Test your Brain with these Teasers and Visual Illusions

Are the two orange cir­cles of the same size? One way to under­stand more about the brain is to look at how we can trick it, that is, to look at how the brain reacts to teasers and visu­al illu­sions. Here are 10 visu­al illu­sions to com­bine fun and learn­ing about the visu­al sys­tem. We know you…

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February Update: Retooling Brain Health for the 21st Century

Wel­come to the Feb­ru­ary edi­tion of Sharp­Brains month­ly eNewslet­ter: First Report of the Coun­cil on the Age­ing Soci­ety: Glob­al Pol­i­cy jour­nal pub­lish­es the full Pol­i­cy Prin­ci­ples and call to action out­lined by the Glob­al Agen­da Coun­cil on the Age­ing Soci­ety, an ini­tia­tive run by the World Eco­nomic Forum which our CEO Alvaro Fer­nan­dez was hon­ored to…

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Visual Illusions in Art and Science

The fol­low­ing is an excerpt from “Sleights of Minds: What the Neu­ro­science of Mag­ic Reveals about Our Every­day Decep­tions.” by Stephen L. Mack­nik and Susana Mar­tinez-Conde with San­dra Blakeslee, pub­lished by Hen­ry Holt and Co., LLC © 2010 by  Stephen L. Mack­nik and Susana Mar­tinez-Conde. Visu­al illu­sions are fas­ci­nat­ing. They have both been used by…

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Encephalon #61: Brain & Mind Reading for the Holidays

Wel­come to the 61st edi­tion of Encephalon, the blog car­ni­val that offers some of the best neu­ro­science and psy­chol­o­gy blog posts every oth­er week. We do have an excel­lent set of arti­cles today. cov­er­ing much ground. Enjoy the read­ing: — Neu­ro­science and Soci­ety  Neu­roan­thro­pol­o­gy, by Greg Downey The Fly­nn Effect: Trou­bles with Intel­li­gence Aver­age IQ test…

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