And it gets baked into our impressionable brains from the time we start watching Cookie Monster until the time we can no longer eat cookies without dentures.
The Game Developer Conference is full of fun, with hands-on demonstrations of unreleased games, talks from the developers, and day-long workshops designed to cram as much information into our game-soaked brains as possible.
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Should we also launch an investigation into the facial recognition that our brains do naturally?
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Our brains evolved through the millennia into incredible prediction machines, designed to help us make sense of our environment.
True, we have a lot more choices (often aided by technology) about precisely how we do these things in the modern world but we are still built by a hundred thousand years or so of our own species, tens of millions of years of mammalian evolution, into ending up with slightly different brains and slightly different interests to go along with our very different gonads.
We dug into the research to understand what goes on in our brains when we try to choose between Door No. 1 and Door No. 2--and why no matter what we choose, we're often dissatisfied.
Our brains are eager to incorporate new streams of information into our mental model of the world.
For Karmarkar, her work falls into the category of decision neuroscience, which is the study of what our brains do as we make choices.
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In moments of intense shock, our brains appear to shift from regular, day-to-day video mode into stop-motion-photography mode.
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Maybe our brains work as much to tune out reality as they work to tune us into it.
Looser also plans to study whether our brains get overloaded in the presence of too many faces, which may yield insight into the effects of a crowded office not to mention the morning commute.
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Well, if you buy the argument that the big revolutions are those that bring more and more brains into proximity of each other, then the next big change will be the merging of the internet with our brains.
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