Cognitive Neuroscience Links 04/19/2010

• Thinking About Tomorrow : The Frontal Cortex

  By manipulating the amount of money on offer in each situation, Cohen and his collaborators could watch this neural tug of war unfold. Our ultimate decision - to save for the future or to indulge in the present - was largely determined by whichever region showed greater activation.

  tags: thinking, brain, gratification, cogsci

• What is the memory capacity of the human brain? Is there a physical limit to the amount of information it can store?: Scientific American

  The human brain consists of about one billion neurons. Each neuron forms about 1,000 connections to other neurons, amounting to more than a trillion connections. If each neuron could only help store a single memory, running out of space would be a problem.

  tags: memory, brain, AZB, cogsci

• Neural Correlates of Being a Total Bad-Ass

  A new fMRI study in PLoS reports Differential Brain Activation to Angry Faces by Elite Warfighters, the elite warfighters being US Navy SEALs. Neuroskeptic

  tags: NCC, brain, cogsci, AZB

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