Tuesday, August 07, 2007

An awakening - recovery from coma by deep brain stimulation

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You may well have seen accounts on this work in the press, but I thought I would excerpt from a description by Shadlen and Kiani that discu...
Monday, August 06, 2007

Bonobo apes - human precursors as swingers?

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The July 30 issue of "The New Yorker" has an engaging article by Ian Parker on bonobo apes, meant to be much nicer than chimpanz...

Mind Control

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I thought readers might get a chuckle from what the press is telling us about neuro-technology.
Friday, August 03, 2007

Cognitive scientists learn from magicians...

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At the recent meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness that I attended in Las Vegas, one of most interesting ses...

Brain correlates of peer influence in adolescents

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Grosbras et al. have explored neural correlates of inter-individual differences in the probability of resisting peer influence in early ado...
Thursday, August 02, 2007

Release from helplessness and stress

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A possible therapy from over-expressing a gene? From 'research highlights' in a recent issue of Nature, edited: When mice experienc...

Effect of physical activity on cortical plasticity and brain function

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I've done a number of posts relevant to the aging brain ( effects of physical activity , etc., also see the blog category 'aging...
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Who's Minding the Mind?

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There is a great article with the title of this post by Benedict Carey in the July 31 NYTimes Science section (PDF here ). It deals with a...
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Brain damage and moral decision making

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Moll and Oliveira-Souza (PDF here ) do a nice review and discussion of experiments of a sort I have mentioned in an earlier post , that show...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Origins of social groups in infancy

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Kinzler et al. report interesting observations on how language influences the selection of social groups by human infants. What leads humans...

Interactions between native and second languages in the brain

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It is known from fMRI imaging studies that second languages can recruit brain areas not activated by the native language, and damage to thes...
Monday, July 30, 2007

What drives evolution - natural selection or mutations?

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Here is another perspective article, from Masotoshi Nei (PDE here ), on what may be a paradigm shift in evolutionary theory. Recent studie...

Neural correlates of understanding concrete versus abstract words

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Pexman et al. have used functional MRI to evaluate several different theories of semantic (meaning) representation that attempt to explain ...
Friday, July 27, 2007

The genuine problem of consciousness

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Jack, Robbins, and Roepstorff suggest ( PDF here ) that: ...popular conceptions of the problem of consciousness, epitomized by David Chalmer...
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Paradoxes Of Our Age

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I don't usually inflict homilies on my readers, but I pass on these brief lines found while cruising the web, attributed to the 14th Da...
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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Our baseline brain activity alters conscious perception

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Our perceptions of weak somatosensory (touching) stimuli can vary widely. Boly et al. (PDF here) ask whether variability in perception of ...

Obesity as contagion

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Here are some clips from a rather fascinating article by Kolata in the NYTimes. We know that moods are like viruses, contagious - one hap...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

fMRI of "Love"

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Wow, count on some scientists to take all the titilation out of it with a title like: "The Neural Basis of Love as a Subliminal Prime:...
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Coordinated eye movements during dialog.

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A commentary on an interesting article by Richardson et al. which illustrates yet again the social synchrony of our brains. See also this ...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Neuroeconomics - a site to browse

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I thought I would point you to the website of Read Montaque's Human Neuroimaging Laboratory at Baylor University. He is is guy whose w...