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Factoid: You won’t forget this

The idea that your brain contains information that ‘you’ cannot access is, of course, not new … what is new, is the demonstration by scientists (in 2005 by Haynes, J-D. & Rees, G.) that they can use a scan to read off information from your brain that you are unable to access yourself.

In 2006, lead researcher Leun Otten reports that they can use measures of the brain’s surface electrical activity to predict whether someone will remember a word that they’re about to look at.

“It sounds a bit like clairvoyance in the sense that we’re able to predict whether someone will remember a word before they even see it. That’s really new – scientists knew that brain activity changes as you store things into memory but now we have found brain activity that tells how well your memory will work in advance”. Spooky.

I don’t know the answer to this question, but I wonder what implications these findings have for the way software developers design software for Tablet PCs?

Haynes, J-D. & Rees, G. (2005). Predicting the orientation of invisible stimuli from activity in human primary visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 8, 686-691.

Otten, L.J., Quayle, A.H., Akram, S., Ditewig, T.A. & Rugg, M.D. (2006). Brain activity before an event predicts later recollection. Nature Neuroscience. In Press. DOI: 10.1038/nn1663.

Robert Heiny
Robert Heinyhttp://www.robertheiny.com
Robert W. Heiny, Ph.D. is a retired professor, social scientist, and business partner with previous academic appointments as a public school classroom teacher, senior faculty, or senior research member, and administrator. Appointments included at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Peabody College and the Kennedy Center now of Vanderbilt University; and Brandeis University. Dr. Heiny also served as Director of the Montana Center on Disabilities. His peer reviewed contributions to education include publication in The Encyclopedia of Education (1971), and in professional journals and conferences. He served s an expert reviewer of proposals to USOE, and on a team that wrote plans for 12 state-wide and multistate special education and preschools programs. He currently writes user guides for educators and learners as well as columns for TuxReports.com.

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