NPR
How The Brain Teases Apart A Song's Words And Music
2 min · · Brain scans show that when people listen to songs, an area in the left hemisphere decodes speech-like sounds while one on the right processes musical information. · Shared by 223, including Dr. Price-Mitchell, Liv 😷, Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute, Jane
Nautilus Magazine
Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient?
9 min · · The brain is complex; in humans it consists of about 100 billion neurons, making on the order of 100 trillion connections. It is often… · Shared by 160, including Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, hiten.eth, Michael Gisiger, Liv 😷, Ward Plunet, Joshua Walker
MIT Technology Review
An algorithm that learns through rewards may show how our brain does too
4 min · · By optimizing reinforcement-learning algorithms, DeepMind uncovered new details about how dopamine helps the brain learn. · Shared by 290, including Yvette Dubel, Vaughan Bell, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Dean of Big Data 🎓 #DOBD, Ines Bieler, Jonathan Kogan, Antonio Vieira Santos, Liv 😷, Philipp Laurim, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Matthias Lampe, Mike Tamir, PhD, Bob E. Hayes, Eric Topol, Katja Evertz, Martin Ford, Gabriele, Ward Plunet, John Nosta, Nige Roberts-Willson
Forge
How to Remember More of What You Read
6 min · · And why your brain makes it so easy to forget · Shared by 792, including Katja Evertz, Gabriele, Ines Bieler, Andrew Ermogenous, Bilal Aslam, Stephanie A Kowalski, Josep M. Ganyet, Andrei Luca, Liv 😷, Faik Ersoy, Christian Surchi, Mark Kaigwa, Filippo Antonio Capizzi, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Rich, Matthias Lampe, Jochen Burkhard
MIT Technology Review
A new implant for blind people jacks directly into the brain
8 min · · Researchers have successfully bypassed the eyes with a brain implant that allows rudimentary vision. · Shared by 139, including Vikram Dutt, Gideonro, Martina Pugliese, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Christian Fauteux, Liv 😷, Amber Mac, Daniel Kraft, MD, John Hagel, John Nosta, Martin Ford, Mike Tamir, PhD, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Thomas Power, Vala Afshar
Neuroscience News
How serotonin balances communication within the brain
4 min · · Study reveals how serotonin plays a key role in the scaling of current sensory input and outgoing brain signals. · Shared by 146, including Tom Connor, Ines Bieler, Peter Sixsmith, Liv 😷, Thomas Power, Matthias Lampe, Jennifer Hurst
WIRED
Scientists Now Know How Sleep Cleans Toxins From the Brain
4 min · · The synchronized brain waves of non-REM sleep may play a key role in preventing toxins from accumulating in a person's brain. · Shared by 169, including Miguel Angel Escotet, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Eric Topol, SusanaDeLeón, MD, Dr. Simon A. Rego, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Rick King, Liv 😷, Chintan Shah, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, John Nosta, David Pearce, Marinel Bijmolt🤓, Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute, Padmasree, Lee Keyes, Vikram Dutt, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA
The Guardian
Are brain implants the future of thinking?
11+ min · · Brain-computer interface technology is moving fast and Silicon Valley is moving in. Will we all soon be typing with our minds? · Shared by 180, including Gerd Leonhard, Graham Brown-Martin, Andreas Staub, Chris Gledhill, Liv 😷, Martina Grolimund, Miguel Angel Escotet, Jane, John Nosta, SusanaDeLeón, MD, Dominik Grolimund, Brian Ahier, Kevin Mitchell @WiringtheBrain@ mstdn .social, Vaughan Bell, Thomas Power
The New York Times
Why Sitting May Be Bad for Your Brain
4 min · · Taking a walk every 30 minutes can restore blood flow to the brain when you’re sitting for hours. · Shared by 126, including Annik Burgdorfer-Grolimund, Marco Unternaehrer, Ward Plunet, HealthyWomen.org, Liv 😷, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, hiten.eth, Chris Kresser, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator
Nautilus Magazine
This Is Your Brain on Silence
10 min · · One icy night in March 2010, 100 marketing experts piled into the Sea Horse Restaurant in Helsinki, with the modest goal of making… · Shared by 263, including stephtara@octodon.social, Anita Leirfall, Florian Hanke 🍎, Alexandra Wong, Howard Getson, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Call Me ❝MICKEY❞, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Jane, Liv 😷, Thomas Power, Ward Plunet, tjalve, Dominik Grolimund, Rachel Botsman, Ibrahim Nergiz, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Rodrigo Prior, Leonid Bugaev, adrianoesch
Aeon+Psyche
Playing chess is an essential life lesson in concentration
11+ min · · The challenge of chess – learning how to hold complexity in mind and still make good decisions – is also the challenge of life · Shared by 573, including Jakub Ferenc, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Miguel Angel Escotet, Julien Bilger, Faik Ersoy, Anita Leirfall, Liv 😷, Bilal Aslam, Mario Clemente, Jesús Torres 👩💻, Logical Analysis, Noah Toly, John Hagel, Ward Plunet
The New Yorker
The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas
9 min · · A mathematician on how to get the mind into motion. · Shared by 312, including Brian Ahier, Anita Leirfall, Brett King #TheFuturists #OptimalHumanity ✈️, Eric Topol, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Ward Plunet, Liv 😷, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Oscar MacDonald, Shawn Venasse, Philanthropy News Digest, Henneke Duistermaat, Jane, Meltem Demirors, Gabriele, Niklaus Gerber, Steve Case, John Nosta, John Hagel
Tim Urban
The Thinking Ladder
· How do you form your beliefs? · Shared by 358, including Lee Keyes, Carly, Scott McLeod, Vikram Dutt, Hampus Jakobsson, Tauno, Tomas Pueyo, Jonathan Kogan, Liv 😷
Nautilus Magazine
How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
12+ min · · I was a wayward kid who grew up on the literary side of life, treating math and science as if they were pustules from the plague.… · Shared by 309, including Florian Hanke 🍎, Will Hoag 🏔‼️, Nils Hitze, Kenneth Kalmer, Dean Yeong, Philipp Laurim, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Jacob Jarnvall, Jane, Brent Summers, Thomas Power, Liv 😷, Weverton Timoteo, Martina Grolimund, Stephen C Sanders, Donneker, Paddy Zab, Dominik Grolimund, Bryan Onel, Brian
nature
Don’t ask if artificial intelligence is good or fair, ask how it shifts power
3 min · · Those who could be exploited by AI should be shaping its projects. · Shared by 361, including Joanna J Bryson, Eric Bailey, Stanford NLP Group, Gerd Leonhard, Dr. Janet D. Stemwedel, PhD 🏳️🌈, Helen Yu, Eric Topol, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), Nige Roberts-Willson, Iain Brown, PhD, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Ronald van Loon, LizNeeley, Caroline Jarrett, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, Rick King, Andreas Staub, Terence Mills, Bob E. Hayes, Vaughan Bell
Brain Pickings
Bruce Lee’s Never-Before-Seen Writings on Willpower, Emotion, Reason, Memory, Imagination, and Confidence
6 min · · “You will never get any more out of life than you expect.” · Shared by 592, including Tris Hussey, Bernhard Huessy, Atul Pradhananga, Dez S. Papp, Paddy Zab, Arin Basu, Florian Hanke 🍎, Johannes Lenz, Thomas Power, Liv 😷, Brandon Uttley, Gabriele, Stephanie A Kowalski, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Dominik Grolimund, Fabrizio Bianchi, Vincent Liu, Rodrigo Noales, Daniel Bentes, Bill Johnston