brain- March 11, 2007 Subliminal Messages Might Actually Work. GrumpySimon writes "New research indicates that subliminal messages may actually work. In a paper titled Attentional Load Modulates Responses of Human Primary Visual Cortex to Invisible Stimuli, Bahrani et al. demonstrate that even though stimuli may not be available to consciousness, they are processed by the visual cortex. While I'm sure that marketing agencies all over the world are rubbing their hands in glee at this news, the authors report that...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101747/categories/cognitivePsychology/2007/03/10.html#a887 brain- March 10, 2007 Omega-3s may affect mood and behavior. Omega-3 fatty acids are associated with increased gray matter volume in areas of the brain commonly linked to mood and behavior, according to a University of ... KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence Newshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0101747/categories/cognitivePsychology/2007/03/09.html#a880 HCI- March 7, 2007 Connecting Your Brain to the Game. Emotiv Systems has announced that video-game makers are able to buy Emotiv's electro-encephalograph (EEG) caps and software developer's tool kits so that they can build games that, they claim, can use the electrical signals from a player's brain to c... KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence Newshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0101747/categories/cognitivePsychology/2007/03/07.html#a865 AI- March 7, 2007 Jeff Hawkins' Cortex Sim Platform Available. UnreasonableMan writes "Jeff Hawkins is best known for founding Palm Computing and Handspring, but for the last eighteen months he's been working on his third company, Numenta. In his 2005 book, On Intelligence, Hawkins laid out a theoretical framework describing how the neocortex processes sensory inputs and provides outputs back to the body. Numenta's goal is to build a software model of the human brain capable of face recognition, object...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101747/categories/cognitivePsychology/2007/03/06.html#a863 brain- March 6, 2007 Scientists claim first in using brain scans to predict intentions. Researchers at Berlin's Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience claim they have identified people's decisions about how they would later do a high-level mental activity -- in this case, adding versus subtracting.The researchers inferred t... KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence Newshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0101747/categories/cognitivePsychology/2007/03/06.html#a859 python- March 5, 2007 Sharing knowledge on the web. Joe Gregorio posted a gem the other day. Itbase 's a little tutorial on how to model a common operation on the web validating zipcodes using the principles of the REST architectural style. Along the way, almost certainly without intending to, he taught me some things about the Python programming language that I hadnbase 't known. Joebase 's example uses two features of Python memory-mapped files and array bisection to speed up the search for a zipcode in a...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101747/categories/cognitivePsychology/2007/03/05.html#a857 depression- March 3, 2007 Virtual-Reality Video Game Helps Link Depression To Specific Brain Area. Scientists are using a virtual-reality, three-dimensional video game that challenges spatial memory as a new tool for assessing the link between depression and the hippocampus, the brain's memory hub.... KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence Newshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0101747/categories/cognitivePsychology/2007/03/02.html#a839 brain- March 2, 2007 VR Game Ties Depression To Brain Area. An anonymous reader writes "Science Daily is reporting that scientists are using a VR videogame that challenges spatial memory as a new tool to map out depression in the brain. 'Spatial memory' is how you orient yourself in space and remember how to get to places in the outside world. Researchers have found that depressed people performed poorly on the video game compared, suggesting that their hippocampi (where spatial memory is based) were not working...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101747/categories/cognitivePsychology/2007/03/01.html#a833 brain- March 1, 2007 Brain works more chaotically than previously thought. The brain appears to process information more chaotically than has long been assumed. This is demonstrated by a new study conducted by scientists at th... KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence Newshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0101747/categories/cognitivePsychology/2007/03/01.html#a827 sensors- March 1, 2007 First direct electric link between neurons and light-sensitive nanoparticle films created. The world's first direct electrical link between nerve cells and photovoltaic nanoparticle films has been achieved by researchers at the University of Tex... KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence Newshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0101747/categories/cognitivePsychology/2007/03/01.html#a826 |