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Economic decisions come from the heart

While the rules of economics (goodbye Lehman Brothers) assume that we all will act rationally and in our own best interest, truth is we’re a fickle and flighty people. So recent neuroscience research would argue (and it has long been so, as I’m reading in David Copperfield—poor Aunt Betsey!—right now).   A bevy of brain [...]

Posted 19 September 2008 † nickyp § Brain science ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Not ‘political’ science

[crankypants alert] I remember getting so mad last year reading the op-ed “This is your brain on politics” in the New York Times. At my job, we work so hard to get people interested in brain science and to help them understand it, then a not-flake but well-respected researcher comes out with something flaky like [...]

Posted 14 September 2008 † nickyp § Brain science § Thinking ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

Seeking spirit by scanning brains

We did a cool out-of-the ordinary science story this week—”The ‘Search’ for God: Growing field of neurotheology explores the biology of religion.” More researchers are trying to find “spirituality” in brain scans the way we’ve been trying to find language and visual processing, and it seems like the tools we have (fMRI, EEG, etc.) may [...]

Posted 11 September 2008 † nickyp § Brain science § Thinking ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,