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Can Playing the Computer Game “Tetris” Reduce the Build-Up of Flashbacks for Trauma? A Proposal from Cognitive Science
Screenshot of a tetromino game. People who play video puzzle games like this for a long time may see moving images like this at the edges of their visual fields, when they close their eyes, or when they are drifting off to sleep.
Tetris effect
To Predict Dating Success, The Secret's In The Pronouns : Shots - Health Blog
iStockphoto.com On a recent Friday night, 30 men and 30 women gathered at a hotel restaurant in Washington, D.C. Their goal was love, or maybe sex, or maybe some combination of the two. They were there for speed dating. The women sat at separate numbered tables while the men moved down the line, and for two solid hours they did a rotation, making small talk with people they did not know, one after another, in three-minute increments.
Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses - NYTimes.com
In his article about Project Glass for The New York Times, Nick Bilton, addresses the idea that the glasses could actually be a greater interference in people’s lives: People I have spoken with who have have seen Project Glass said there is a misconception that the glasses will interfere with people’s daily life too much, constantly streaming information to them and distracting from the real world. But these people said the glasses actually free people up from technology.
NEW YORK - If you wear a white coat that you believe belongs to a doctor, your ability to pay attention increases sharply. But if you wear the same white coat believing it belongs to a painter, you will show no such improvement. So scientists report after studying a phenomenon they call enclothed cognition: the effects of clothing on cognitive processes.
World | Sometimes a white coat isn't just a white coat
Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool. A few seconds later, you reach into the box and pull out a full-size footstool: The sand has assembled itself into a large-scale replica of the model. That may sound like a scene from a Harry Potter novel, but it’s the vision animating a research project at the Distributed Robotics Laboratory (DRL) at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Self-sculpting sand - MIT News Office
Back in August, I reported on an ACMD study buried in the back of a UK government report. The study gave strong evidence that the current drug classification scheme in the UK was fundamentally flawed and was not based on the actual danger of a given drug. The study has now been published in this week's issue of The Lancet .
Study Finds Alcohol and Tobacco More Harmful than Marijuana, LSD, or Ecstasy (Revisited) : The Scientific Activist
When Truisms Are True - NYTimes.com
Is there any psychological truth to such metaphors for better thinking? Our research suggests that the answer is yes. When people literally — that is, physically — embody these metaphors, they generate more creative ideas for solving problems.
From law-violating subatomic particles to entirely new, earth-like worlds, 2011 was an incredible year for scientific discovery. In the past 12 months, scientific breakthroughs in fields ranging from archaeology to structural biochemistry have allowed humanity to rewrite history, and enabled us to open to brand new chapters in our development as a species. The world's lowest density material
Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs of 2011
While the comparison between the computer and the human brain is one that has been made for over half a century, the way each one processes information could not be more different.
IBM's "neurosynaptic" chips are the closest thing to a synthetic brain yet
What if, instead of tallying up head-shots in Team Fortress 2 , you could channel your gaming skills towards helping scientists find treatments to diseases like HIV/AIDS? Well, it turns out you can. In fact, it's already been done.
Online gamers have managed to solve a decade-old scientific puzzle. In three weeks.
Where did all the nothing go? | Sci-ence! A Skeptical Comic and Blog.
Nothing used to be intuitive. I mean the concept of ‘nothing’.When we think of life on Earth, most of us think of multicellular organisms, like large mammals or massive trees.
Researchers evolve a multicellular yeast in the lab in 2 months
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