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Neural Speech – Neural Nets Will Soon Be Able To Do All The Talking For You

April 29, 2019May 2, 2019 By Dr Jack

Once in a blue moon a neuroscience story will totally blow me away. A team of scientists just did it again by generating intelligible speech from a person’s brainwaves…

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Poverty of Empathy and Smartphone Overuse

February 27, 2019May 21, 2019 By Dr Jack

People who overuse their smartphones may gradually find themselves behaving in an increasingly anti-social manner compared to those who use them in moderation. It could even trigger a slide back into the incivility of previous ages.

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Tech Companies that Bolster (or Harm) Feelings of Social Connectedness

September 30, 2018October 4, 2018 By Dr Jack

We should start to label tech companies according to their overall impact on the depth of people’s sense of being socially embedded in a supportive community

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Online Gaming Bilingual Boost

June 22, 2018June 25, 2018 By Dr Jack

When MMORPG gamers sit in front of their computers – each in a different country, wearing headphones / mics so they can coordinate their battles with dragons, dwarves and elves – they may end up improving their command of a non-native language.

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Virtual Reality Arcade coming soon…

April 9, 2017June 12, 2017 By Dr Jack

In June 2013 I asked a professor of virtual reality environments whether VR might lead to a comeback for the arcade. 4 years later Other Worlds arrives in London…

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Adverts Encouraging Use of Tech to Subdue Kids Could End In Tears

August 31, 2015September 18, 2015 By Dr Jack

Advertisers are encouraging parents to use technology to mesmerize their kids into silence in a way that may well end up hindering their neurodevelopment.

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New Hope for Paralysis Recovery by Dr Jack Lewis

November 30, 2014September 18, 2015 By Dr Jack

Over 2014 we’ve seen some huge leaps in scientific advancement that are enabling previously wheelchair-bound people to stand up and take some small but important steps forward under their own volition.

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Game Over for Reality? by Dr Jack Lewis

June 24, 2014April 9, 2017 By Dr Jack

Immersive virtual reality gaming is good, frighteningly good. So good that it makes me worry that people will increasingly choose the excitement of virtual worlds over the relative mundanity of the real one.

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How Virtual Environments Shape Your Brain by Dr Jack Lewis

September 24, 2013September 18, 2015 By Dr Jack

My message is simple. Stop and think about your use of technology for a moment to consider whether the likely changes to your brain will serve you and those around you better or worse after the re-modelling has taken place.

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Brain Implant Enabling Paralysed Woman to Operate Robot Arm

May 21, 2012September 18, 2015 By Dr Jack

The first time I came across this kind of technology was at the Society for Neuroscience annual conference in 2003. But back then

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