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POPSThinking cap unlocks hidden genius Australian scientist Allan Snyder says that "switching off" parts of the brain can unlock the hidden genius in all of us. This is achieved by stimulating parts of the brain with tiny magnetic pulses, induced by a hairnet-like cap.
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POPSOptical Illusion Videos A collection of videos about optical illusions with in addition to many examples of static and dynamic illusions also something about the use in advertising, a lecture about scientific aspects, the use in combination with music and finally an animated journey in a world of paradox and illusion.
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POPSMen And Women Respond Differently To Stress The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine is reporting research that shows that different parts of the brain are activated in males and females when confronted with a stressful situation. The researchers examined the activity of participant's brains using fMRI while exposed to stress.
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POPSCognitive Fun -- Improve Fluid Intelligence Some examples of a computer based brain-training method designed to improve working memory, which as has been reported recently by a Swiss-American team, also increases scores in "fluid intelligence", or general problem-solving ability.
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POPSEmotiv's new brain-computer interface Emotiv Systems recently unveiled a brain/computer interface system with a helmet and software applications. The Project Epoc system can move objects based on a gamer's thoughts, reflect facial expressions, and respond to the excitement or calm the gamer mentally exerts.
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POPSSecret Sex Lives of Animals A few recent items and images clipped from Secret Sex Lives of Animals. a blog with a weekly column on the bizarre, wonderful, colourful and sometimes shocking world of animal mating habits.
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POPSNew insight in the human brain Nine examples of recent insight in the human brain clipped from a special edition of the series Better All The Time of the weblog The Speculist.
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POPSThe Blue Brain project A project in which using the huge computational capacity IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer a detailed model of the human brain is created.
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POPSBrains-on-a-Chip Brains-on-a-Chip no longer science fiction? Apparently not: DARPA is holding next month a workshop on this subject.
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POPSNeurobiology of Love The WSJ's Sam Schechner reports on a study looking at the brains of people who claim to have stayed madly in love for over a decade.
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POPSWhy do we need to sleep? According to recent research from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine sleep is needed to unburden ourselves of an excessive strengthening of neural connections. The study shows that sleep plays a critical role in the brain’s ability to change in response to its environment. This explains why after many hours of being awake, one feels unable to absorb any more and several hours of sleep will refresh this ability.
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POPSThe Neuromarketers Advertising agencies are starting to use functional MRI machines to monitor, in real time, the brain's response to commercials.
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