Monday, July 31, 2006

Living longer and better.....

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The July 30 Sunday New York Times has a fascinating article comparing longevity and health in men over the period 1850-2000 (data taken mai...
Friday, July 28, 2006

Cracking the Language Code...

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An interesting article by McNealy et al. in J. Neuroscience begins to look at the neural basis of detecting word boundaries in continuous s...
Thursday, July 27, 2006

Face Blindness - hereditary prosopagnosia

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One of the most striking consequences of damage to the medial occipitotemporal region of the brain can be the loss of the ability to recogni...
Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Nice and Nasty Rats.... Religion and Science

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Today's science section of the New York Times has several articles worth noting. Some remarkable experiments were started in the former...

Remembering past rewards - anterior cingulate cortex needed

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Here is the abstract from an interesting paper in Nature Neuroscience by Kennerley et al. "Learning the value of options in an uncerta...
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Monday, July 24, 2006

The Middle East - contribution of basic cognitive errors to cycles of retribution.

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Daniel Gilbert, whose book (Stumbling on Happiness) I abstracted in a series of posts on 6/29/06, has a fascinating Op-Ed piece in today...
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Friday, July 21, 2006

A ‘Senior Moment’ or a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?

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This is the title of an article by Benedict Carey in last Tuesday's NYTimes science section (7/18/06) pointing to work reported in the c...
Thursday, July 20, 2006

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Chimp playing pacman This video is spreading like a virus, I'm wanting to pass it on, having seen it on the Cognitive Daily Blog.

The Locus Ceruleus Is Involved in the Retrieval of Emotional Memories in Humans

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Emotional events are usually remembered better than neutral ones, and the amygdala is involved in this enhancement. The level of the amyg...
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, how Ritalin might be working.

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Ruth Williams, in Nature Reviews Neuroscience , points out an article by Drouin et al in The Journal of Neurophysiology that suggests a pot...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Free Will, Free Won't, or Neither? A refinement of Libet's work on the conscious control of spontaneous actions.

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In a famous paper published in 1983, Libet et al. showed that the recordable cerebral activity (readiness-potential) that precedes a freely...
Monday, July 17, 2006

The Dali Lama and evolutionary science. He’s an awesome guy, but……

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The Dali Lama deserves great credit for his efforts to integrate the insights of modern science and spiritual traditions, and he deals with ...
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Saturday, July 15, 2006

Genes, cognition, and dyslexia.

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Learning to read and write places unusual demands on the brain: explicit awareness of the structural elements of language and their relatio...
Friday, July 14, 2006

Future and previous goals represented by different neuronal population the prefrontal cortex.

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Genovesio et al have measured the activities of a large number of individual prefrontal cortical neurons as monkeys selected a future goal ...
Thursday, July 13, 2006

Stoking the Voters' Passions

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This is the title of a review in Science Magazine by James Druckman of Ted Brader's recent book "Campaigning for Hearts and Minds ...
Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Fraternal birth-order effect on male sexual orientation.

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For each additional brother that precedes him, a boy's chance of growing up to be gay increases by a third. A fascinating article and c...

Brain-machine interfaces

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Check out this special WEB FOCUS presented by Nature Magazine. A new study in Nature demonstrates a human with spinal injury manipulating ...
Tuesday, July 11, 2006

The Deepest Cut - removing one cerebral hemisphere

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The right and left hemispheres of our brains have a long list of distinctive specializations, one example being the centering of linguistic...

Mice feel each others' pain.

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Recent experiments by Langford et al provide further evidence that simple mammals show 'emotional contagion', a simple precursor t...
Monday, July 10, 2006

Lapses in Attention.....

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We frequently make errors during lapses in our attention, and Weissman et al have now looked at what is happening in the brain during this ...
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