by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 7, 2017 | Brain Science, Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking
Dr. Steven Novella Talks About Why Our Brains Really Suck at QED 2011 in Manchester. At approximately 37:00 minutes in he explains how the reasoning powers in our prefrontal cortex can evaluate the interpretations from other areas of our brain and use “Critical...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 9, 2017 | Brain Science, Health, Science
8 Sleep Experts on What to Do When You Can’t Turn Off Your Thoughts at Night Some nights, it’s like you can’t get your brain to shut up long enough for you to fall asleep. You’re mentally reviewing the day you just completed while also...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 23, 2017 | Brain Science
A ‘Memory Hacker’ Explains How to Plant False Memories in People’s Minds We tend to think of memories as perfect little time capsules-important records of past events that matter to us and made us who we are, as unchangeable as a dragonfly stuck in...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 9, 2017 | Brain Science, Cognitive Bias
Bias can contaminate eyewitness testimony, which is the biggest contributor to wrongful convictions in the United...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 21, 2017 | Brain Science
Harvard Researchers Have Found the Source of Human Consciousness What is human consciousness and where does it come from? Throughout the ages, some of our greatest minds have probed this question, and struggled to find answers. Today, different disciplines offer...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 9, 2017 | Books, Brain Science
The first ten seconds of this video describes my memory skills almost exactly. I think I have heard of this techniques before in that it sounds like something I heard (and read) from Edward Debono and his books. I’ll give it a shot and also see what I might...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 2, 2016 | Books, Brain Science, Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking
I ABSOLUTLEY HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK. I’m a big fan of Michael Lewis’s books (Moneybag, The Big Short, The New New Thing) and if you haven’t seen me quoting and citing Daniel Kahneman’s and Amos Tversky’s work from Thinking Fast & Slow...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 27, 2016 | Brain Science
History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian No...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 19, 2016 | Brain Science, Cognition, Critical Thinking
Because I was multitasking this morning my attention was drawn to an article in my FaceBook feed from The Invisible Gorilla caught my attention on the dangers of “Multitasking”. (Arguably I think an addiction I have to multitasking might very well be my...
