Thursday, August 31, 2006

Start your own religion....

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The invention of religions is a universal characteristic of human cultures. An article by Michael Luo in the Aug. 28 New York Times describ...
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

More on the impulsive teenage brain

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Nature has a feature by Kendall Powell on how teenage brain's work (see also my 7/07 post ). Abstracting from that review: An NIMH re...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

A warning...prenatal ultrasound waves disrupt embryonic brain cell migration in mice.

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Ang et al report : Neurons of the cerebral neocortex in mammals, including humans, are generated during fetal life in the proliferative zon...
Monday, August 28, 2006

Are you beautiful??

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The following is from a curious website "Beauty Check" at the Univ. of Regensberg, Germany. A summary of the research is given t...
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Friday, August 25, 2006

Modulation of competing memory systems by distraction

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Foerde et al. show that the relative contributions to a learning task of the declarative memory system of the medial temporal lobe (includ...
Thursday, August 24, 2006

The Buddha's Biology

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I want to mention a book by that I have found to be a useful summary and distillation of correspondences between classical Buddhist psycholo...
Wednesday, August 23, 2006

An RNA gene expressed during cortical development evolved rapidly in humans

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I can't say it any better than the abstract by Pollard et al. does: "The developmental and evolutionary mechanisms behind the emer...
Tuesday, August 22, 2006

No more new neurons for you: Stable neuron numbers from cradle to grave

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These are the titles of a review in PNAS and another in Science of a PNAS paper by Bhardwaj et al. that unequivocally settles a hotly con...
Monday, August 21, 2006

Twin Valley Classical Piano Music

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Totally unrelated to the subject area of this blog, but for those of you who know me I thought I would mentioned that I've started to pu...

Infant brains detect arithmetic errors

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A PNAS paper by Berger et al. demonstrates that as soon as 6-9 months after birth, human infants recognize incorrect solutions to simple a...
Friday, August 18, 2006

B. Alan Wallace's First Revolution in the Mind Sciences: Where's the beef?

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A recent mailing from meditationlist (meditationlist@lists.wisc.edu) gives a link to a video recording of a lecture recently given by B. A...
Thursday, August 17, 2006

What your facial muscles are revealing - facial profiling

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During hominid evolution an increasing number of complex facial muscles appeared to support an array of emotional expressions that are now u...
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

The Neural Basis of Embodyment

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Some edited clips from a recent J. Neuroscience article by Arzy et al. : Embodiment, the sense of being localized within one's physical...
Tuesday, August 15, 2006

This is scary....Americans at bottom of list in belief in evolution.

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From the Science Magazine Policy Forum note by Miller et al. "Over the past 20 years, the percentage of U.S. adults accepting the idea...
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Remembrance of mild moments past: add a little arousal

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A recent McGaugh review in Trends in Cognitive Science (Volume 10, Issue 8 , August 2006, Pages 345-347) discusses a PNAS paper by Anderso...

The Universe in a Neuron, and vice versa

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I wanted to pass on the graphics that appeared in this morning's science section of the New York Times. The images show the surprisin...
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Sunday, August 13, 2006

Complex Choices Better Made Unconsciously? A critical exchange...

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I thought it worth reproducing a current exchange in Science Magazine: In their Report "On making the right choice: The deliberation-w...
Friday, August 11, 2006

"Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind" and "The Wayward Mind"

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These are the titles of two books by British psychologist Guy Claxton ( see his website ) that I think have received less attention than th...
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Thursday, August 10, 2006

Do pheromone receptors in our nose pick up subliminal signals?

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Mouse urine contains compounds, termed pheromones, that can alter the social or sexual behaviour of other mice. They bind to receptors a st...
Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Another volume on flaws of the intelligent design argument, political setbacks to its advocates.

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The Princeton evolutionary biologist John Tyler Bonner writes a review in a recent issue of Nature of the Volume "Intelligent Thought...