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IBM Creates the Most Detailed Map of the Brain To Date [Science]

In a paper published earlier this week, IBM researchers made huge strides in mapping the architecture of the brain, charting three times as many connections as any previous study. Where does such a map lead? The future of cognitive computing. More
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Gene Makes Some Drink More When Other Boozers Are Around

People who inherit a particular gene variant that tweaks the brain's reward system are especially likely to drink a lot of alcohol in the company of heavy-boozing peers.
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Mind-controlled prosthetic arm

Jul 14 - An Austrian amputee is the first in Europe to be fitted with a new-generation mind-controlled prosthetic limb that moves and feels like a real arm, receiving commands from the brain and sending input back. Stuart McDill reports.
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Boost Your Brainstorming with the Six Thinking Hats Method [Mind Hacks]

Six Thinking Hats is a thinking methodology based on the premise that the human brain thinks and processes information in six distinct ways: via questions, emotions, bad and good points judgment, creativity, and thinking (or more accurately, meta-thinking). Huh-wha? More
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Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains

The internet's scattered bits of information seize our brain then scramble it, Nicholas Carr explains in The Shallows . The result: We skim and multitask better than we read and think deeply.
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The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains

As one group of scientists find effects of the Internet on our brains, other neuroscientists point out that we've been here before and the Web is actually good for our brains.
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Your Brain on Computers: Attached to Technology and Paying a Price

Scientists say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information from e-mail, phone calls and other interruptions.
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Your Brain on Computers: Attached to Technology and Paying a Price

Scientists say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information from e-mail, phone calls and other interruptions.
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Book Review – The Shallows – What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains – By Nicholas Carr

A technology writer maintains we’re trading away the seriousness of sustained attention for the Web’s frantic superficiality.
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Book Review – The Shallows – What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains – By Nicholas Carr

A technology writer maintains we’re trading away the seriousness of sustained attention for the Web’s frantic superficiality.
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