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...gave subjects $20 each and, while they were in the fMRI machine, presented them with pictures of 80 products, each followed by a price. Subjects then had the option of purchasing each item on display. As they viewed products they preferred, Knutson saw activity in the nucleus accumbens, a region of the brain involved in anticipating pleasant outcomes. If, on the other hand, the subjects thought the price of these items was too high, there was increased activity in the insula-- an area involved in anticipating pain. "The idea is that if you can look into people's brains right...
Modern scientists have done a far better job of things, dividing the brain into multiple, discrete regions with satisfyingly technical names--hypothalamus, caudate nucleus, neocortex--and mapping particular functions to particular sites. Here lives abstract thought; here lives creativity; here is emotion; here is speech. But what about here and here and here and here--all the countless places and ways the brain continues to baffle us? Here still be dragons...
Justin Conway, Noah “Noble” Savage, and Luke Owings form a solid, veteran nucleus, but the Tigers are woefully undersized (Conway plays center at six-foot-four) and will suffer from the graduation of point guard Scott Greenman...
...failure, attempting to find success by catering to the dominant Ivy trend. He recruited four guards, all 6’4 or shorter, and just two frontcourt players, neither taller than 6’7, swinging the balance back to the perimeter for the foreseeable future. The nucleus of this year’s team has also been transferred from the frontcourt to the backcourt, as Harvard will live and die with the tandem of sophomore point guard Drew Housman, who averaged 10 points and three assists in a standout freshman year, and captain Goffredo, the Crimson?...
...well as quality outside shooting—could make Harvard the most formidable team in the Ivy League. This year’s Harvard squad also inherits an unpredictable, unknown Ivy League recovering from the graduation of many of its marquee players. Dartmouth’s nucleus that brought the squad back-to-back Ivy titles graduated in 2006, and Brown lost 2005-2006 Ivy Player of the Year Sarah Hayes. Princeton, which lost in the Ivy playoff game to Dartmouth last season, graduated arguably the league’s best low-post player in Becky Brown.The Crimson lost...