Many students used D.H. E&S library single study rooms as discussion rooms. They chit-chat and make noise in the rooms and it is really frustrating when others are trying to concentrate. Please strictly restrict only one student per room and clearly stated that the 3rd floor is for silence study instead of discussion. More notices on walls might work in reminding students to be silent. Thank you.

Predictions in the Brain
Using Our Past to Generate a Future
Edited by Moshe Bar
$99.95
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Psychology/CognitivePsycho...

From the Nature review:
Memory is the most intimate of abstractions. The matter of how memories are made and stored is a research goal that needs no selling, perhaps driven by a fear of memory loss and our dread of personal obliteration. Yet one question has been neglected: why does memory exist?

Possible answers are explored in Predictions in the Brain, a collection of 25 rigorous, data-laden cognitive-science reviews edited by neuroscientist Moshe Bar. He and his co-authors propose that prediction is a unifying principle of brain function, and that predictions are created from memories. As contributor Yadin Dudai writes: “Memories are made mostly for the sake of present and future.” Memory systems do not store past experiences, but recycle their components into the imagined future.

In throwing evolutionary light on a fundamental process, this idea has legs. As survival advantages go, our ability to envision and plan a nuanced future is a masterpiece — arguably, the root of our success as a species. If memories are used to generate predictions that drive our actions, then the mechanisms of prediction are as worthy of study as those of memory. The growing body of experimental data reviewed in this volume supports a shift in memory research from storage to prediction.