Political marketing is all about persuasion, and brain scans show that some voter groups respond to new information with emotional rather than rational brain areas.
It's short notice, but I just ran across the info at the Neuroethics & Law Blog. On Friday, March 10, 2006, Stanford University will host Reading Minds:…
Neuroscientists at Duke, using fMRI brain scans, have shown that different brain mechanisms are at work when people make decisions under risky or ambiguous…
Neuroscientists using fMRI brain scans have shown that people pereceive different tastes depending on their expectations. Marketers can use this data to show…
Stanford neuroscientist Bill Newsome's is hoping to gain approval to implant an electrode in his brain to better understand human consciousness. The electrode…
Some pundits question whether neuroscientists scanning brains with fMRI while people watch advertisements is a valid way of measuring ad effectiveness.…
MIT researchers found that rats learn more when a break allows them to replay what they just saw in their brain. There are indications that humans may learn in…
In Think nano has ethical problems? Just wrap your brain around neuro, blogger ritalamchichi draws an interesting parallel between fears and ethical issues…