New preprint out, in press at American Psychologist, where I explore how malleable cognitive abilities really are, through the lens of popular brief interventions ร la mindset, stereotype threat, brain training, video gaming, and the like https://t.co/lQRfnxshE2 1/8
#Fasting isnโt just a trend. 'It taps into a biological system honed over millennia to help humans cope with scarcity,' writes @davidwmoreau, a cognitive neuroscientist at @AucklandUni. But how does skipping a meal (or three) affect our brains?https://t.co/DEDwdeLBEe
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๐งต1/๐ซ๐ฅ Does skipping a meal make you less sharp?
Our new meta-analysis in Psychological Bulletin reviewed 70+ studies and found no meaningful difference in thinking performance between fasted and satiated adults.
๐ [Link to paper: https://t.co/iAArxwkiB2]
Intermittent fasting can have health benefits, but does being hungry affect our cognitive abilities? Hereโs what all the evidence tells us. @davidwmoreau@AucklandUni https://t.co/XdlqjHhkuu
๐งต1/๐ซ๐ฅ Does skipping a meal make you less sharp?
Our new meta-analysis in Psychological Bulletin reviewed 70+ studies and found no meaningful difference in thinking performance between fasted and satiated adults.
๐ [Link to paper: https://t.co/iAArxwkiB2]
Claude Shannon did not *merely* invent relative entropy in the 1940sโ by 1951 he got all the way up to the idea of an autoregressive language model for English, and very nearly the encoderโdecoder structure.
@Seangray141@CoachOfTrees Thanks Sean, that means a lot! ๐ Definitely good times ...hopefully our paths cross again soon--perhaps at a @CardWrestling dual some day soon ๐