Posts Tagged ‘neural’
Study: The placebo effect works even when people know they are taking a placebo
Placebos Prove Powerful, Even When People Know They’re Taking One, New Study Suggests (MSU release): How much of a treatment is mind over matter? It is well documented that people often feel better after taking a treatment without active ingredients simply because they believe it’s real — known as the placebo effect. A team of…
Read MoreNeuroengineering meets neuroethics to address treatment-resistant depression
___________________ Is This the Future of Mental Health? (USC Viterbi School of Engineering): “Brain–machine interfaces (BMIs) provide a direct pathway to the brain to translate brain signals into actions … Below, Shanechi (Note: Maryam Shanechi, PhD, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering) answers some questions about her work and what the future might hold…
Read MoreA conversation with Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg on Creativity, Neuroscience, and Technological Innovation
Dear Elkhonon, a pleasure to have you with us. Let’s get out the gate by discussing how are new ideas born — for example, how exactly did you first think about writing your new book, Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation? Originally, I set out to write a book about how the…
Read MoreBelén Guerra-Carrillo to speak about Cognition, Learning and How to Conduct a 200,000-participant Study at the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit
Proud to confirm a new excellent Speaker @ 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 5–7th). Belén Guerra-Carrillo is an NSF fellow and a doctoral student at UC Berkeley in Prof. Silvia Bunge’s Building Blocks of Cognition Lab. She is particularly interested in the neural and cognitive mechanisms that give rise to changes that occur as a result of…
Read MoreThe dual challenge ahead of Facebook’s Typing-by-Brain project: 1) develop the neurotechnology, 2) develop the science
Director of Typing-by-Brain Project Discusses How Facebook Will Get Inside Your Head (IEEE Spectrum): “When Facebook’s Mark Chevillet describes the company’s new “typing by brain” initiative, he has a way of keeping it from sounding totally crazy
Read MoreTo boost creativity, combine systematic daily effort with diverse emotional states
Mapping Creativity in the Brain (The Atlantic): “The writer Edith Wharton, a self-professed “slow worker,” dismissed the idea of easy creative triumph. “Many people assume that the artist receives, at the outset of his career, the mysterious sealed orders known as ‘Inspiration,’ and has only to let that sovereign impulse carry him where it will,”…
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