Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
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Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
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Mirroring (or subconsciously imitating your conversation partner’s facial expressions, speech patterns, gestures, and even breathing patterns) allows for empathy and stronger connections.
When two people truly understand each other, their brains literally synchronize, the listener’s brain mirroring the speaker’s with a short delay.
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People spend 46.9 percent of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing, and this mind-wandering typically makes them unhappy. So says a study that used an iPhone Web app to gather 250,000 data points on subjects’ thoughts, feelings, and actions as they went about their lives.
The study, which is published in the September issue of the journal Social Science & Medicine, looked at the reading patterns of 3,635 people who were 50 or older. On average, book readers were found to live for almost two years longer than non-readers. The researchers discovered that up to 12 years on, those who read for more than 3.5 hours a week were 23% less likely to die, while those who read for up to 3.5 hours a week were 17% less likely to die. Overall, during follow-up, 33% of non-book readers died, compared to 27% of book readers.
In a small trial using CAR-T therapy—which reprograms the DNA of immune cells to attack tumors—every patient responded to their treatment.
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Exercise, learning, and exposure to new environments are the major impetuses for neural growth.
C train cars are now, according to New York subway officials, the oldest in continuous daily operation in the world.
New Yorkers consume less than half the energy of the average American.
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Reasons why Americans smile more frequently and enthusiastically than the rest of the world:
-There’s a correlation between a country’s instability and the perception that smiling looks stupid.
-There’s a correlation between a country’s diversity and emotional expressiveness among its population; language barriers cause reliance on nonverbal communication—namely smiling—to build trust.
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Portugal produces about half of the world’s cork; one-third of the world’s cork oak is located there.
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“By substituting concrete and steel with wood from sustainably managed forests, the building industry could curb up to 31% of global carbon emissions, according to research1 by Chad Oliver, a forest ecologist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. In time, such a shift could help humanity to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere, potentially reversing the course of climate change.”
But only if the wood is harvested from sustainably managed forests.
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Feedback and self-assessment (metacognition) are key to effective practice and learning.
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“Research from the Netherlands and the US just published in the journal Current Biology suggests that looking at intensely stripy things causes an increase in gamma oscillations in the brain, which are associated with headaches and seizures.”
“It seems that our brains are not designed to cope with such extreme regularity, as it doesn’t occur in nature. The researchers found that once they distorted the lines slightly or blurred their edges, the oscillations died down.”
Inexplicably, horizontal stripes are harder on the brain that vertical ones
https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2017/may/09/stripes-escalators-venetian-blinds-cause-headaches-migraine
https://www.coursera.org/learn/mindshift/lecture/a42Oz/1-11-natural-passions-career-choice-and-gender
Studies have shown that people think more freely and abstractly in rooms with high ceilings; people under low ceilings tend to focus on specifics.
Sunlight promotes arousal; dark indoor lighting promotes inactivity.
Large windows with views of nature encourage healing.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/mindshift/lecture/KBuYQ/1-9-your-environment-affects-who-you-are
Quiet environments activate the focused mode attention circuits in the prefrontal cortex, making them ideal to concentrate in. Background noise allows the brain to go into diffuse mode, which facilitates creativity and conceptual understanding.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/mindshift/lecture/rNLjr/1-8-learning-something-hard-the-coffee-shop-trick