the consumption renews the appetite

nickyskye — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:33:14 -0800

Seeking - How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting.

neurobiology of trust

nickyskye — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:25:38 -0800

As the market plummets, it might be interesting to look at the neurological background in the breakdown of trust. The author, Jonah Lehrer, is a young brainiac writer for Seed and the excellent Frontal Cortex. l Scientists immediately discovered a strong neural signal that drove many of the investment decisions. The signal was fictive learning. l One way to think of the financial markets right now is that instead of being populated by rational agents, they're full of people with borderline personality disorder. The Neurobiology of Trust Recent articles in Seed by Jonah Lehrer. Previously (wonderful post about Jonah Lehrer's first book, Proust Was a Neuroscientist). Previous references to Frontal Cortex: 1, 2, 3.

Dopamine

homunculus — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:30:25 -0800

A New State of Mind. "New research is linking dopamine to complex social phenomena and changing neuroscience in the process."

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