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How the city hurts your brain - Boston.com

Citation added: January 5th, 2009, 2:51 pm
One of the main forces at work is a stark lack of nature, which is surprisingly beneficial for the brain. Studies have demonstrated, for instance, that hospital patients recover more quickly when they can see trees from their windows, and that women living in public housing are better able to focus when their apartment overlooks a grassy courtyard. Even these fleeting glimpses of nature improve brain performance, it seems, because they provide a mental break from the urban roil.
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Why We Take Risks — It's the Dopamine - TIME

Citation added: January 2nd, 2009, 3:09 pm
A new study by researchers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City suggests a biological explanation for why certain people tend to live life on the edge — it involves the neurotransmitter dopamine, the brain's feel-good chemical.
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How to Run a Con | Psychology Today Blogs

Citation added: November 18th, 2008, 6:49 pm
The key to a con is not that you trust the conman, but that he shows he trusts you. Conmen ply their trade by appearing fragile or needing help, by seeming vulnerable. Because of THOMAS, the human brain makes us feel good when we help others--this is the basis for attachment to family and friends and cooperation with strangers. "I need your help" is a potent stimulus for action.
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Left-handed people are more inhibited - New Scientist

Citation added: November 7th, 2008, 4:57 pm
Lefties face a daily battle with a world designed for right-handers. Now it seems that left-handed people face a similar struggle in the mental sphere: behavioural research suggests they are prone to inhibition and anxiety.
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handedness | brain | neuroscience | human | behaviour

An Introduction to Sine-Wave Speech - MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Citation added: November 4th, 2008, 2:17 pm
Having heard several examples of sine-wave speech, your perceptual system has tuned into this form of distortion, so as to be able to perceive new sine-wave speech sentences more clearly.
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