My Plastic Brain

by Caroline Williams

  6. Iaria G et al., (2003) “Cognitive Strategies Dependent on the Hippocampus and Caudate Nucleus in Human Navigation: Variability and Change with Practice,” Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 23, pp. 5945–52.

  7. Maguire E et al., (2000) “Navigation-Related Structural Change in the Hippocampi of Taxi Drivers,” PNAS.org, http://www.pnas.org/content/97/8/4398.full.pdf.

  8. Bannerman D et al., (2014) “Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity, Spatial Memory, and Anxiety,” Nature Reviews Neuroscience, vol. 15, pp. 181–92.

  9. Burles F et al., (2014) “Neuroticism and Self-evaluation Measures Are Related to the Ability to Form Cognitive Maps Critical for Spatial Orientation,” Behavioral Brain Research, vol. 271, pp. 154–59.

  10. Kühn S et al., (2014) “Playing Super Mario Induces Structural Brain Plasticity: Gray Matter Changes Resulting from Training with a Commercial Video Game,” Molecular Psychiatry, vol. 19, pp. 265–71.

  11. Hart V et al., (2013) “Dogs Are Sensitive to Small Variations of the Earth's Magnetic Field,” Frontiers in Zoology, vol. 10, p. 80.

  12. Epstein RA & Vass LK, (2013) “Neural Systems for Landmark-based Wayfinding in Humans,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, vol. 369.

  13. Try the tests of Giuseppe Iaria's group at www.gettinglost.ca.

  CHAPTER 5 – MIND-BENDING, TIME-BENDING

  1. Droit-Volet S & Wearden J, (2016) “Passage of Time Judgments Are Not Duration Judgments: Evidence from a Study Using Experience Sampling Methodology,” Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 7, p. 176.

  2. Fairhall SL et al., (2014) “Temporal Integration Windows for Naturalistic Visual Sequences,” PLoS One, vol. 9, p. e102248.

  3. Pomares FB et al., (2011) “How a Clock Can Change Your Pain?: The Illusion of Duration and Pain Perception,” Pain, vol. 152, pp. 230–34.

  4. Conti R, (2001) “Time Flies: Investigating the Connection between Intrinsic Motivation and Time Awareness,” Journal of Personality, vol. 69, pp. 1–26.

  CHAPTER 6 – NUMBER SENSE LOST

  1. OECD, (2013) Ready to Learn: Students’ Engagement, Drive and Self-Beliefs—Volume III, OECD Publishing, http://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/PISA2012-Vol3-Chap4.pdf.

  2. Dehaene S et al., (1999) “Sources of Mathematical Thinking: Behavioral and Brain-Imaging Evidence,” Science, vol. 284, pp. 970–74.

  3. Du Sautoy M, “Recon You Were Born without a Brain for Maths Highly Unlikely,” Guardian, 26 March 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/26/reckon-you-were-born-without-a-brain-for-maths-highly-unlikely.

  4. OECD, (2016) Equations and Inequalities: Making Mathematics Accessible to All, PISA, OECD Publishing.

  5. Sarkar A et al., (2014) “Cognitive Enhancement or Cognitive Cost: Trait-Specific Outcomes of Brain Stimulation in the Case of Mathematics Anxiety,” Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 34, pp. 16605–10.

  6. Rubinsten O et al., (2012) “Exploring the Relationship between Math Anxiety and Gender through Implicit Measurement,” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 6, p. 279.

  7. Looi CY et al., (2016) “Combining Brain Stimulation and Video Game to Promote Long-Term Transfer of Learning and Cognitive Enhancement,” Scientific Reports, vol. 6, article 22003.

  8. Popescu T et al., (2016) “Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation Mitigates Increased Difficulty in an Arithmetic Learning Task,” Neuropsychologia, vol. 81, pp. 255–64.

  9. Santarnecchi E et al., (2016) “Individual Differences and Specificity of Prefrontal Gamma Frequency-tACS on Fluid Intelligence Capabilities,” Cortex, vol. 75, pp. 33–43.

  10. Bechara A et al., (2000) “Emotion, Decision Making, and the Orbitofrontal Cortex,” Cerebral Cortex, vol. 10, pp. 295–307.

  11. Mackey AP et al., (2012) “Experience-Dependent Plasticity in White Matter Microstructure: Reasoning Training Alters Structural Connectivity,” Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, vol. 6, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnana.2012.00032.

  12. For the tests visit http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/tests/sequences.htm.

  CHAPTER 7 – MY BRAIN ON OVERRIDE

  1. Gu S et al., (2015) “Controllability of Structural Brain Networks,” Nature Communications, vol. 6, article 8414.

  2. “Why Being Bored Is Stimulating—and Useful, Too,” New Scientist, 26 August 2015.

  3. Hofmann SG et al., (2009) “The Upside of Being Socially Anxious: Psychopathic Attributes and Social Anxiety Are Negatively Associated,” Journal of Clinical and Social Psychology, vol. 28, pp. 714–27.

  4. Wager T & Atlas L, (2015) “The Neuroscience of Placebo Effects: Connecting Context, Learning and Health,” Nature Reviews Neuroscience, vol. 16, pp. 403–18.

  5. Boot WR et al., (2013) “The Pervasive Problem with Placebos in Psychology: Why Active Control Groups Are Not Sufficient to Rule Out Placebo Effects,” Perspectives on Psychological Science, vol. 8, pp. 445–54.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Wright K et al., (2002) “Relationship between Alertness, Performance, and Body Temperature in Humans,” American Journal of Physiology, vol. 283, pp. 1370–77.

  CHAPTER 8 – THE ROAD FROM HERE

  1. “Puzzle Box Orbit,” Puzzlebox, http://puzzlebox.io/orbit/.

  2. Arns M et al., (2014) “Evaluation of Neurofeedback in ADHD: The Long and Winding Road,” Biological Psychology, vol. 98, pp. 108–15.

  3. Reiter K et al., (2016) “Neurofeedback Treatment and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Effectiveness of Neurofeedback on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Optimal Choice of Protocol,” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, vol. 204, pp. 69–77.

  4. Enriquez-Geppert S et al., (2014) “Self-regulation of Frontal-midline Theta Facilitates Memory Updating and Mental Set Shifting,” Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. 8, p. 420.

  5. Gill Johnson, “Mindful Moments: Guided Mindfulness Meditations by Gill” (2015, as part of Mindfulness Meditation courses).

  6. Ros T et al., (2013) “Mind over Chatter: Plastic Up-Regulation of the fMRI Salience Network Directly after EEG Neurofeedback,” Neuroimage, vol. 65, pp. 324–35.

  7. Ruiz S et al., (2014) “Real-Time fMRI Brain Computer Interfaces: Self-Regulation of Single Brain Regions to Networks,” Biological Psychology, vol. 95, pp. 4–20.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Santarnecchi E et al., (2016) “Individual Differences and Specificity of Prefrontal Gamma Frequency-tACS on Fluid Intelligence Capabilities,” Cortex, vol. 75, pp. 33–43.

  10. “Transcutaneous Stimulation of the Cervical Branch of the Vagus Nerve for Cluster Headache and Migraine,” National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, March 2016, https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ipg552.

  11. Bach-Y-Rita P et al., (1969) “Vision Substitution by Tactile Image Projection,” Nature, vol. 221, pp. 963–64.

  12. Appleyard B, “The Interview: David Eagleman, Rock Star of Neuroscience,” Times, 27 March, 2016, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-interview-david-eagleman-rock-star-of-neuroscience-dt8zsqkcg.