Friday, February 24, 2006

What makes young kids different from young chimps?

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They are LESS critical in imitating the actions of others. Horner and Whiten trained young chimps to remove food from a black box (open the...
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Delete one gene, and turn from timid to daring, if you are a mouse

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Can efforts to dial down overly fearful humans be far behind? Shumyatsky et al. show that deleting a gene that is expressed in the amygdala...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Complex decisions solved better by unconsious than by conscious thought

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Ap Dijksterhuis et al. , Univ. of Amsterdam, had a group of students read a comparison of many different aspects of four different cars. Th...
Sunday, February 19, 2006

Trashing the God Genome

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The following paragraphs are quotes from the harsh review of Dennett's new book (Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon) ...
Friday, February 17, 2006

Mindful awareness and my frontal lobes?

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A note by Sara Lazar et al. in Neuroreport proposes that mindful awareness meditation causes increases in the thickness of areas of the fro...
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So what use is knowing all this brain stuff??

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Sure, the material I am posting in this blog is fascinating in its own right. Yet, I think all of us studying how the brain works have eith...

Watching emotions interfere with goal attainment

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Dorsolateral Prefrontal and lateral parietal cortex regions involved in working memory needed for task perseverance are de-activated by e...

Detecting lying, and critical comments on the brain imaging enterprise

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Lying can be detected by various imaging techniques as well as by trained human observers. There is an interesting review article in the Fe...

Imaging the person in the brain....

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A NYTimes article by Benedict Carey notes that the brain has become a pop star. Several major articles are appearing every month using brai...
Monday, February 13, 2006

The Trust and Caring Hormones

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Oxytocin and vasopressin, made in the pituitary gland, turn out to be multi-purpose hormones, not just for giving milk and water balance. T...
Saturday, February 11, 2006

Language influences perception in left, but not right, hemisphere

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See " Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left. " (note: right visual field is processed by left,...
Friday, February 10, 2006

Replace religions with contemplative science?

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From the Mind and Life Institute web site: Huffington Post.com recently posted an article about a silent meditation retreat recently held ...
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Thursday, February 09, 2006

Mirror or Empathy Neurons, the DNA of psychology?

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Our brains have multiple mirror neuron systems that are active not only during our own actions and emotions, but also when we are observing...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Dangerous Ideas.......

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Edge.org is a website sponsored by the "Reality Club" (i.e. John Brockman, literary agent/impressario/socialite). Brockman has a...
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