Welcome to day 10 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 90 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!
Today’s project is inspired by a blog from the Science Blogs Channel re: a blog called The Frontal Cortex:
Calories are Rewarding
Category: Brain & Behavior
Posted on: October 4, 2008 9:52 AM, by Jonah Lehrer
Today I stumbled across Jonah Lehrer’s blog and appreciated his personally driven interest in understanding what pushes us to eat something even when we are sated. I am always looking for ways to help myself memorize and understand new information and find the best way to do this is to figure out a way to make the information a more elaborate sensory experience i.e. not just sight or sound, but sight + sound+ taste+ touch+etc. I like to figure out how to create these circumstances for myself and am even more interested in passing them on.
Today’s project is proof as to why I would be an amazing parent: a cheesecake boasting an image of the very brain region that tempts us into wanting it in the first place! The brilliant little cheesecake seen below sports a spicy brain of cloves with light brown cinnamon filling in the frontal cortex-the brain region involved in your experience of motivation, reward, attention, cognition and learning to name a few of its many roles. Could it be that this sweet treat could be a quick way to lure a snacker into memorizing valuable information? Can I take a class where my lessons are contained within a meal?
It was as tasty as it is clever if you must know. I doubt this nugget of information will be slipping out of my mind any time soon!
Total amount of time spent: 2hr
total cost: $4
amount of fun had: 9! Because I got to share the cake with my roommate and the dopamine flowed like wine.
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