Neuro News Nanos
Here are today’s:
* Religious people show less brain activation — relax, just in a specific region when they make mistakes on a simple task — it seems they feel less anxiety about contradictions in their world
* We should report cars’ fuel-efficiency in Gallons Per Mile, not Miles Per Gallon — don’t ask me about the math (I was a history major, after all) — but the fact that Miles Per Gallon isn’t a linear function means we don’t understand that a 5 to 10 MPG jump is much bigger than a 25 to 30 MPG jump — reversing things gives us a more readily understandable system
* Look at a picture of a person having his or her face touched, and you’re more likely to feel your face being touched — but only if the person in the photograph looks like you
* You might want to stop reading this blog — cognitive decline apparently begins in the late 20s — and I’m leaving my late 20s behind way too soon
* And, speaking of our misperceptions of numbers, see the cartoon above, from the excellent Web comic xkcd
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