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I believe a method that approaches the Kyoto Protocol (and other international agreements)  as an ‘object of research’(.doc) (Fairclough, 2000) through the application of neuroscientific understanding would show that such documents of law, the environment, politics and of the international, can be read as indicators of the individual and collective human executive functions of the [...]

Here’s an interesting one: quoting from an article in Science from October 2007 that I just got round to reading:
neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that the striatum tracks a social partner’s decision to reciprocate or not reciprocate cooperation, appearing to encode abstract rewards such as the positive feeling garnered by mutual cooperation. (600)

The striatum provides a [...]

I’ve seen stories on neuromarketing, and it makes sense that the advertisers would cotton on to the impact of neuroscience on their ability to change people’s behaviour. Here’s a video of Richard Restak talking on the subject.

Being born quite a way before 1993, I don’t qualify as part of the Google generation: made up of Western-born individuals who have grown up with the internet, ‘a cohort of young people with little or no recollection of life before the web’. I can remember life before the web. It wasn’t bad. Travelling [...]