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Tough Choices: How Making Decisions Tires Your Brain: Scientific American

Citation added: July 25th, 2008, 3:27 pm
Unrelated activities that tax the executive function have important lingering effects, and may disrupt your ability to make such an important decision.
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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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The New Atlantis » The Myth of Multitasking

Citation added: June 23rd, 2008, 2:05 pm
Given what neuroscience and anecdotal evidence have shown us, this state of constant intentional self-distraction could well be of profound detriment to individual and cultural well-being.
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Cognitive disenhancement | From he that hath not | Economist.com

Citation added: May 22nd, 2008, 4:14 pm
Their work argues that simply putting someone into a weak social position impairs his cognitive function. Conversely, “empowering” him, in the dread jargon of sociology, sharpens up his mind.
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