Cognitive Neuroscience Links 05/11/2010

• Novelty Seekers are Emotion and Reward Seekers

  fMRI studies show that people who score on novelty seeking scores (high exploratory, extravagant response to potential pleasures) also score the highest on emotional expectancy and activation of the medial prefrontal cortex (reward). Eide Neurolearning Blog

  tags: neurolearning, brain, cogsci

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Cognitive Neuroscience Links 05/07/2010

• Different types of synaesthetic experiences involve different brain mechanisms : Neurophilosophy

  Dutch psychologists now report that different types of synaesthetic experiences are associated with different brain mechanisms, providing a rare glimpse into the workings of the black box.

  tags: synesthesia, cogsci, grue, brain, AZB

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