“We discovered that fine-grained patterns of neural activity within the orbitofrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with emotional processing, act as a neural code which captures an individual’s subjective feeling,” purported Adam Anderson, associate professor of human development in Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology and senior author of the study, “Population coding…
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The story of murdered mother Allison Baden-Clay has gripped Australia for the past several months. Allison’s husband Gerard Baden-Clay was accused and convicted of killing his wife Allison at their home in the affluent western Brisbane suburb of Brookfield on April 19, 2012, and dumping her body on the banks of Kholo Creek at Anstead…
Read MoreGestures & The Fist Bump
NPR reports on the Fist Bump as the new High-Five! The fist bump became a big issue when President Obama used it in his 2008 campaign as a greeting to a restaurant employee. As most of us know the fist bump has gained popular standings to signal a job well done, “I agree with you”, or “what’s…
Read MoreMusic & Our Emotions
Spotify is a music streaming service (much like Pandora) that provides digital rights management-restricted content from record labels to the greater public. With the inception of the mobile phone, specifically the iPhone (and iPods), music had become a more intrinsic part of our lives. Music can have powerful effects on our emotions and with today’s…
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