Showing posts with label emotion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emotion. Show all posts
Friday, August 08, 2025

Face (e)motion and the third visual pathway.

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Important and ground breaking work from Yan et al. on our social brain pathways. For an excellent summary of this work, with useful graphi...
Friday, July 25, 2025

The optimistic brain - fMRI reveals shared thought patterns.

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From Yanagisawa et al .:   Significance Optimism, defined as maintaining positive expectations for the future, is a crucial psychological ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Losing Loneliness

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Paul Bloom has written an insightful article on the use of A.I. ‘companions’ to solve the problem of loneliness.  I pass on a few clips: Fo...
Friday, July 11, 2025

AI sees you in ways you can’t see yourself.

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My last 7/9/25 post offered a summary of 9 recent articles in the WSJ and NYT. I did not incude in this group one of the NYT articles with t...
Wednesday, July 02, 2025

Why is jogging an antidepressant?

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I pass on this brief description by Sarah Lemprière of work by Xia et al :  Physical exercise can reduce depressive symptoms, and sever...
Thursday, May 08, 2025

The vocabulary, semantics, and syntax of prosody

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Matalon et al. (open source) offer a fascinating study illustrating the linguistic structuring of prosody -the communication of meaning thr...
Friday, May 24, 2024

Think AI Can Perceive Emotion? Think Again.

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Numerous MindBlog posts have presented the work and writing of Elizabeth Feldman Barrett (enter Barrett in the search box in the right colum...
Friday, May 17, 2024

Evolutionarily conserved neural responses to affective touch transcend consciousness and change with age

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Interesting work from Charbonneau et al. in macaque monkeys on the affective (gentle, pleasant) touch pathways that in humans use a differe...
Monday, May 15, 2023

People who talk too much

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I host a monthly discussion group in Austin TX, The Austin Rainbow Forum, that meets at 2 pm on the first Sunday of every month to consider ...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

New Perspectives on how our Minds Work

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I want to pass on to MindBlog readers this link to a lecture I gave this past Friday (10/21/22) to the Univ. of Texas OLLI (Osher Lifelong ...
Monday, October 03, 2022

Triggers for mother love

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A fascinating open source article from Margaret Livingstone carrying forward the famous experiments by Harry Harlow:   Significance Harr...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Neural synchronization predicts marital satisfaction

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From Li et al. :   Significance Humans establish intimate social and personal relationships with their partners, which enable them to surv...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Emotional contagion and prosocial behavior

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Keysers et al. do an open source review of studies on emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents, whose brain regions necessary ...
Monday, July 25, 2022

Efficiently irrational: deciphering the riddle of human choice

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Highlights of an open source article from Paul Glimcher : A central question for decision-making scholars is: why are humans and animal...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience - a fascinating journal, many open source articles

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Rather than charging in to do separate posts on several of the following fascinating articles, I pass them on for readers to click and choos...
Wednesday, June 08, 2022

Stories move the heart - literally

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Continuing my thread of heart activity realted posts ( here , and here ), I'll mention that I've enjoyed reading this open access PN...
Monday, May 30, 2022

Brain-Heart interplay in emotional arousal - resolving a hundred year old debate

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Candia-Rivera et al. do a fascinating piece of work that answers some long-standing issues in the century old debate on the role of the aut...
Friday, February 11, 2022

A special issue of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience on tDCS

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I want to point to this special open source issue of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Paulo Boggio provides an interesting hist...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Using big data to track major shifts in human cognition

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I want to pass on the first few paragraphs of a fascinating commentary by Simon DeDao on an article by Scheffer et al. that was the subject...
Monday, January 17, 2022

Different circuits in the brain for reward seeking and novelty seeking.

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Work by Ogasawara et al. is noted by Peter Stern . Novelty seeking is a key feature of intelligent behavior and adaptive cognition. Howev...