Brain Awareness Week is here!

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 8, 2008

We have planned a num­ber of fun posts, start­ing tomor­row, to cel­e­brate Brain Aware­ness Week (March 10–16th). We hope you will enjoy them. Let me share a taste of a few arti­cles you will find here dur­ing the week: — Dr. Adri­an Pre­da, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try at UC Irvine School of Med­i­cine, will help us exercise…

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Brain News: Software, Education, Arts

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 5, 2008 |

A few updates and announce­ments: — 1) My apolo­gies for slow blog­ging, due to trav­el. I par­tic­i­pat­ed yes­ter­day in a fun pan­el dis­cus­sion at ETech on Use Your Head- The Future of Mind Hacks. You can read some take-aways (in Ital­ian, so this may be good brain exer­cise) here. — 2) We will release our…

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Cognitive Neuroscience @ MIT OpenCourseWare

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 28, 2007 |

The great MIT Open­Course­Ware ini­tia­tive offers a lot of free mate­ri­als on Brain and Cog­ni­tive Sci­ences. You can browse lec­ture notes, read­ings, and more on a vari­ety of psy­chol­o­gy and neu­ro­science cours­es. “The human brain is the most com­plex, sophis­ti­cat­ed, and pow­er­ful infor­­ma­­tion-pro­cess­ing device known. To study its com­plex­i­ties, the Depart­ment of Brain and Cognitive…

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