Education in the arts tranfer and develop cognitive abilities. I totally agree with the arguments of this study. Michael Posner argues that when children find an art form that sustains their interest, the subsequent strengthening of their brains’ attention networks can improve cognition more broadly.' ' Does education in the arts transfer to seemingly unrelated cognitive abilities? Researchers are finding evidence that it does. If I look at the one, I will.'Arts Education' is a new excellent post, like all your posts that I often read and always appreciate.

Statistics don't activate moral emotions: the many is a countless mass, but the one is human: 'If I look at the mass, I will never act.

When a person can't see the person they are not being fair to or hurting, they end up having no sympathy.

Moral decision making is about sympathy altruism feels good.

Autistics feel emotions, but can't read emotions of others psychopaths can't feel eomtion, but can read emotions of others.

Confabulation of the brain: emotions make the moral decision, then prefrontal cortex provides reasoning after the fact.

O MRIs convince doctors of cause even when it's not there

Too much info can interfere can interfere with understanding (e.g.

Anchoring effect can be huge: SSN + cost of something => people's beliefs in cost will correlate to SSN, a meaningless number.

When rational brain hijacks the mind, it is easy to go for option that sounds the best instead of feels the best, even if it is a bad idea.

If you think too much, you can choke because you're second guessing your intuitive expertise built over much practise.

In a crisis, it's best to focus on useful data, ignoring the rest.de Martino: 'People who are more rational don't perceive emotion les, they just regulate it better'.How a question is framed often changes people's responses.Panic produces perceptual narrowing: 'big fire: run away!'.Loss aversion is innate flaw: 'bad is stronger than good' for the brain.Losses loom larger than gains - Tversky + Kahneman.Silly to try to beat market with the brain.Random processes take advantage of this defect: gambling behaviours.Dopamine gets even more excited by surprising rewards - 3 to 4x.Unless the brain experiences being wrong, it'll never revise its models.

Bohr: 'an expert has made all possible mistakes in a narrow field'.

Dopamine generates predictions and then compares predictions to reality afterward, studying prediction errors.

TD-Gammon backgammon engine doesn’t use brute force, instead predicts behaviour.

dopamine release is huge in decision making.

emotional brain has been refined by evolution over 100 000 000+ yearsĬhapter 2 – The predictions of dopamine – responding to negative + positive feedback.

reason doesn’t exist without emotions, “reason is the slave of the passions”.

Chapter 1 – Quarterback in the pocket – “feelings”

How we decide by jonah lehrer