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Don’t Outsource Your Brain

January 4, 2008 by Alvaro Fernandez

brainWe have sug­gest­ed before (The Ten Habits of High­ly Effec­tive Brains)…

“Don’t Out­source Your Brain. Not to media per­son­al­i­ties, not to politi­cians, not to your smart neigh­bour… Make your own deci­sions, and mis­takes. And learn from them. That way, you are train­ing your brain, not your neighbour’s.”

Well, let me add now: Don’t Out­source Your Brain to Your GPS sys­tem, either…

Read arti­cle: here (via Drudge)

- “A 32-year-old Cal­i­forn­ian whose rental car got smashed by a Metro-North train last night was issued a minor sum­mons for caus­ing the fiery crash that strand­ed rail­road com­muters for hours.”GPS

- “Bo Bai, a com­put­er tech­ni­cian from Sun­ny­vale who said he was mere­ly trust­ing his car’s glob­al posi­tion­ing sys­tem when he steered onto the tracks, was cit­ed for obstruct­ing a rail­road cross­ing, offi­cials said this afternoon.”

For­tu­nate­ly, the dri­ver was safe, and there were no injuries. The arti­cle deserves read­ing…here.

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Neuroscience Interview Series: on learning and “brain gyms”

January 23, 2007 by Alvaro Fernandez

Giv­en that we are get­ting new read­ers let’s re-intro­duce our Neu­ro­science Inter­view Series. If you click on the cat­e­go­ry (in the right bar) that says Neu­ro­science Inter­view Series, you will find the updat­ed list of inter­views we have con­duct­ed (and also some that we have found else­where, such as the one with Posit Sci­ence’s Dr. Michael Merzenich and Dr. John Ratey).

The inter­views we have con­duct­ed and pub­lished so far, with most recent first:

  • Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg on Brain Fit­ness Pro­grams and Cog­ni­tive Train­ing. Dr. Gold­berg is a neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist and clin­i­cal pro­fes­sor of neu­rol­o­gy at New York Uni­ver­si­ty School of Med­i­cine. He was a stu­dent and close asso­ciate of the great neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist Alexan­der Luria, and has writ­ten The Exec­u­tive Brain and The Wis­dom Paradox.
  • Go Hira­no on Brain Train­ing and “Brain-ism” in Japan. Go is a ser­i­al Japan­ese entre­pre­neur who has launched NeuWell (Neu­ro­science for Well­ness) there. He also talks about Nin­ten­do Brain Age.
  • On Enhanc­ing Trad­er Per­for­mance and The Psy­chol­o­gy of Trad­ing: Inter­view with Brett N. Steen­barg­er. Dr. Steen­barg­er is an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try and Behav­ioral Sci­ences at SUNY Upstate Med­ical Uni­ver­si­ty, and author of The Psy­chol­o­gy of Trad­ing and the new Enhanc­ing Trad­er Performance.
  • On Cog­ni­tive Sim­u­la­tions for Bas­ket­ball Game-Intel­li­gence: Inter­view with Prof. Daniel Gopher. Dr. Gopher is Pro­fes­sor of Cog­ni­tive Psy­chol­o­gy and Human Fac­tors Engi­neer­ing at Tech­nion, Israel’s Insti­tute of Sci­ence, and sci­en­tif­ic advi­sor for Intel­li­Gym.
  • An ape can do this. Can we not? with Dr. James Zull, Pro­fes­sor of Biol­o­gy and Bio­chem­istry at Case West­ern Uni­ver­si­ty, and author of The Art of Chang­ing the Brain
  • Cog­ni­tive Train­ing and ADD/ADHD: Inter­view with Prof. David Rabin­er, Senior Research Sci­en­tist and the Direc­tor of Psy­chol­o­gy and Neu­ro­science Under­grad­u­ate Stud­ies at Duke University.
  • On Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing and RoboMemo: Inter­view with Dr. Torkel Kling­berg, pro­fes­sor at Karolin­s­ka Insti­tute, and direc­tor of the Devel­op­men­tal Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science Lab, part of the Stock­holm Brain Insti­tute. He is also the sci­en­tif­ic advi­sor for Cogmed Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing pro­gram (RoboMemo).

And we have a few more inter­views in the works-please keep tuned.

Enjoy!

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