By Cliff Atkinson Michael Schrage writes and consults about the design and diffusion of digital innovation and their effects on business relationships. One innovation called PowerPoint has had a big effect on business, and according to Michael, a core problem with it is the fact that it […]
Read more →Scientific American Mind Volume 25, Issue 2 Mar 1, 2014 |By Heather Walker Geoffrey A. Kerchner, assistant professor of neurology and neurological sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine, responds: To a brain scientist, processing speed means just that: the rate at which a human can […]
Read more →Listening to classical music makes you smarter In 1993, a small study showed that college students who listened to a Mozart sonata and then took an IQ test got higher spatial scores than those who didn’t. But this so-called “Mozart effect” wore off in less than 15 […]
Read more →By Scott Barry Kaufman | February 25, 2014 | Scientific American There’s a scene in the 1988 movie Rain Man in which Raymond Babbitt (played by Dustin Hoffman) recites a waitress’s phone number. Naturally the waitress is shocked. Instead of mental telepathy, Raymond had memorized the entire […]
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