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100 Things You Should Know About People: #48 — What You See Is Not What Your...

Can you read this?: Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, the oredr of lteetrs in a wrod is nto vrey iprmoetnt. Waht mttaers is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The...

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100 Things You Should Know About People: #49 — The Brain Looks For Simple...

What do you see when you look at the x’s below? xx    xx    xx    xx Chances are you will say you see four sets of 2 x’s each. You won’t see them as 8 separate x’s. You interpret the white space, or...

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100 Things You Should Know About People: #55 – During Sleep You Consolidate...

You Sleep To Learn And Remember Why do people sleep? — Well, not just people, but all kinds of animals sleep. When you think about it, it’s actually quite a strange idea that for 1/4 to 1/3 of each day...

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100 Things You Should Know About People: #57 — There Are 4 Types Of Creativity

Have you heard someone say, “Oh, John – he’s so creative! I wish I was creative like that.” It makes it sound as if creativity is a natural skill or talent, like the ability to sing or paint. Other...

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100 Things You Should Know About People: #69 — Your Brain Craves Surprises

In Neuro Web Design: What makes them click? I talk about the role of the “old” brain in scanning the environment looking for anything that is dangerous. This also means that the unconscious, old brain...

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100 Things You Should Know About People: #74 — Listening To Music Releases...

  Have you ever been listening to a piece of music and experienced intense pleasure, even chills? Valorie Salimpoor and team (2010) conducted research that shows that listening to music can release the...

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100 Things You Should Know About People: #88 — Your Brain Has A Special...

Your Uncle Arden invites you over to watch the World Cup and tells you to bring some friends. When you get there you see that there are several people you know (relatives and friends of relatives), and...

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100 Things You Should Know About People: #92 — There Is A Brain Area...

Photo Credit: Katie Ricard You are walking down a busy street in a large city and suddenly you see the face of one of your close relatives. Even if you were not expecting to see this person, and even...

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100 Things You Should Know About People: #94 — Repetition Changes Your Brain

Have you ever wondered what a memory is exactly and how it gets formed? You have hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of memories in your brain. Songs you remember how to sing. Scenes from movies....

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How To Get People To Do Stuff: #3 — A Hard-To-Read Font Will Activate Logical...

I am taking a chance here, because I know that the subject of fonts is always controversial, and if I say that you should use fonts that are hard to read I’ll be blasted by many of my readers! But I...

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The Brain Science Of Why Stepping Away Increases Creativity

We’ve all had the experience: You’re trying to solve a problem or come up with a new idea. You’ve been sitting at your desk, or discussing it in meetings, but you haven’t come up with a solution or...

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Are You Addicted To Texting?

One of my early blog posts was about dopamine, and since then our smartphones have become even more capable of triggering a “dopamine loop.” So I thought I would re-visit the topic. Especially because...

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Your Brain On Stories

One day, many years ago, when I was early in my career, I found myself in front of a classroom full of people who didn’t want to be there. Their boss had told them they had to attend the class…Read more ›

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The Neuro-Aesthetics of Hillary’s Campaign Logo

hillaryclinton.com Yesterday Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy for President of the US, and before 24 hours went by I had a media request to talk about why people were reacting so strongly (in a...

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The Best Way To Process Big Data Is Unconsciously

David Eagleman wearing the sensory vest Jason is 20 years old and he’s deaf. He puts on a special vest that’s wired so that when it receives data, it sends pulses to his back. The vest is connected to...

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HumanTech — Check out the new podcast

Just a quick announcement to let you know we’ve started a new weekly podcast called HumanTech. I’m hosting this podcast with my (amazing) son, Guthrie. Here’s the description at iTunes: HumanTech — A...

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The Next 100 Things You Need To Know About People: #114 — Great Stories...

George Lucas and the Hero’s Journey — In 1975 George Lucas had written two drafts of Star Wars, but the story had not yet “come together”. He then re-read a 1949 book by Joseph Campbell, The Hero with...

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The Next 100 Things You Need To Know About People: #119 — Games Can Enhance...

When my son was about six years old, we were shopping in Target. He saw a group of ten-to thirteen-year-olds playing video games on the demo machines, and was fascinated (video games were not part of...

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The Brain’s Bonding Chemical: Oxytocin

What makes you feel connected to another person, a team, or even a pet? It’s oxytocin. In this HumanTech podcast episode we talk about the amazing brain chemical that makes you feel loving towards...

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Hack Your Brain, Part 1

Your brain is more flexible than you may think. That can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on who is trying to hack it! This is Part 1 of two episodes of the HumanTech podcast where we explore...

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