Daunted by Spring Cleaning? Randall O'Reilly Says Blame Your Brain

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 06:00:00 +0000

Daunted by Spring Cleaning? Randall O'Reilly Says Blame Your Brain Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 03/28/2018 - 00:00

Dr. Randall O'Reilly, ICS Fellow blames the brain for why it’s so difficult to tackle a big project like spring cleaning, blame your brain. Randall O’Reilly is a professor of psychology and neuroscience and director of the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at CU Boulder and Fellow with the Institute of Cognitive Science.

“The brain is wired to be very cautious and conservative in starting big projects, because once you do start, it takes over your brain,” he said. “The brain, researchers think, is wired to track progress towards whatever it is you’ve decided to do, like spring cleaning, which is hard work. You have to make a lot of difficult decisions and the outcome is uncertain. Your brain recognizes that and says, ‘Maybe I won’t start on that project after all.’ It’s an adaptive property of the brain.”

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ICS Fellow Randall O'Reilly Now Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 18:16:57 +0000

ICS Fellow Randall O'Reilly Now Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 12/05/2016 - 11:16

Congratulations to ICS Fellow Dr. Randy O'Reilly for being elected a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists! Read more about the society at: http://www.sepsych.org/

Congratulations to ICS Fellow Dr. Randy O'Reilly for being elected a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists!

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