Cognitive

Your Cognitive Roadmap Starts Here: Creating Anchors for the Music Industry Community

Source: HypeBot
September 28, 2010

Every day hundreds of news items, blog posts, and links infiltrate my screen. The challenge used to be determining the difference between which bits and bytes need to be paid attention to and those that can be safely ignored. Then, I'd be charged with the task of choosing which of these stories merit getting an item or essay written about them and those that can be simply linked to in the more news section. Sometimes, inferring the variation between the ...
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Cognitive Surplus, Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

Source: Michael Ricci
July 2, 2010

The Shallows, What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. How is the Internet affecting us, socially and individually? And is it helping? Two authors survey the situation.

When I was looking for a job after college, I bought the Sunday New York Times and scanned the classifieds, circling promising descriptions with a red pen. I mailed in my resume and waited for a call on my landline. That was 11 years ago the last time I looked for a ...
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Cognitive Surplus: The Great Spare-Time Revolution

Source: All About Jazz
June 1, 2010

People don't just do things for money, says Pink. 'We do things because they are interesting.'

Clay Shirky and Daniel Pink have led eerily parallel lives. Both grew up in Midwest university towns in the 1970s, where they spent their formative years watching television after school and at night. Both later went to Yale (a BA in painting for Shirky, a law degree for Pink). And both eventually abandoned their chosen fields to write about technology, business, and society.

Now ...
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Effect of Music on Cognitive Function

Source: Michael Ricci
March 1, 2010

Playing an instrument seems to make learning math and foreign languages easier, but researchers arent sure why.

Taylor Bredberg is an ardent fan of the indie band Grizzly Bear and the TV series “Lost," is an amateur filmmaker and a doodler of figures that bring to mind Tim Burton's kinetic grostesques. But if those interests make him a pretty normal teenager, Bredberg's eight-year relationship with the piano may have made him a little more unusual: He is a kid with ...
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Cognitive Scientists Seek to Quantify Body Movement

Source: Michael Ricci
March 9, 2009

With a dozen high-def cameras and a couple of camcorders, plus pens, notebooks, sketch pads and laptops, more than 40 people spent three recent weeks in a black-box theater on the campus of UC San Diego documenting what was occurring there.

The object of their study was notoriously elusive: dance and the process of choreographic creation.

What happens, they wondered, when choreographer Wayne McGregor creates movement on (through? with?) the protean, hyper-articulated bodies of his Random Dance Company? How ...
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