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Mind Hacks: The beauty algorithm and coding for the brain

Citation added: October 9th, 2008, 4:04 pm
I'm fascinated by the fact that software advances are increasingly taking advantage of the quirks of our mind and brain.
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Rubber Hand Trick Reveals Brain-Body Link | Wired Science from Wired.com

Citation added: August 29th, 2008, 5:45 pm
The rubber hand illusion is more than a vaguely creepy parlor trick. It's a window into relationship between our mental and physical self-conception.
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Scientists and Magicians Describe How Tricks Exploit Glitches in Perception - NYTimes.com

Citation added: August 13th, 2008, 6:02 pm
In a paper published last week in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, a team of brain scientists and prominent magicians described how magic tricks, both simple and spectacular, take advantage of glitches in how the brain constructs a model of the outside world from moment to moment, or what we think of as objective reality.
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Magic Tricks Reveal Inner Workings of the Brain | Wired Science from Wired.com

Citation added: July 24th, 2008, 6:04 pm
Now some psychologists are considering how they can use magic to advance our understanding of the brain -- and perhaps help inoculate us against advertising.
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Developing Intelligence : Impulsivity Due to Distortions in Time: Hyperbolic Discounting and Logarithmic Time Perception

Citation added: July 16th, 2008, 4:40 pm
New research from Wharton and the Carlson School shows that a methodologically-appealing measure of impulsivity - hyperbolic discounting rate - may actually reflect a systematic "skew" in the way people perceive time.
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