Several years ago, therefore, Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist who now works at Oxford University, concluded that the cognitive power of the brain limits the size of the social network that an individual of any given species can develop.

ECONOMIST: Even online, the neocortex is the limit

Instead, she suspects that those lacking in power suffered adverse cognitive effects from that very lack, and thus had difficulty maintaining their focus on the tasks.

ECONOMIST: Cognitive disenhancement

Leape did turn up extensive safety literature from cognitive psychology, aviation and nuclear power, gleaning lessons--reducing reliance on memory, standardizing processes, promoting teamwork--that might apply well to medicine.

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These people are not only rich but also exceptionally clever, because America has become expert at sending its brightest to the same elite universities, where they intermarry and confer on their offspring not just wealth but also a cognitive advantage that gives this class terrific staying power.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

Although he accepts some neuroscientists (and the journalists who report their work), may have been guilty of overestimating the power of their findings, the Director of UCL's Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience Professor geraint Rees believes Ray Tallis is also guilty of exaggerating for effect.

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