7 posts and columns on neuroscience

Amazing Video: Learning Neuroscience by Making a Cockroach Dance

in News on March 12 at 9:22 am PT

Greg Gage is on a mission to get kids excited about neuroscience by helping them understand how the brain works — in ways that are extremely memorable.
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McGonigal Launches Social Chocolate to Make Life "Gameful"

in Social on January 20, 2011 at 12:07 pm PT

In addition to her new book, “Reality is Broken,” game designer Jane McGonigal is today launching a new company called Social Chocolate to create games that make reality engaging.

Study: Your Brain Isn’t Built for Twitter

in Media on April 14, 2009 at 9:55 am PT

Ever worry that the ever-increasing barrage of status updates from Facebook, Twitter and every other real-time, hey-look-what-I’m-doing and look-what-happened-just-this-very-second service may be outstripping your brain’s capacity to process them? You’re probably right, says a new study from a University of Southern California neuroscience group.
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Oxford Scientist: Facebook Might Ruin Minds

in News on February 25, 2009 at 1:34 pm PT

The perennial debate about whether fun technology is actually terrible for us has gotten a new spin in the U.K. In an interview with the Daily Mail, Oxford University neuroscientist Susan Greenfield warns that repeated exposure to blips of information from fast-paced TV shows, videogames–and now also social-networking sites such as Facebook–might essentially “rewire” the brain.