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I do agree with Mr. Gopnik.
In the last few months here in Italy there is an open controversy going on upon the role and even the real existence of mirror neurons in human's brain and macaque's brain as well (see: I neuroni specchio esistono o non esistono nell'uomo, at www.brainfactor.it ). Beside for the real existence of this new category of neurons, which I do not ...
Posted to Brains! by Claudio Messori on October 10, 2009
New Science Restores Brain Buzz
Slate published this piece on April 25, accurately stating that the science didn't support the idea that mental exercise could have any kind of substantial effect on our ability to think. But on April 28, Susanne Jaeggi and Martin Buschkuehl published the results of a new study on Improving Fluid Intelligence by Training Working Memory (PNAS April ...
Posted to Brains! by brain-exercises on July 20, 2008