Certainly very expensive, but while it is tricky to keep kids still, using sedation is not an approved nor common protocol for getting an MRI of a person at any age.

this smells like a phd thesis in the making.

Correction: last para., fluid intelligence, not fluid memory.

Invasion of the Lava Men!!!

correction: The words were displayed for 1/30th of a second (33ms). 1/300th of a second would be difficult for even Ted Williams.

why is this very simple and staggering point not addressed in the original article?

Iron Man as Bird in Space. That's pretty inspired.

I'll take whatever PG i can get. It was a shame to cut her just as her character was getting some depth. Sales rule i guess.

What is a bit more troubling is the limitations of things people can read now because of e-readers. Out-of-print books? Forget it. Science books (not pop-science)? Either unavailable or exceedingly expensive. Less-than-famous works by famous authors? Pbbpplt.

Agreed. Even more egregious is that the post cites ONE scientific study, when there are dozens of studies supporting the idea that distracted driving impairs driving. Type "distracted driving" into pubmed and just take a brief look at the abstracts. [www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] . NONE of them support the idea that you can…

Not to be crazy, but put this out of the party scene and it sounds like an episode of Law & Order waiting to happen.

Whoah! Are you the real Boris Konrad, German Memory Champion? Awesome! Celebrity commenter!

One of the original studies to which you're referring to ([www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]) has been poorly replicated and didn't actually look at any brain data at all; only self-reported drinking habits of a few thousand Italians. It is true that moderate use is not associated with significant levels of dementia or mental…

This is basically how the British walk in public places. I live in Cambridge and i can go across the entire city and not make eye contact once. While this may make you a more efficient walker, its really alienating. I can usually pick out Americans pretty easy because they're the ones that will bother to look at you;…

i use the logitech ipad keyboard, its got better action than the mac board and looks nicer but essentially the same. a problem i've encountered with some of these smaller bluetooth keyboards is the missing keys (function keys, pound symbol, delete key). A very convenient fix has been AutoHotKey: [www.autohotkey.com]

I think the most exciting part of Komisaruk's work that it could lead to therapies for female paraplegics who are unable to attain orgasm via touch. His work builds towards the idea that stimulation of the vagus nerve elicits the orgasm. This could be applied externally.

Very good points. Do you think there's any merit to the thought that psychology's central law (if you had to have one), is in fact the primacy of subjective experience, and the value of subjective report? I have heard that so long as we have self-report, psychology will never die...

Glad you asked. There are a few notable things human language has which have not been reliably observed in animals; i'm not an anthropologist, and you can find these in any antro 101 textbook, but the most relevant to this discussion:

honestly, how many primates flicking off the camera photos are there?

One should keep in mind that language is more than communication. The distinction is important, and elementary.