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Cultural Neuroscience
Shihui Han and Georg Northoff have just published Culture-Sensitive Neural Substrates of Human Cognition: A Transcultural Neuroimaging Approach. This article will prove foundational for “cultural...
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Balance between cultures: equilibrium training
Way back in January, I posted ‘Equilibrium, modularity, and training the brain-body.‘ At the American Anthropology Association annual meeting, I presented my current version of this research,...
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Thinking to change your brain: Sharon Begley in the WSJ
The Wall Street Journal carried an excerpt from Susan Begley's excellent book, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain. Unfortunately, the rhetorical interest gained by treating the mind and brain as...
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Who you callin’ a ‘neuroconstructivist’?!
Intellectual labels are always a tricky business, necessary for talking about ideas and suggesting that a theorist is in a particular ideological neighborhood. Yet, they can drag along so much baggage...
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Talent: A difference that makes a difference
Studying sports training and skill acquisition, I often run headlong into the concept of ‘talent.’ When I suggest that athletic achievement demonstrates the extraordinary malleability of the human...
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The New Performance Enhancing Drugs
By Andrew Hessert, Andrew Medvecz, Jimmy Miller, Jacquelyn Richard Barry Bonds elevated his game to the next level with “the clear” and “the cream”, shattering legendary records in the process. Are...
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SlowTV: Mind and Its Potential
The Mind and Its Potential Conference was hosted in Sydney, Australia back in November. Mind & Its Potential is your opportunity to hear the world’s top scientists, psychologists and philosophers...
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Great Expectations: Conference on Brain Plasticity
Back in February, the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University in Copenhagen hosted a fantastic looking conference, “Great Expectations: The Plasticity of the Brain and Neurosciences at the...
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Your Brain Unleashed – Outdoors and Out of Reach
Ah, rafting the San Juan River in southern Utah, camping and hiking for a week – for most people, a vacation. But for a select group of brain researchers, and some accompanying journalists, it was...
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Your Brain on Nature: Outdoors and Out of Reach 2
Daniel and I exchanged emails about the recent piece in The New York Times, ‘Outdoors and Out of Reach, Studying the Brain,’ by Matt Richtel. We both responded strongly to the article; although we...
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