Neuromarketing - Where Brain Science and Marketing Meet

Neuroscientists are getting closer to understanding how we are surprised by unexpected events. Dharshan Kumaran and Eleanor Maguire at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London have found that the hippocampus "predicts" what will happen next by automatically recalling an entire sequence of events in response to a…

When we wrote Brain Branding post yesterday, most of the mainstream press hadn't picked up on the unassuming press release from the Radiological Society of…

How important is a strong brand image? A new study presented at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) shows that people presented with known brand…

Mere exposure to money imagery can make you more antisocial and more greedy, according to research.

Those who are fans of commercial technologies spinning off from military or government research will be happy to know that the field of neuroscience is getting…

A recurring theme in quite a few of our neuromarketing posts is the apparent contest between the amygdala, a brain structure long thought to be the seat of…

Most of us attempt to treat each other fairly, and react negatively if we feel we are treated unfairly. We may even react negatively if we see someone else…

A recurring theme in our neuromarketing posts is that our subconscious mind evaluates situations, makes decisions, and in general does its own thing without our…

Neuromarketing and Pricing. Why do people sometimes set prices that are too high, and then stubbornly stick with them despite evidence from the marketplace…

Neuroeconomics finished a respectable runner-up in the 2006 Word of the Year contest run by staffers at Webster's New World College Dictionary. Crackberry, a…