Illusion of the Week: A Hidden Message for Children
Foundation ANAR, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection of children at risk, has come up with a clever illusion as part of a campaign against child abuse.
Illusion Chasers
Illusions, Delusions, and Everyday Deceptions
The Color of Pain
Want to know an effective way to reduce pain from burns? Cover the affected red area, so you are unable to look at it. Ideally, use a blue bandage.
Illusion of the Week: Tangible Checkershadow
Here's a "dramatization" of the original Checkershadow Illusion by MIT vision scientist Ted Adelson.
Fat Tuesday: Does Jet-Lag Make You Chronobese?
Chronic jetlag, habitual night shifts, and rotating shift work, can have deleterious consequences on circadian organization and metabolic health, says a new report in the Annals of the New York Academy of Science...
The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation by Peter Ulric Tse (MIT Press, 2013)
I love Tse’s book. It has literally set me free.
Neuroscience in Fiction: Crux, by Ramez Naam
Crux (Angry Robot Books) is an outstanding speculative fiction adventure. It combines the very highest level of neuroscientific reality with plausible neuroscience fiction that is very well thought through...
Pain is an emotion
Our new column in Scientific American Mind is out today and it's about the illusory nature of pain, and how pain perception and severity varies with mood and circumstances.
Illusion of the week: The Primal Flashlight
This illusion will enhance not only the brightness and color, but also the details of the visual scene.
Fat Tuesday: Neurosurgery versus bariatric surgery in obesity
A study in the journal Neurosurgical Focus has calculated thate DBS will have to be 83% effective in order for it to be a better choice than gastric bypass for obese patients.
Neuroscience in Fiction: The Princess Bride
The novel is a wonderful read, but something that I hadn't expected is that the plot would revolve so much around the topic of pain, both psychological and physical.
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