• 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