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  • The basal ganglia are is a group of structures nestled under the cerebral cortex.  What exactly the basal ganglia do remains controversial and [...]

    Meet the basal ganglia. . . a substrate for motivational scaffolding

    January 16, 2012
  • Motivation is a complex concept with a long history in psychology and neuroscience.  I am going to sketch a notion of ‘motivational [...]

    Motivation and action: a chicken and egg problem?

    January 8, 2012
  • With games like Farmvile, Mafia Wars and Cityville, Zynga has helped expand the traditional game market and captured an absurd number of monthly [...]

    Is Fun really a good design principle?

    December 19, 2011
  • At the August Serious Games conference, educationally oriented games hogged the spotlight, whether teaching kids math, training sailors safety [...]

    Edugaming: knowledge transfer or knowledge generation?

    September 25, 2011

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