- The master would stand over the apprentice and watch. The students would pick up a chick, examine its rear, and toss it into a bin… the master would ggive feedback: yes or no… After weeks, the studen’s brain was trained to master the skill… nobody could explain what the cues were (1) – page 58 3
- In order to identify whether planes were British or German, a novice would hazard a guess and the expert would say yes or no. Eventually the novices became experts (2) – page 58 3
- Patients with amnesia will still improve at Tetris with practice (3) – page 59 3
- People appear more beautiful if you only get a glimpse of them (4) – page 92 4
- A woman is considered to be more beautiful at the peak of her fertility (5) – page 93 4?
- A woman’s ears and breasts become more symmetrical in the days leading up to ovulation (6) – page 94 4?
- Brains are like representative democracies (7) – page 107 5
- Most people would rather take $100 right now than $110 in a week… Most people would rather take $110 53 weeks from now than $100 52 weeks from now (8) – page 115 5
- When the rewards were immediate or near-term, emotionally involved brain strucutres were activated… these areas were associated with impulsive behavior including drug addiction… when particapnts opted for long ter rewrads, lateral reas of the cortex involved in higher cognition and deliberation were more active (9) – page 116 5
- Under normal circumstances, memories are consolidated by the hippocampus… During frightening experiences, the amygdala lays down memories (10) – page 126 5
- We come to know our own attidues and emotions by inferring htem from observations of our own behaviors (11) – page 134 5
- After many repetitions, students began to pick up the pattern… conscious explanations did not match what they had done (12) – page 138 5
- The act of not discussing an event may be damaging (13) – page 145 5
- When subjects confessed or wrote their secrets, their health improved, their doctor visist went down, and their stress hormones decreased (14) – page 145 5
- Damage to the amygdala caused emotional and social disturbances (15) – page 153 5
- Damage to the amygdala caused lack of fear, blunting of emotions, and overreaction (16) – page 153 5
- Mothers with damage to their amygdala neglected or abused their children (17) – page 153 5
- 57 percent of frontotemporal dementia patietns display socially violating behavior that sets them up for trouble with the law, as compared to only 7 percent of Alzheimer’s patients (18) – page 156 5
- When patients were given a drug to treat Parkinson’s disease, many became problem gamblers (19) – page 156 5
- Substance abuse and n exposure ot a variety of toxisn during pregnancy can damage the child’s brian, modifying intelligence, aggression, and decision making abilities (20) – page 157 6
- There are measurable brain diffeernece sin brain activity of murders, but theses differences are subtle and revela themselves only in group measureuement… the same goes for psychopaths (21) – page 174 6
- Poor impulse control is a hallmark of the majority of criminals (22) – page 182 6
- Looking at pictures of chocolate cake, you practice making the bar go down that represents your neural impulses (23) – page 183 6
- All known serial murderes wer abused as children (24) – page 191 6
- With a combination of alleles, there is a strong link between cannabis use and adult psychosis; with a different combination, the link is weak (25) – page 215 7
- Antisocial personality disorder had the hgiehst likelihood of occurring when brain abnormalities were combined with a history of advesre enivnoemntal experiences (26) – page 215 7
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