September 2006

We ran across this sketchy news item in Digital Chosunilbo, Korean Firms Turn to Neuromarketing. The article describes use of fMRI scans to aid the product development process:Korea?s largest cosmetics company Amorepacific asked Prof. Sung…

How can neuroscience inform marketing? One example comes from the increasingly hot field of neuroeconomics: a practice called asymmetric paternalism. In New Yorker writer John Cassidy's superb neuroeconomics article, Mind Games: What…

The nearly simultaneous release of a neuromarketing article, Brain Sells, in TIME Europe, and a neuroeconomics article, Mind Games, in the New Yorker, has generated a considerable amount of blog activity. (See our commentary, TIME Europe…

The recent article, Brain Sells, in the Europe edition of TIME, comments that neuromarketing is "essentially a subgenre of another emerging discipline, neuroeconomics. " When I scanned that line the first time, I saw a fair amount of truth…

John Cassidy of the New Yorker has penned an article on neuroeconomics that surely is one of the finest to date. To the extent that any magazine article about a rapidly evolving topic can be a classic, Mind Games - What neuroeconomics…

The new issue of Time Europe features an article by Thomas K. Grose, Brain Sells, that neatly sums up some of the work being done to harness fMRI brain scans to improve marketing campaigns. They focus on the work of Neurosense, an…

Any parent whose kids have reached teenage years can tell you that teens think differently than adults. Now, neuroscientists are finding just how differently the teen brain works. Of particular interest to those involved in neuromarketing…

In a development sure to fascinate those interested in neuromarketing, neuroeconomics, and just about any other brain science-related discipline, neuroscientists at the University of New Mexico have developed a technique that can reliably…

South Korean neuroscientists experimenting with high-resolution positron emission tomography (PET) brain scans claim the technique offers more accurate results than fMRI techniques. Cho Zang-hee, the director of Gachon University of…

Functional magnetic resonance imaging has been one of the tools of choice for neuroscientists investigating brain activity - its scan data can be processed into colorful brain images showing which areas of the brain are active at a given…