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An introduction to applied neuroscience
Traditionally, cognitive psychologists have made a distinction among different areas of study: memory, attention, categorization, language acquisition and use, decision-making, and one or two other topics.
Daniel Levitin • The Organized Mind
Collective neuroscience offers a different way of seeing neuropsychiatric conditions such as depression and schizophrenia, for example – not as instances of individual ‘dysfunctions’ in the brain, but as phenomena that emerge from multiple dynamic physiological and social processes. How does one get to the bottom of human cognition if we are intrin... See more
Sofia Quaglia • How the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another
Recent years have seen a huge growth in the public awareness of neuroscience. People have become more interested in new findings about the brain, and also find brain-based explanations quite compelling. This public interest has led enterprising individuals to try to apply neuroscientific ideas to more everyday situations.
Matt Wall • How neuroscience is being used to spread quackery in business and education
The brain is part of the central nervous system (CNS). Similar to the control tower at an airport, your brain acts as its control center, directing all the comings and goings of information, processes, and impulses.
Jim Kwik • Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life
One important one is that the brain is an information-processing machine. That is, it does not aim to merely reproduce messages sent along it, but rather to transform them into action for the animal.