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ere to Read: Penn Research Helps Show that ‘Endowment Effect’ is Not Present in Hunter-Gather Societies on the Penn News Website on October 21, 2013.
Coren Apicella and Eduardo Azevedo
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Data-Mining Our Dreams
A New Map of How We Think: Top Brain/Bottom Brain
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A New Map of How We Think: Top Brain/Bottom Brain Forget dated ideas about the left and right hemispheres. New research provides a more nuanced view of the brain By Stephen M. Kosslyn and G. Wayne Miller on the Wall Street Journal website on October 18, 2013.
Author and neuroscientist Stephen Kosslyn talks to WSJ editor Gary Rosen about the practical implications of new brain research. Are you a Mover, Stimulator, Perceiver or Adaptor? Photo: Getty Images
Most Depressing Brain Finding Ever
Student-faculty research shows Oreos are just as addictive as drugs in lab rats
Click Here to Read: Student-faculty research shows Oreos are just as addictive as drugs in lab rats on the Connecticut College website on October 15, 2013.
Joseph Schroeder, associate professor of psychology and director of the behavioral neuroscience program, and Lauren Cameron ’14 found that eating Oreos activated more neurons in the brain’s “pleasure center” than exposure to drugs of abuse.
Brain anatomy and language in young children
Evolution and Bad Boyfriends
Dark alien planet discovered by NASA Scientists are unsure what causes the planet to be so dark, but they believe it could be ‘a chemical we haven’t even thought of yet
Latinos struggle to find help for mental health issues
Click Here to Read: Latinos struggle to find help for mental health issues By Cindy Y. Rodriguez onthe CNN website on October 9, 2013.
Argentine-born biochemist Cesar Milstein shared the 1984 Nobel Prize for Medicine with Georges Koehler of Germany and Niels Jerne of Denmark. The scientists developed a way to produce monoclonal antibodies, which are used to treat some forms of cancer and several autoimmune diseases.
