How cognitive illusions blind us to reason

By SharpBrains | November 2, 2011

Fun arti­cle by Daniel Kah­ne­man based on his new book,Think­ing, Fast and Slow. How cog­ni­tive illu­sions blind us to rea­son (The Guardian): Why do Wall Street traders have such faith in their pow­ers of pre­dic­tion, when their suc­cess is large­ly down to chance? Daniel Kah­ne­man explains.  — “Look­ing back, the most strik­ing part of the…

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Change Your Environment, Change Yourself

By Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. | March 20, 2009 |

(Edi­tor’s note: one of the most com­mon ene­mies of get­ting qual­i­ty cog­ni­tive exer­cise is being on “men­tal autopi­lot”. I recent­ly came across an excel­lent new book, titled The Dai­ly Trad­ing Coach: 101 Lessons for Becom­ing Your Own Trad­ing Psy­chol­o­gist, by trad­ing per­for­mance expert Dr. Brett Steen­barg­er, which explic­it­ly calls for address­ing the “men­tal autopi­lot” problem…

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Brain Research Interview Series

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 23, 2008 |

We are work­ing on improv­ing sev­er­al sec­tions of our web­site, espe­cial­ly our Resources sec­tion. It will look much bet­ter in a few days. Our first step has been to re-orga­nize our Neu­ro­science Inter­view Series, and below you have how it looks today. Dur­ing the last 18 months I have had the for­tune to inter­view over 15…

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Brain Fitness Software Trends

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 3, 2008

Some very inter­est­ing brain fit­ness soft­ware mar­ket news: 1) Sci­en­tif­ic Learn­ing To Buy Out Solil­o­quy — “Sci­en­tif­ic Learn­ing Corp. has announced that it will acquire Solil­o­quy Learn­ing from JTT Hold­ings. Both Sci­en­tif­ic Learn­ing and Solil­o­quy pro­vide tech­nol­o­gy solu­tions for edu­ca­tion. The acqui­si­tion will cost SLC about $11 mil­lion and is expect­ed to be com­plet­ed this month.” -…

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