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Fabian Stelzer Uses Neuroscience To Make Your Website Stickier

5 seconds. That's about how long website creators have to capture a visitor's attention and convince them to stick around. Fabian Stelzer used his training in neuroscience to help create a tool for web designers that analyzes just how sticky their page is likely to be.READ»

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NeuroFocus Uses Neuromarketing To Hack Your Brain

Intel, PayPal, Pepsico, Google, HP, Citi, and Microsoft are spending millions to plumb your mind. Here's how it's done.READ»

Why Neuromusic Will Never Be As Catchy As Katy Perry

Neuroscientists have found how brainwaves can predict hit songs, but listen (below) to actual music made from neuro feedback, and you'll understand why experts think the pop charts will remain mindless for decades to come. READ»

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Campbell's Soup Neuromarketing Redux: There's Chunks of Real Science in That Recipe

About a week ago, the Campbell Soup Company publicized a bold redesign of its iconic label with the assistance of neuromarketing. Pundits promptly predicted brand suicide, decrying the company for using pseudo-science. Is it true ...READ»

Science: Skilled Gamers Have Bigger Brains (but Smaller Necks, Bodies?)

For the first time, researchers have shown brains-size linked to a real-world skill.READ»

Hard Work's Overrated, Maybe Detrimental.

A co-founder of Flickr argues that hard work often doesn't amount to much--and neuroscience offers some backing for the claim.READ»

Changing the Definition of Change Management

The current definitions of change management are hopelessly ’soft’ and poorly defined. READ»

Our Brains Versus Fast Food? No Contest

Do we crave flavor, or just calories? A new study reveals that our brain chemistry may be to blame for our love affair with food.READ»

Philips Unveils an "Emotion Shirt" for Video Gamers

At the 2009 World Haptics Conference last month, Philips demonstrated an intriguing project: An "Emotion Shirt" that simulates the body's emotional responses. As Paul Lemmens, a cognitive scientist in Philips's User ...READ»

Japanese Scientists Show Thoughts, Dreams On-Screen

It sounds like the stuff of pure science-fiction, but it's not: Japanese scientists have demonstrated a system that can display actual images of what you're thinking about on a screen.ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have ...READ»

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What BlackBerry Addiction says About Obama's Brain

Giving up the CrackBerry will make the president-elect more productive, but neuroscientist Sam Wang says that he shouldn’t give it up completely. Here’s why…READ»

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The Best Business Books of 2008

These books run the gamut of what Fast Company is about--innovation, creativity, design, sustainability, technology, marketing, and global business. Their central theme: finding and sharing new ideas is essential to success.READ»

Neuroscience Sheds New Light on Creativity

What neuroscience reveals about how to come up with new ideas.READ»