March 2008

Neuromarketing will be on display at this week’s annual Advertising Research Foundation meeting, and one of the more interesting presentations is likely to be an analysis of past winners of Lion and Effie awards. For the study, EmSense…

In the last day or two, the popular press has been gushing over the finding that meditation can change the brain. I'm not sure why - the twin concepts of neurogenesis (the brain creating new neurons) and neuroplasticity (changes in brain…

One of the fears raised by critics of neuromarketing is that by observing the brains of subjects reacting to ads, marketers will be able to make those ads much more manipulative than those developed using conventional approaches. I don't…

WIRED ran an interesting piece that suggests increasingly invasive brain technologies will become a legal battleground. The more obvious areas have already been discussed here and elsewhere: using brain scans as lie detectors or to see if…

The latest flap in the U.S. presidential campaign is Hillary Clinton's vivid recounting of arriving in Bosnia in 1996: "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but…

Readership of Neuromarketing keeps growing, but now Yale researchers have published a paper that reveals my dirty little secret...

Starbucks has been under pressure to increase store revenue and profits, and, once again, they are turning to sensory branding for the solution. The most startling change is that the firm will go back to grinding coffee in its stores for…

Did you ever wonder why some people have such insight into the behavior and feelings of others? Certainly, some of the great advertising execs, copywriters, and other pros seem to have it, particularly for certain groups or markets. But…

Businesses are often portrayed as rapacious partners, seeking to squeeze every penny out of their deals. Indeed, some are... the result is often a relationship between defined by a fat contract that seeks to protect both parties against…

Toronto’s Globe & Mail published a fairly lengthy story on neuromarketing, with a lot of discussion of Nielsen Co.’s acquisition of NeuroFocus. The story recounts an anecdote from the latter’s CEO, A. K. Pradeep: Dr. Pradeep cites…