Category: 16. Mind/Life-Hacking

Intuition May Reveal Where Expertise Resides in the Brain: Scientific American

“Our ability to provide rapid, accurate answers engages a small area in the brain’s basal ganglia, a hub for learning and automatic behaviors…Sometimes a solution just appears out of nowhere. You bring your multipage spreadsheet to the finance department, and within seconds the accountant tells you something isn’t quite right without being able to say…

The Neurological Basis of Intuition – Neurophilosophy

“Most of us have experienced the vague feeling of knowing something without having any memory of learning it. This phenomenon is commonly known as a “gut feeling” or “intuition”; more accurately though, it is described as implicit or unconscious recognition memory, to reflect the fact that it arises from information that was not attended to,…

Two Types Of Peak Emotional Responses To Music: The Psychophysiology Of Chills And Tears: Mori & Iwanaga

Abstract “People sometimes experience a strong emotional response to artworks. Previous studies have demonstrated that the peak emotional experience of chills (goose bumps or shivers) when listening to music involves psychophysiological arousal and a rewarding effect. However, many aspects of peak emotion are still not understood. The current research takes a new perspective of peak…

There’s No Such Thing As Different “Learning Styles” | Olivia Goldhill | SBS Life

Once upon a time, we were advised to process information by writing details down or sticking rainbow post-it-notes everywhere we could. But, scientists say, there’s no point: ‘learning styles’ are nothing short of a neuromyth….” To read the full article, click There’s no such thing as different “learning styles” | SBS Life

Measuring The Emotional Power Of Music: Eva Brown, Frontiers Science Writer

“In exploring the psychological bases of human musicality, research expands simplistic categories of emotions, producing advanced tools which can sort feelings evoked by music and assess the emotion…We can all relate to music, which individually sparks some form of emotion within us, but what kind of emotion is it? Research shows that music induces numerous…