From the NYT Magazine "Year in Ideas," an entry on "Neurorealism":
A paper published online in September by the journal Cognition shows that assertions about psychology — even implausible ones like “watching television improved math skills” — seem much more believable to laypeople when accompanied by images from brain scans.
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Also, this Ideas issue is the most bloggable thing to hit the internet since Sonic the Hedgehog’s abstinence video. Stay tuned.
