabilities and limitations. |
Chemistry World July 2, 2013 Jeanne Therese Andres |
Mapping receptors in the brain Scientists from the UK and Germany have developed new compounds that target and bind to brain proteins linked to serious neurological disorders. |
Entrepreneur January 2006 Mark Henricks |
Gray Matters As science unlocks more and more of your brain's secrets, learn how harnessing the power of your greatest asset can create a more productive, more persuasive, more competitive business. |
CIO August 18, 2011 Agam Shah |
IBM Brings Brain Power to Experimental Chips IBM makes chips based on the structure and operation of the human brain. |
AskMen.com Ryan Murphy |
Hitting Your Peak: Mental Power Regardless of how much you use or abuse your noggin, you'll eventually hit a time in your life when your cognitive and creative powers are working at their optimal levels. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2010 Versace & Chandler |
MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors DARPA's new memristor-based approach to Artificial Intelligence consists of a chip that mimics how neurons process information |
Wired October 2004 Jennifer Kahn |
If You Secretly Like Michael Bolton, We'll Know A proud nerd puts her prefrontal cortex on the line to discover why brain mapping is the new trend spotting (and the hottest trend in brain science). |
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Prachi Patel |
Laser Probes for Brain Experiments Laser-activated probes stimulate brain cells better, say scientists |
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 R. John Davenport |
Wired for Smell Circuits of excitation and inhibition help the brain interpret odors. |
Fast Company Belle Beth Cooper |
The Secret To Creativity, Intelligence, And Scientific Thinking Lots of great writers, artists and scientists have talked about the importance of collecting ideas and bits of knowledge from the world around us, and making connections between those dots. |
Chemistry World February 24, 2011 Carl Saxton |
Mapping brain networks US scientists have created a model of the ring-shaped networks of neurons in the brain, which could help researchers to understand small changes within diseased brain cells. |
Scientific American February 2009 Gary Stix |
"Lazy Eye" Treatments Provide New Insight on Brain Plasticity Studies show how adult brains can be rewired back to a younger state. |
Scientific American April 2007 Michael Shermer |
Free to Choose The neuroscience of choice exposes the power of ideas. |
Wired March 2005 Richard Martin |
Mind Control Matt Nagle is paralyzed. He's also a pioneer in the new science of brain implants. |
PC Magazine November 29, 2006 |
Brain Chip University of Washington researchers have demonstrated an implantable device in live animals that can record signals from one part of the brain and send the impulses to a different part of the brain. |
Reason April 2005 Kenneth Silber |
Are We Just Really Smart Robots? Two books on the mind put the human back into human beings: On Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee... Mind: A Brief Introduction, by John R. Searle... |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Virginia Hughes |
Glimpsing Inside a Moving Fruit Fly's Brain Vivek Jayaraman wants to capture, in real time, how the fly's brain responds to a changing environment. Ultimately, he hopes to uncover very basic patterns -- "algorithms" -- of fly brain activity that hold true in more complex brains including, presumably, ours. |
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Rabiya Tuma |
Sister Act As a systems neuroscientist, Yang Dan integrates functional studies in animals with computer programs, computational tools, and statistics. |
Popular Mechanics November 18, 2009 Douglas Fox |
IBM Reveals the Biggest Artificial Brain of All Time This computer simulation, as large as a cat's brain, blows away the previous record -- a simulated rat's brain with 55 million neurons -- built by the same team two years ago. |
BusinessWeek November 8, 2004 Catherine Arnst |
Redefining Smart Jeff Hawkins tackles his greatest passion, the study of the brain, in his new book "On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines." |
IEEE Spectrum January 2010 Sally Adee |
Cat-Brain Fever Two simulations and an angry e-mail reveal the conflicting goals of supercomputer brain modeling |
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Corinna Wu |
Mouse Cam Tracking techniques offer a long-term view into the mouse brain. |
Popular Mechanics July 7, 2008 Erik Sofge |
For Future of Mind Control, Robot-Monkey Trials Are Just a Start A study in the journal Nature this spring all but confirmed the latest evolution in the hard-charging, heady field of cybernetics: Monkeys can control machines with their brains. |
National Defense July 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Think Again: Brain Models to Advance Decision Making Being able to understand and predict when and how that bias might interfere with the analytical process - and finding a way to mitigate it - could improve the accuracy and speed of intelligence information that military commanders ultimately rely upon to make critical decisions. |
Fast Company October 2008 |
Iconoclasts: The Top Five Creative Minds They do what others say can't be done. How? By seeing things differently. |
Psychology Today Jul/Aug 2008 Rebecca Webber |
Mesearch Some investigators take the quest for self-knowledge to the extreme: Meet five researchers who applied their scientific minds to the defining challenges in their own lives. |
Wired March 2007 Evan Ratliff |
The Thinking Machine Jeff Hawkins created the Palm Pilot and the Treo. Now he says he's got the ultimate invention: software that mimics the human brain. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Morgen E. Peck |
Researchers Testing New Electric Treatment for Migraines A small DC current through the skull seems to interrupt the headaches and may even prevent them |
Chemistry World March 2, 2009 James Urquhart |
Shining a light on neural activity US researchers have developed a new way to activate brain neurons that could lead to less invasive methods of restoring function in damaged nerves and brain tissue. |
Wired May 19, 2008 Daniel Carlat |
Brain Scans as Mind Readers? Don't Believe the Hype Can Spect scans of the brain really show our mind in action, or are we allowing ourselves to be seduced by images that may actually tell us very little? |
Wired February 25, 2008 David Wolman |
A Researcher's Puzzles Point to the Differences in the Autistic Brain Some scientists are setting aside the assumption that autistic brains are defective and instead focusing on how the autistic brain is different. |
AskMen.com Bernard Croisile |
5 Daily Brain Exercises Many men are devoted to exercise to bulk up their bodies, but the phrase "use it or lose it" also applies to the neural pathways and connections in our brains. |
AskMen.com Michael J Gelb |
Brain Workout: Part 2 The author shares elements from his upcoming book Brain Power: Improve Your Mind as You Age in our five-day Brain Workout series. Today's chapter is "Improve Memory and Learning Ability as You Age." |
Salon.com September 30, 2002 Matthew Blakeslee |
Madison Avenue and your brain New advances in neuroscience are explaining why people just do it, exactly as they're told to, when that commercial comes on. |
Technology Research News February 25, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
Model keeps virtual eyes right Researchers have developed a computer simulation of the areas in the primate brain that perform initial visual processing. "This model shows that very basic neural feature detectors may actually explain a lot of how attention is directed to particular objects in scenes," |
Financial Advisor January 2012 Mitch Anthony |
'I Saw The Movie' How your clients' brain circuitry may be short-circuiting their investment plans. |
Scientific American July 2007 Michael Shermer |
The Prospects for Homo economicus A new fMRI study debunks the myth that we are rational-utility money maximizers. |