Comments on: Expert Chess Players Win by Tapping Into Intuitive Brain Circuits

By: Eliza Strickland

Eliza Strickland — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:52:57 +0000

@ Jordan: Thanks for the catch, I changed the post to make it clear that the researchers used fMRI scans.

– Eliza, DISCOVER online news editor

By: Idlewilde

Idlewilde — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 07:50:14 +0000

Is this like when you wake up and you just know something bad is going to happen, and then it does?
It happens too often….

By: RM

RM — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 01:27:03 +0000

@Bruce…here my 2 cents:

intuition: Inborn survival mechanism in each human.

maybe best explained from a Low-latent-inhibition-persons angle:
Heightened concious-awareness through either stress-experiences (which lowers cortisone levels, thus person becomes more in a permanent state of ‘survival” which allows the brain to look for solutions and not shut-or filter out information but rather absorb anything and enabling one to associate all information) or through ‘defect’ of hormone levels from birth.

We all have intuition. just in different degrees depending entirely on the above and a persons capacity(intelligence and common sense) to associate information?

blah.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:58:04 +0000

Hmmmm….. OK…….. Who can define “intuition” scientifically? Not as some “magical” capacity.

By: RM

RM — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:58:23 +0000

Matt & DD : –> This message was typed yesterday!

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:47:14 +0000

Small correction, but you might want to specify that the technique used was fMRI, not just MRI.

By: DD

DD — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:17:21 +0000

Matt, I had a feeling you were going to say that.

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:20:24 +0000

You know, I had suspected this was true, but couldn’t prove it. ;)