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Do you stress eat?

9 February 2016 by Anne Riches Leave a Comment

I like this TED talk on breaking a bad habit. It has a practical approach that I think could help.

 

Filed Under: Neuroscience of Change Tagged With: bad habits, brain, mindfulness, neuroscience, stress

70,000 thoughts per day? Another myth exploded?

29 October 2015 by Anne Riches Leave a Comment

I love the blog by the Neurocritic.

In one of the most recent blogs, a new film called Listening is reviewed and well as the concept of how many thoughts we have a day.

I too have always wondered where the 70,000 number comes from.

Here’s what the Neuroocritic has to say on this:

“Well, popular lore says we have 70,000 thoughts per day, which comes out to only 0.8101851851851852 thoughts per second. But this is also absurd, since we haven’t yet defined what a “thought” even is. Interesting factoid: the Laboratory of Neuroimaging (LONI) at UCLA has taken credit for this number. But they did offer some caveats:

*This is still an open question (how many thoughts does the average human brain processes in 1 day). LONI faculty have done some very preliminary studies using undergraduate student volunteers and have estimated that one may expect around 60-70K thoughts per day. These results are not peer-reviewed/published. There is no generally accepted definition of what “thought” is or how it is created. In our study, we had assumed that a “thought” is a sporadic single-idea cognitive concept resulting from the act of thinking, or produced by spontaneous systems-level cognitive brain activations.

theoracleofdelphi-ga had some interesting thoughts on the matter:

So there’s the heart of the problem: No one really knows what the biological basis for a ‘thought’ is, so we can’t compute how fast a brain can produce them. Once you figure out the biological basis for a thought (and return from the Nobel ceremony) you can ask the question again and expect a reasonable scientific answer.

In the mean time, you could probably get a bunch of psychologists to argue about the definition of a thought for a while, and get a varying set of answers that depend highly on the definitions.”

Interesting!!! Can’t wait to see the movie.

Filed Under: Neuroscience of Change Tagged With: brain, neuroscience

Your brain is like tofu!

13 August 2015 by Anne Riches Leave a Comment

Bowl of white tofu cheese  on white backgroundLove the easy way these brain facts are presented.

10 things you didn’t know about your brain

Filed Under: Neuroscience of Change Tagged With: brain, neuroscience

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