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Having created a mobile app to conduct an experiment, scientists recently found that our minds wander about 47% of the time (the notable exception being love-making, when our ability to concentrate is very strong). While that may make us sound lazy and unproductive, neurologists say that daydreaming actually increases our ability to solve problems by thinking more creatively. More on DAYDREAMING: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=daydreaming 
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Sara Mednick, a psychologist at UC San Diego, talks about how napping improves mind and memory...
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Myths have developed around and researchers have studied how the human brain juggles creativity and organization. Popular theory tells us that the left brain is structured and logical, while the right brain is artistic and imaginative, and that all human beings use predominantly one side of the other. More on CREATIVITY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=creativity
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Acclaimed author and illustrator Matthew Johnstone reveals how simple daily practices can help us be more present, more positive, have better health and greater clarity.
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Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose ourselves? In a tour through the science of evolution by group selection, he proposes a provocative answer.
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Cognitive scientist Daniel Casasanto, of The New School for Social Research, has shown that quirks of our bodies affect our thinking in predictable ways, across many different areas of life, from language to mental imagery to emotion.
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Research shows that people with rich fantasy lives may be especially susceptible to such influences. A new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests a mundane but surprising reason why some people might be vulnerable to dissociation: sleep problems.
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These conceptual tools prove to be useful in making new sense of the notion of the pursuit of happiness. Quite satisfyingly, it emerges that the framers of the Declaration of Independence presaged the findings of the scientific inquiry into happiness: the dynamics of the self and of happiness is such that the pursuit itself -- the journey rather than the destination--is what really matters (hence the title of the book).
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When we learn that we have lots of control over our internal processes, stress can be markedly reduced. We can choose another thought in any given moment or choose not to hold on to and ruminate over our negative thoughts. The best way I have found to do this is through a regular mindfulness practice
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You can trick your mind into remembering useful but dull facts by weaving the information into vivid mental shorthand...
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Mind over matter - a fake arm increases the allergic response...
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Science is beginning to show that meditation can have a major impact on the way our brain and bodies function, write Jonathan Krygier and Andrew Kemp.
Tyler's curator insight,
January 10, 2013 11:04 AM
Meditation has always been an intriguing form of stress relief to me. Of the many different techniques, this one seems to be the most difficult for people to do. To be able to seperate our mind from the world around us is a daunting task, which is why I am glad that I found this article. This helped tremendously with my education on the subject, and I walked away far more intrigued than I was beforehand. Although I will probably stick to easier ways of reducing stress, I am glad that I at least was able to learn a bit more about meditation and the benefits that it brings. 
Brady Wyman's curator insight,
March 25, 2013 12:03 PM
Shows benefits of meditation on mental health.
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If the combination of neuroscience, psychology and education (“Mind, Brain, and Education science) is the way we should approach teaching from now on, what exactly are the lessons we can apply to the classroom? Via Sarantis Chelmis, Sakis Koukouvis, Stefanos
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December 24, 2014 7:47 AM
#DémarchePortfolio #Apprenance : les grandes transformations des apprentissages sont déjà là.... |
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Virginia Woolf, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe—teetering on the thin line between madness and genius, they contributed to the world some of the greatest works of literature at the cost of their own mental vitality. Even they suspected a link between the moments of crystal clear lucidity amongst their disordered emotions. Is science finally gaining ground on this dark connection?
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Pribram’s holographic theory is a belief that each piece of an object contains the pattern for the entire object. Pribram showed that portions of the brain work in the same fashion. He found, for instance, the vision in rats seems to be processed holographically. With more than 90 percent of their optic nerves severed, rats can still see. More on HOLOGRAM: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=hologram
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Known as neuroplasticity, findings show you have an innate ability to restructure the gray matter of your brain, literally speaking, with your mind and conscious action. When you change what you think, say or do in response to an event or situation, you change inner emotional states. NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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Whether a song prompts you to remember your first dance, or an annoying tune won’t stop buzzing around in your head, there is no doubt that music has unique effects on memory. APS Fellow Carol Krumhansl, a professor at Cornell University, studies this distinct connection. She took a few moments to speak with the Observer about her work as well as the upcoming theme program “Music, Mind, and Brain” at the 24th APS Annual Convention in Chicago, IL.
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October 13, 2013 9:24 PM
Although this article is very similar to the others, you can clearly tell that it is credible. It is tagged from the APS Annual Convention for Cognitive and Developmental Psychology.
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"I do not know whether your pleasure is the same as my pleasure." They are not about reviewing something or giving it a score, or even just outline my opinion or thoughts. They go further than that and try to explain how they fit inside my mind because until the day when we can all share each others minds - whenever it will be – I will never use the term review. I will use the term “Transmission” and it will be just that: a Transmission of how something fits into my mind and how it affects my view of reality.
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You may have noticed that when you think positively, you tend to feel more relaxed and energetic. When you are upset, you are more likely to feel tired and lazy. These sensations are not coincidental. The way we think—our attitudes and outlook on life—strongly affects our physical state.
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Download eight free self-help mind map book summaries that will help you thrive at work, in business and in life.
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(Medical Xpress) -- Want to know why sports fans get so worked up when they think the referee has wrongly called their team's pass forward, their player offside, or their serve as a fault?
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Most of us learn "the cogito" at some point during our formal education. Yet far fewer of us study an equally deep and elegant idea from social psychology: Other people's thinking likewise powerfully shapes the I's that we are. Indeed, in many situations, other people's thinking has a bigger impact on our own thoughts, feelings, and actions than do the thoughts we conjure while philosophizing alone. In other words, much of the time, "You think, therefore I am." For better and for worse.
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Music, speech, and hearing are closely related to each other. Some bodily perceptions (e.g., pain) are closely related to action. But one unexpected piece really caught my attention: executive function and language.
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In fact, some research suggests that how a person views his illness may play a bigger role in determining his health outcomes than the actual severity of his disease.
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If there's one lesson I've learned while training thousands of wellness coaches, it's this: An organized mind enables full engagement in a health-giving life.
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