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Chris Chatham is a grad student at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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February 25, 2008

Do We See With the Future? Prediction and Object Recognition

Category: Cognitive Neuroscience

How does the human brain construct intelligent behavior? Computational models have proposed several mechanisms to accomplish this: the most well known is "Hebbian learning," a process mathematically similar to both principal components analysis and Bayesian statistics. But other neural learning...

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February 14, 2008

Illusions of Touch: Some things to try on your valentine...

Category:  BPR 

Well, it's not quite as erotic as it sounds, but they could break the ice on more than a few Valentine's dates. Hayward's new article in Brain Research Bulletin describes all known tactile illusions. Some can be tried easily at...

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February 11, 2008

Caffeine: A User's Guide to Getting Optimally Wired

Category: Cognitive Neuroscience

Caffeine is the most widely used stimulant in the world, but few use it to maximal advantage. Get optimally wired with these tips....

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February 5, 2008

From Mind to Hand: Hidden Knowledge Revealed and Enhanced By Gesture

Category:  BPR 

We often assume that true understanding is conveyed through spoken speech rather than gesture, but new research shows that "talking with your hands" can not only reveal different information than spoken language, it can be both more correct and yield...

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February 4, 2008

Discovering the Future: Development of the Mind's Time Machine

Category:  BPR 

When do we learn to imagine the future, and how is that capacity based on imagining the past? How does this kind of "mental time travel" develop? Lagatutta's recent article in Child Development tracks the development of this impressive feat,...

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