Archive for November, 2006
November 20, 2006: 9:33 pm: docmoUncategorized
Colonialism and white supremacy to blame for poverty in Africa, not low IQ says race professor
A Liverpool-born associate professor from Miami University in the USA has hit back at an LSE researcher who claims that low IQ is to blame for poverty in Africa, citing colonialism and white supremacy for the under-development of Africa.
The row erupted after Asian lecturer Satoshi Kanazawa recently published research in the British Journal of Health [...]
Press release: New York City to Use Professor’s Scale to Identify Gifted Students
Also see our entry for the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test.
A diagnostic test developed by a Florida State University education professor has been selected by the New York City Department of Education for use in determining whether students in that city’s schools are gifted.
“It was extremely gratifying and humbling that New York City schools — the [...]
New strategies urged for ?learning disabled?
Large numbers of students diagnosed with learning disabilities could be helped by better reading instruction, particularly in the lower grades, state education officials believe.More than 30,000 Colorado students are considered learning disabled - the largest handicap category among the state’s 83,000 special education students. Numbers are similar in other states.
But educators now believe most of [...]
Nintendo Wii, emotions and cognitive fidelity
Jonah Lehrer from the Frontal Cortex blog has written a good article on the Nintendo Wii, William James and Antonio Damasio over at seedmagazine.com, How the Nintendo Wii will get you emotionally invested in video games.
A couple of quotes
- While Sony and Microsoft exercise your thumbs, Nintendo gives you a full body workout. - “This [...]
November 19, 2006: 7:46 pm: docmoUncategorized
E-mail: Workplace ?emotional hazard?
E-mail is a tricky thing. For every message you send, there is a 50percent chance the intended tone of the e-mail will be misinterpreted, according to research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
“I’ve given up e-mail as a casual form of communication altogether,” said Dusty Riggins, a technology manager.
Yes, even a tech [...]
Trader Peak Performance and biofeedback programs
Brett Steenbarger, the renown expert in Trader Performance and author of the blog TraderFeed: Exploiting the edge from historical market patterns, among many things, just posted a kind note on our Peak Performance/ emotional management solution for traders.
He says: “This is the first biofeedback application that I’m aware of that is uniquely marketed to traders. [...]
November 18, 2006: 9:02 am: docmoUncategorized
Will traumatic stress sharpen your memory ? or sabotage it?
An East Coast officer was telling an interviewer about the night he was ambushed from a passing car and half his face was blown away by a shotgun. “One thing I’ll never forget is that license plate,” he declared. He confidently recited the number seared into his mind.
Turns out it was wrong. His memory of [...]
November 17, 2006: 7:10 pm: AlvaroUncategorized
Mind Wars and The Dana Guide to Brain Health
Being a fan of the Dana Foundation and their podcast series, I felt honored when Dana Press representatives asked whether I would like to receive and review 2 of their recent books, Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense, and The Dana Guide to Brain Health: a Practical Family Reference from Medical Experts. They just arrived, [...]
Andrew Mantas may be brain damaged
A 16-year-old Danville boy accused of beating his mother to death with a metal baseball bat is scheduled to return to court next week to enter a plea, according to his attorney Daniel Horowitz.
Contra Costa County prosecutors are charging Andrew Mantas as an adult in the murder of his mother, 43-year-old Dimitra Mantas on Nov. [...]
Let’s all age like him: Milton Friedman
“Conservative and liberal colleagues alike viewed Friedman, a Nobel laureate, as one of the leading economic scholars of the 20th century, on a par with giants like John Maynard Keynes and Paul Samuelson.”
Full International Herald Tribune obituary
Statement from the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation.
November 16, 2006: 6:41 pm: AlvaroUncategorized
Enhancing Trader Performance and The Psychology of Trading: Interview with Brett N. Steenbarger
Today we are going to talk about the applications of cognitive neuroscience to trading and neurofinance. Brett N. Steenbarger , Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University, active trader for over 30 years, former Director of Trader Development for Kingstree Trading, LLC, and author of The Psychology of [...]
Aerobics for One Hour, Three Times a Week Can Reverse Cognitive Decline
Every wannabe rocker’s stairway to seventh heaven. Richard Helmer of CSIRO explains and demonstrates…
…somewhat unconvincingly. He could just be playing a “real” air guitar (i.e. idiotically insanely thrashing his arms about in time to some rock music).
November 15, 2006: 6:06 pm: docmoUncategorized
Where do roots of violence among Muslim youth lie?
Speakers at an international conference here reached a consensus that Islam or Muslims cannot be stereotyped as terrorists or radicals because the reaction of young Muslims was against the tyranny and suppression perpetuated against the Ummah by the West.
The guarded and apologetic tone was used at the conference titled “Emerging Global Scenario: Survival of Muslim [...]
“Everyone a Changemaker”, Ashoka and Google
What an event yesterday night. My wife and I were fortunate to visit the Google Campus and attend the Sixth Annual North American Fellowship Induction Program of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, a social venture fund where we have been involved for a number of years, and thanks to which (thanks Michele!) my wife and I [...]
Biofeedback for Emotional Management and Peak Performance
Technology & Learning magazine, widely read among school administrators, has just published a good article Take a Deep Breath: Biofeedback software is helping students calm down for better test performance.
Some quotes
- (School principal says) “It just goes to show that the emotional state can really affect a child’s performance on the test,” says Lagozzino, who practices the [...]
November 14, 2006: 8:37 am: reidelUncategorized
Daniel Goleman?s Social Intelligence: The elusive landscape of social intelligence
Paul Harris, Developmental Psychology Professor at Harvard, penned this review for Slate:
Going to school in England during the 1950s, I came to accept the idea that intellectual ability is pretty much all of one piece—you have a lot or you have a little. In fact, the entire United Kingdom school system reinforced that way of [...]
Brain Coach Answers: Is “placenta brain” real? I can’t remember anything ever since I got pregnant!
Q: Is “placenta brain” real? I am 6 months pregnant and can’t remember anything ever since I got pregnant!
A: Yes, in the third trimester.
Women everywhere have complained that they feel “out of it” or extremely absent-minded while they’re pregnant, and books, doctors, midwives, etc. have all warned expectant mothers about feeling quite scattered, distracted, and [...]
MindFit, IntelliGym, RoboMemo, FreezeFramer
MindFit, IntelliGym, RoboMemo, Freeze-Framer? Is this a puzzle? As you may have noticed, we just started to offer through the website some of the Brain Fitness programs we have been talking about. For over a year we have been searching for best programs worldwide, and here you have some of the programs we have found. We [...]
November 13, 2006: 8:23 pm: docmoUncategorized
No family for the holidays? Party with your friends, the family you choose
Unable to spend the holidays with family members this year? Many people are away from “home” in today’s mobile society.
College and jobs take us away from our hometowns, often long distances away.
So, what do you do? Create a sense of connectedness to others in your life, advises Paul Siegel, an assistant professor of clinical psychology [...]
‘You can never be too thin’: Anorexia and Bulimia on the web
Pro-anorexia Web sites have gained popularity in the last few years, and Missouri University researchers have conducted the first study on the psychological effects of these sites.
When you’re hungry, take a nap. Shower, drink tea, numb your taste buds with teething gel, give yourself a manicure. Do anything but eat. These are some of the tips [...]
