I’m often very skeptical about this kind of video, as they are notorious for exaggerating claims and poor fact-checking. However, I thought this may be worth a link. It doesn’t give all its sources, which is a bit dubious.…
Author: ibaxendine
What happens to Facebook posts you delete without posting?
I just stumbled across this earlier today. It’s quite a scary insight into some of the data Facebook collects — while also sounding like a very fascinating area of research! http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/12/facebook_self_censorship_what_happens_to_the_posts_you_don_t_publish.html
“Fifth type of tedium identified – apathetic boredom”
This doesn’t feel like anything new, but it might be helpful terminology for exploring motivations of problem internet use… http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/269039.php
Car that doesn’t work when the user is not paying attention
http://www.wired.com/design/2013/11/this-car-slows-down-when-youre-not-paying-attention/ This seems pretty cool in concept, but I’d imagine it’s not very practical in reality. Nonetheless, perhaps this could be of interest for the lab, particularly if similar tasks could be run on the simulator?
Proposed metabolite-moderating role of sleep article I mentioned today
Here’s the article I’d brought up in today’s meeting, as well as a review of it in less-physiological terms. It proposes a role of sleep as clearing out metabolites and other cellular waste in a system similar to the lymphatic…
Elizer Yudkowsky’s Cognitive Science posts
This isn’t directly relevant to the topic of the group, but since I was asked last week to post it, here’s the majority of the works of Eliezer Yudkowsky that I’ve been reading lately. http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences It’s been taking me a good…
“Specific brain regions can be trained by means of video games”
I just found this article on my newsreader for today, and thought it might be of interest to the group. The claim is that playing “Super Mario 64” apparently induces structural brain plasticity, which seems a pretty interesting finding. More…