Synchronization in the brain is influenced by “theta waves” which are associated with relaxation, daydreaming and drowsiness, but also with learning and memory formation, the scientists explained in the study in the journal Nature.
While scientists already know that relaxed minds are better at receiving new information, this study pinpoints a mechanism by which relaxation neurons work together to improve memory.
“Our research shows that when memory-related neurons are well coordinated to theta waves during the learning process, memories are stronger,” said Adam Mamelak, a neurosurgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
I don’t want you to confuse being happy with being soft. One can be both happy and hard-nosed at the same time. In fact, I like to consider myself a happy warrior. I love life and relish in the entreprenurial adventure, but yet I am (or try to be) ruthless in how I judge and execute that which is important around me and my baby.
In their study, participants (students) were shown a flyer complimenting them for being stylish and chic and were asked to imagine that it had come from a clothing store. The participants knew perfectly well the compliment wasn’t aimed specifically at them, and the ulterior motive was plain — the leaflet contained a message asking them to shop at the store. There was nothing subtle about the attempt to flatter — its obviousness was “over the top,” Sengupta says.
On a conscious level, the students discounted the value of the compliment because of its impersonal nature and the ulterior motive. But careful assessment of their implicit attitudes revealed that they felt more positively about the store than participants who hadn’t seen the flyer. These positive feelings could have an impact on a company’s bottom line, the researchers found: Given a choice, participants were more likely to choose a coupon from a store that had complimented them than from one that hadn’t.
The winners in the new time-compressed age will be the producers of content that stretch the boundaries by marketing products beneath the Threshold of Care and over-delivering on content in the bubble of time we’ve deemed acceptable and then stretching that bubble of time from within. You log in to Facebook to check a quick message and before you know it you’ve messaged, poked, posted, and spent an hour consuming content on different people’s walls.
Ah, at least we have that. The one thing that reliably helps make sense of a world in chaos, or at least makes it briefly more tolerable. But this is where the news gets worse. This comforting crutch of man has crossed over into the chaos.I am referring, of course, to draft beer in a bottle.
In a nutshell, or in a bottle as the case may be, draft beer in a bottle represents everything wrong with the world today.
If you want to tell where a car is going (perpendicular to you like at an intersection; parallel to you like driving ahead and possibly merging lanes), the best way to do so is by looking at their wheels. It gives you more accurate relative markings.
If a car is at an intersection and rolls forward, you’ll notice their tire rotating before you can see the car moving relative to, let’s say, a stop sign or light post.
If a car is traveling ahead of you and is merging, you’ll notice their tire moving relative to the road lines before you notice that the car body has moved towards you.
Young people tend to accept the following statement more quickly than older people: the world is no more violent or crazy or _____ than it used to be, you’re just more aware of it due to the better spread of information (like the Internet, 24-hour news, etc).
Dr. Michael Hampton is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and
Director of Interdisciplinary Studies. He has been a UCF faculty member
since 1981. He also has worked in the Materials Testing Branch of
Kennedy Space Center as a Materials Engineer for NASA. He is also
currently Deputy Editor-in-Chief, “International Journal for
Alternative Fuel and Ecology”, and holds an appointment at the Florida
Solar Energy Center. His research is in the area of hydrogen storage,
sensing, purification and separation, and production. He works with
scientists in the former Soviet Union funding for peaceable research.
