Sunday, April 30, 2006

A new brain module for understanding whole words

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While it has been known that rapidly comprehending whole words activates an area called the visual word form area (VWFA), the same area is a...
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

The Paomnnehal Pweor Of The Hmuan Mnid

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I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the l...
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Inhibiting Negative Emotions - Opps!, A simple story evaporates

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Numerous studies from Davidson's laboratory and others have shown that deliberately suppressing negative affect correlates with increase...
Monday, April 24, 2006

Brain's Reward Pathway Involved in Mood Disorders

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A recent Science article by Berton et. al. shows that long lasting fearful and withdrawal behaviors that are induced in mice by bullying a...
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Friday, April 21, 2006

The Self-Help Scam

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In the May 2006 issue of The Scientific American, Michael Shermer (publisher of Skeptic magazine ) argues that the Self-Help and Actualizat...
Sunday, April 09, 2006

Our inability to cope with what empirical data show us to be true about how our minds work...

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I get frustrated when I try to reconcile what I know from empirical data to be true about my self (see the "I-Illusion" essay on ...
Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Why do I feel an urge to write about how the mind works?

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Here are some sentences trying to put together one motivation for doing this website and this mindblog....and for working up a new web essay...
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Monday, April 03, 2006

Intellectual Ability and Brain Cortex Development in Children

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Shaw et. al. have recently published a fascinating study in Nature Magazine that shows that the trajectory of change in the thickness of th...

Power of Prayer? - apparently not.....

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Herbert Benson, author of "The Relaxation Response" and researcher into medical effects of relaxation and prayer has just publishe...
Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Seeing as a way of acting.

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I want to point out an accessible and fascinating web lecture with dynamic visual examples that outlines how we mentally construct our visua...
Friday, March 24, 2006

How to spot a baby conservative

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A friend sent me this link to an article in the Toronto Star ... KID POLITICS | Whiny children, claims a new study, tend to grow up rigid a...

Important models of self and sensing, and their reviewers

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You will find on the Psyche website two fascinating symposia. One deals with Thomas Metzinger's magisterial (and very long and dense) ...

How genes make up your mind

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You will find a nice introduction to this topic by Thomas Ramsoy on the Science and Consciousness Review website. He gives the necessar...
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Thursday, March 23, 2006

What is happening in your brain during a sensory illusion?

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This article by Blankenburg et al , "The Cutaneous Rabbit Illusion Affects Human Primary Sensory Cortex Somatotopically" demonstr...

What We Know May Not Change Us

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Here are a few quotations from a very sane and brief essay by Barry Smith , a philosopher at the University of London. "Human beings, ...
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Friday, March 17, 2006

Different Brain Systems Regulating Response to Risk and Uncertainty

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How much would you pay me for a deck of 100 cards, half blue and half red, if I told you that if you drew a card from the deck without looki...
Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Can physics save your soul?

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Dennis Overbye writes an excellent piece in the March 14 New York Times science section. It is as clear a debunking as I have read of the fe...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

An "Apostle's Creed" for the humanistic scientific materialist?

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The classical Christian apostle's creed, over 1600 years old and formulated soon after the writing of the New Testament, is a series of ...
Sunday, March 12, 2006

Recent Evolution of Humans

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The once-prevailing orthodoxy that human brain evolution stopped well before the rise of agriculture and cities is being rapidly swept away....
Friday, March 10, 2006

Evolutionary Spirituality - Evolutionary Christianity

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These sites ( thegreatstory.org , evolutionarychristianity.org ) show efforts to blend scientific evolutionary perspectives with convention...