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On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not

August 18, 2008 by Dr. Ginger Campbell

Where does our “Feel­ing of Know­ing” come from? Have you ever felt cer­tain that you knew an answer even though you could­n’t think of it right off? Where does that “feel­ing of know­ing” come from? The answer to this ques­tion is the focus of neu­rol­o­gist Robert Bur­ton’s new book On Being Cer­tain: Believ­ing You Are Right Even When You’re Not.

I recent­ly reviewed Dr. Bur­ton’s book on the Brain Sci­ence Pod­cast and last week I had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to inter­view him for the show. He explained that one of the ori­gins for his book was his expe­ri­ence with patients with con­di­tions like Cotard’s syn­drome (where the patient thinks he is dead or does not exist). What Dr. Bur­ton calls the “feel­ing of know­ing” is so strong that peo­ple con­sis­tent­ly trust it even when their beliefs con­tra­dict the evi­dence. At first it might seem sur­pris­ing that this feel­ing is gen­er­at­ed at an uncon­scious lev­el in our brain, yet the same sort of pro­cess­ing cre­ates the world we see and hear. It is well-known that what we see is not what enters our eyes, but [Read more…] about On Being Cer­tain: Believ­ing You Are Right Even When You’re Not

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: belief, brain, Brain-health, Brain-Science-Podcast, Cotard’s-syndrome, emotional-signals, evidence, Feeling-of-Knowing, Ginger-Campbell, gut-feelings, implications, intuition, logic, logical-reasoning, neurologist, on-being-certain, optical-illusions, processing, Robert-Burton, testing, tolerant

Mind Hacks and the Placebo Effect

March 7, 2008 by Alvaro Fernandez

Placebo effect, mind hacksIn the ETech pan­el a few days ago, we dis­cussed some futur­is­tic and some emerg­ing ways in which we can “hack our minds”, most­ly from a tech­nol­o­gy point of view.

Nei­ther myself nor the oth­er pan­elists thought of sug­gest­ing the most obvi­ous and inex­pen­sive method, proven in thou­sands of research studies.

The secret com­pound?: Belief. Also called “the place­bo effect”. Let’s see what Wikipedia says:

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: belief, ETech, hack-our-minds, medicines, Mind-Hacks, placebo, Placebo-Effect, sugar-pill, suggestion, therapeutic-effect

Brain Teaser for the Frontal Lobes: Tipping the Scales

June 15, 2007 by Caroline Latham

Here is a new brain teas­er from puz­zle mas­ter Wes Carroll.

Tip­ping the Scales

free brain teasers for frontal lobes

Ques­tion:
The top two scales are in per­fect bal­ance. How many dia­monds will be need­ed to bal­ance the bot­tom set?

This puz­zle works your exec­u­tive func­tions in your frontal lobes by using your pat­tern recog­ni­tion, hypoth­e­sis test­ing, and logic.
ANSWER:

Four dia­monds

SOLUTION:

First add up the num­ber of clubs in the first two scales (5). Then count how many clubs are in the bot­tom scale (5). The do the same with the spades, which gets you 5 and 5. There are 4 dia­monds in the top two bal­anced scales. There­fore, it must take 4 dia­monds to bal­ance the third scale since all the oth­er mea­sure­ments are the same.

 

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers Tagged With: aerobic-exercise, Barry-Gordon, belief, Brain Teasers, Brain-exercises, Brain-Health-Across-the-Lifespan, Learning-&-the-Brain-Conference, memory-techniques, new-brain-cells

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