Mental Rap Sheet Odd Bits About the Brain Scientists prove time flies when you're busy. Or, at least, it flies when your attention is engaged. Dr. Anthony Chaston and his research colleague, Dr. Alan Kingstone, have proven it in the lab... ---------------------- Here's a health tip for your mind: brain exercises. One way to keep your brain nimble is to practice a technique called neurobics, which uses your senses to help create new connections in areas of the brain that process sensory input... ---------------------- Brain anti-anxiety switch found. Scientists have found a switch in the brain that appears to control anxiety and wakefulness. This switch could be a target for drugs to treat sleep and anxiety disorders, as well as attention deficit hyperactivity... Rejection massively reduces IQ. Rejection can dramatically reduce a person's IQ and their ability to reason analytically, while increasing their aggression, according to new research... ---------------------- Cognitive bias is a distortion in the way we perceive reality. Some of these have been verified empirically in the field of psychology, others are considered general categories of bias. Common ones are anchoring, anthropic bias, attributional bias, Barnum effect, base rate neglect... -- en.wikipedia.org Return to Mind Bluff