• Learning, Arts, and the Brain

  "Learning, Arts, and the Brain, a study three years in the making, is the result of research by cognitive neuroscientists from seven leading universities across the United States. In the Dana Consortium study, released in March 2008, researchers grappled with a fundamental question: Are smart people drawn to the arts or does arts training make people smarter?" w/ PDF download (The Dana Consortium Report)

  tags: art, brains, grue

• Hedonic Man

  "The new economics and the pursuit of happiness."

  tags: decision-making, economics, grue

• Get Out of Your Own Way

  "Fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers now can detect our intentions and predict our choices before we are aware of them ourselves. The brain, they have found, appears to make up its mind 10 seconds before we become conscious of a decision -- an eternity at the speed of thought."

  tags: decision-making, mind, brains, grue

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