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Brain Training could prove a hit with older gamers

I’m sure most of you realize this. Waking up feeling refreshed is not a matter of how much you sleep. It’s about waking up in the correct stage of your sleep cycle. Here’s a great article explaining sleep cycle in detail. In short, if you want to wa

本書以生動的方式精彩介紹了今日的顯學──大腦科學，這是探討人格特質基本元素的新奇旅程，讓我們透過前所未有的方式瞭解自己，重新詮釋自我。書中融合了經驗報導、個人敘述及科學發

This is part three of my five part series on programming logic games. This week's game, Bug Brain, uses neural nets as its programming model. Neural nets are a mainstay of machine learning in computer science and of science fiction stories. In each Bug Brain level, you have to construct a neural net to guide your bug to complete some task. For example, in the level pictured below, you program the lady bug, and your task to have it eat the three bugs without falling off the branch.

功能磁振造影的最新研究結果顯示，男人看到壞人受到懲罰時，不但不會感同身受，甚至會幸災樂禍，但女性看到別人受罰反而都會心生同情。

基於興趣，碩士論文我是作 Bio-machine modeling 方面的題目，在歸類上屬於人造生命（Artificial Life, ALife）的範疇，選擇的 target 是神經細胞的生長、發育。

在〈The fitness of things〉文末提到的《矽眼》，我這個月初在網路上得知此書，於 8 號溜到政大書城購買，當天就熬夜將它閱讀完畢、畫上重點、附上書籤。原本想個評介的，想想還是把我批註的部份整理整理，將內文摘錄摘錄就好：

Recent research has revealed that brains continue to produce new neurons throughout life, helping create new neural networks.

TIME Puzzles

"By borrowing mathematical tools from theoretical physics, scientists have recently developed a theory that explains why the brain tissue of humans and other vertebrates is segregated into the familiar "gray matter" and "white matter."

Female hormones circulating in the brain determine masculine behavior, at least in mice. Estrogen--the quintessential female hormone responsible for regulating the reproductive cycle--turns lady mice into wannabe male mice when it is allowed to penetrate

interesting bit about little known technology for pure pleasure via electrical stimulation directly to the brain's pleasure centre

沒有認知能力的動物會藉由簡單的嘗試錯誤法來學習，為慣性學習法（habit learning），但人類不同，不論學習什麼，都傾向用意識思考，所以學者們不確定人類是否仍保有這個能力，故美國聖地亞哥加州大學的研究員利用失憶症（amnesia）的病患，證明人類仍保有這個原始的本能。

This is awesome, Scientists Can Predict A Thought 5 Seconds Before You Think It, "The process can be compared to the way Google works. On average, the time between beginning brain activity associated with the memory and the subjects verbally stating the m