Neuroscientist and Millionaire
Fri, 10 Nov 2006.
There’s a story in Seed Magazine about a Congitive Neuroscientist on Millionaire.
It deals with one of my favourite things to do: bringing up random pieces of trivia on command by tracing a path through your memories. Had I known that cognitive neuroscience could be this cool, I might have been a doctor instead.
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Basically the guy uses some techniques that might seem obvious but he knows the theory and rationale for these techniques intimately because he has lived and breathed them for a big part of his career. Things like talking out loud to try and jog his memory, recognising intuition and evaluating it and putting himself in the shoes of the question writers.
It’s a sort of geeky uplifting read once you glaze over some of the big science-y words that he uses.
