Dr. Anne Beate Reinertsen PhD is associate professor and post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Education at Nord-Trøndelag University College, Norway. The professor welcomes you to her brain. She offers you this explanation in her paper entitled : ‘Welcome to My Brain’ (in: Qualitative Inquiry, July 12, 2013) “This is about developing recursive, intrinsic, […]
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Ig Nobel winner Frans de Waal: The intelligence of animals
Ig Nobel Prize winner Frans de Waal published an essay about “The Brains of the Animal Kingdom“, in the Wall Street Journal. It begins: Who is smarter: a person or an ape? Well, it depends on the task. Consider Ayumu, a young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University who, in a 2007 study, put human memory to […]
Gorilla Ig Nobellian reviews Full-Bladder Winners
Writing in the New York Times Book Review, Chris Chabris, who together with Dan Simons was awarded the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize in psychology (for their experiment in which people did not notice a gorilla) explores some recent books about how well the brain makes decisions. In particular Professor Chabris appreciates the work of the 2011 Ig Nobel medicine prize winners: Is the […]
Are our brains too big?
Noble Prizewinner François Jacob outlined a quandary in a 1977 lecture at the University of California : “Although our brain represents the main adaptive feature of our species, what it is adapted to is not clear at all.” This quandary remains, to this day, unresolved. But attempts to answer it have been made – by, […]