Tag Archives: Neuroscience

Want To Live Longer? Move

Posted on June 1, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Steven Johnson, successful, middle-aged author and thinker, is moving from New York to San Francisco.  His main reason for moving is to slow down time: Another old friend — my oldest, in fact — wrote an email to me after … Continue reading →

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Trouble Focusing? Clean Your Workspace

Posted on April 17, 2011 by AJ Kessler

This is an interesting study from the University of Princeton’s Neuroscience Institute: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21228167 Multiple stimuli present in the visual field at the same time compete for neural representation by mutually suppressing their evoked activity throughout visual cortex, providing a neural correlate … Continue reading →

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