i Editor's Letter: We are here to serve
Oh dear. It was quite rash picking Jeannie Hay's letter for Your View yesterday, but I thought we should test the waters. Ms Hay complained about crosswords; that i 's cryptic was too hard. I'm not an aficionado, but I thought that was the point?
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Boosting Brain Power! How to Stay Sharp! -- In Depth Doctor's Interview
How does our memory work? Dr. Schulz: The first step in remembering something that I am hearing. For example, what you are saying is that I have to focus on you and on what you are saying and that takes a fair bit of brain power that comes from th ...
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Why Your Brain Isn't A Computer
"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." - Emerson M. Pugh
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Study Documents Popular Press’s Distortions of Neuroscience
“Superwoman has been rumbled,” declared a Daily Telegraph article in 2001 that chronicled how the human brain’s inability to “multitask” undercuts the prospects for a woman to juggle career and family with any measure of success. The brain as media icon has emerged repeatedly in recent years as new imaging techniques have proliferated—and, as a [...]
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Neuroscience Coverage: Media Distorts, Bloggers Rule
Brain as Icon Superwoman has been rumbled, declared a Daily Telegraph article in 2001 that chronicled how the human brain s inability to multitask undercuts the prospects for a woman to juggle career and family with any measure of success. The brain as media icon has emerged repeatedly in recent years as new imaging techniques have proliferated and, as a symbol, it seems to confuse as much as ...
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