Showing posts with label human development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human development. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Brain changes over our lifetime.

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This video from The Economist is one of the best I have seen for a popular audience. Hopefully the basic facts presented are slowly seeping ...
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Monday, February 19, 2024

Comparing how generative AI and living organisms generate meaning suggests future direction for AI development

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I want to pass on this open source opinion article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences by Karl Friston, Andy Clark, and other prominent figures...
Monday, February 05, 2024

Functional human brain tissue produced by layering different neuronal types with 3D bioprinting

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A very important advance by Su-Chun Zhang and collaborators at the University of Wisconsin that moves studies of nerve cells connecting in ...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Mental problems from early life adversity passed down three generations.

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Early life adversity can result in emotional and behavioral problems throughout adulthood in both humans and mice. Battaglia et al. show th...
Friday, August 04, 2023

18-month old humans discriminate moral violations from disobedient or unexpected events

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Fascinating studies from Kassecker et al. (open source) have used multiple methods (eye-tracking, observations of expressive behaviors) to ...
Monday, July 03, 2023

What Babies Know from zero to 1 year - core systems of knowledge

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The journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences has sent out to reviewers the précis of a book, "What Babies Know" by Elizabeth S. Spelk...
Friday, June 02, 2023

Gender inequality is associated with differences between the brains of men and women

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Sobering but not surprising analysis by Jugman et al. :   Significance Gender inequality is associated with worse mental health and academ...
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Friday, February 10, 2023

Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net.

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In an open source article in the January issue of the American Economic Review East et al. show that early life exposure to Medicaid enhanc...
Friday, December 09, 2022

How modern human brains are different from those of other hominids and chimps.

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Work pointed to in the previous post continues to add to the list of behaviors once presumed to be unique to humans that have now been foun...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning A.I. model

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A fascinating open source article from Piloto et al. in Nature Human Behaviour that addresses a major shortcoming of current artifician int...
Monday, October 31, 2022

Molecular markers of eventual chronic diseases of aging are higher in young adults of lower socioeconomic status.

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Sobering work from Shanahan et al. :   Significance The analysis of gene expression in peripheral whole blood of US young adults in their ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Third-party punishment by preverbal infants

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From Kanakogi et al. : Third-party punishment of antisocial others is unique to humans and seems to be universal across cultures. However, ...
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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Friday, June 03, 2022

Beginnings

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The title of this post is the title of one of the mini-essays in a piece on my website, written 20 years ago, called " MINDSTUFF: BONBO...
Monday, May 02, 2022

The human fear paradox: Affective origins of cooperative care

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On the same morning last week that I read a NYTimes essay by Thomas Edsall " The Politics of Fear Show No Sign of Abating " I rece...
Monday, March 28, 2022

Abnormal hemispheric interactions of Autism Spectrum Disorder present in 1st year of life.

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From Rolison et al. : Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by atypical connectivity lateralization of functional networks. Howev...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Cannabis use during pregnancy correlates with cortisol, anxiety, aggression, and hyperactivity in young children.

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Sobering results from Rompala et al. :  Significance Cannabis use is becoming more prevalent, including during developmentally sensitive p...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Volatile hexadecanal emitted by babies could make men more docile and women more aggressive

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Interesting observations from Mishor et al. : In terrestrial mammals, body volatiles can effectively trigger or block conspecific aggressio...
Friday, September 03, 2021

Babbling bats

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An interesting piece from Fernandez et al. : Babbling is a production milestone in infant speech development. Evidence for babbling in non...
Friday, July 30, 2021

How our brain cortex changes in the transition from childhood to adolescence.

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This open source article from Dong et al. has some excellent summary graphics:   Significance Here, we describe age-dependent shifts in ...