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Archive of posts tagged cognition

How Exercise Could Lead to a Better Brain

A New York Times article on the work of a  team of researchers led by Justin S. Rhodes, a psychology professor at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois talks about how exercise could lead to a better brain.

Exhibition: The Art of Networks

3rd Workshop on Complex Networks, Complenet 2012 and Foosaner Art Museum (Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida) March 9 – April 8, 2012 The Art of Networks brings together twelve visualizations representing networks in topics as diverse as migration flows, speech cognition, citations, the spreading of social messages, and housing issues in the U.S. [...]

CFP: Conference: Creativity & Cognition 2011

Last call for participation in the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition  (C&C 2011), we cordially invite you to join us at the beautiful High Museum of Art in Atlanta, USA, from November 3-6, 2011. Conference: Creativity & Cognition 2011 Website: http://dilab.gatech.edu/ccc/index.html Conference dates: November 3-6, 2011 Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Art by Amy Ione now online

I just put up a new web page for my art.  Please visit art-by-amyione.com

Time for a Technology Diet?

All those tweets, apps, updates may drain brain James Temple Published Sunday, April 17, 2011 | San Francisco Chronicle A team at UCSF published a study last week that found further evidence that multitasking impedes short-term memory, especially among older adults. Researchers there previously found that distractions of the sort that smart phones and social [...]

Article: Call It a Reversible Coma, Not Sleep

Interesting interview here on anesthesia with Dr. Emery Neal Brown, a professor of computational neuroscience at M.I.T. and a practicing physician. He heads a laboratory seeking to unravel one of medicine’s big questions: how anesthesia works.