Showing posts with label emotions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emotions. Show all posts
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...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

The Happiness Gap Between Left and Right

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 I want to pass on a few clips from a recent Thomas Edsall essay , followed by a condensed version of the longer piece provided by Chat GPT ...
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 ...
Wednesday, April 05, 2023

The fundamentals of empathy

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Akinrinade et al. show that the neuropeptide oxytocin is responsible for emotional fear contagion, and involves the same regions of the brai...
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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...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Testerone production in adult men is regulated by an adolescent period sensitive to family experiences.

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 From Gettler et al. : Significance Testosterone influences how animals devote energy and time toward reproduction, including opposing de...
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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...
Monday, March 14, 2022

Addicted to dreaming.

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Dopamine (DA) is usually associated with pleasure and addiction. Now Hasegawa et al. show that release of DA in the basolateral amygdala (B...
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...
Wednesday, December 01, 2021

The Science of Hugs?

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Schultz describes an entertaining bit of work pursuing the obvious done by Düren et.al. Guys hugging each other use their arms differently...
Friday, November 05, 2021

Variability, not stereotypical expressions, in facial portraying of emotional states.

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Barrett and collaborators use a novel method to offer more evidence against reliable mapping between certain emotional states and facial mu...
Friday, October 08, 2021

Reconsolidation of a reactivated memory can be altered by stress hormone levels.

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Stern's summary in Science Magazine of work by Antypa et al. : Reactivation of a memory can make it malleable to subsequent change dur...
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