Donald Hebb’s influential concept “neurons that fire together, wire together” explains the biological basis of learning and memory.
Tag Archives: neuroscience
Understanding the Brain in Gathering, Reporting, and Consumption of News
Whether as a gatherer, reporter, or consumer of news, journalism can lead to vicarious trauma and PTSD.
The Neuroscience of Journalism
The neuroscience of journalism – both from the readers’ and reporters’ perspectives – is woefully understudied.
The Easy-To-Understand ChatGPT Explainer That It Could Never Write Itself
Sheeva Azma explains how ChatGPT works.
Social Media Likes, Neuroscience, and U.S. Democracy
Read Army veteran Matthew Bow’s reflections on democracy and governance in the era of social media.
Drawing the Nervous System
In 1906, two scientists, Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal, won the Nobel Prize for visualizing and drawing nerve cells.
Can You Hack Your Own Brain?
Learn about “neurohacking” in this review of Elizabeth Ricker’s book, Smarter Tomorrow.
Nobel Prize-Winning Behavioral Economics: A Window into the Human Mind
Learn about the behavioral economics researchers honored by the Nobel Prize in the Economic Sciences over the years.
Latest Research Suggests COVID-19 Affects the Brain, Raises Even More Questions
Scientists have identified some of COVID-19’s harmful effects on the brain. In this post, Sheeva Azma of Fancy Comma, LLC and Nidhi Parekh of The Shared Microscope unpack the latest research on COVID-19’s neurological effects.
How Does Functional Neuroimaging Work?
Fancy Comma, LLC’s Sheeva Azma discusses everything you need to know about noninvasive functional brain imaging such as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), and magnetoencephalography (MEG).
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