Thursday, October 04, 2007

Stairways to the Mind

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Alwyn Scott passed away recently. "Stairways to the Mind" was one of his books, on levels of organization and emergent propertie...
Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Self-Referential Cognition in Autism

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Individuals with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) have profound impairments in the interpersonal social domain, but it is unclear if individ...

Brain correlates of different spatial learning strategies

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Each of us tends to emphasize one of two main strategies for spacial navigation. Learning the relationships between environmental landmarks...
Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Ape language slips reveal category knowledge storage.

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Michael Erard summarizes efforts (PDF here ) to analyze 'language' errors of apes for insight into the covert mental processes of a...
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Symbiosis of human brains and the web...

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George Johnson notes that the web has stripped the word algorithm (a recipe for solving problems step by step) of its innocence. The algori...
Monday, October 01, 2007

Moral Universals

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Nicholas Wade offers a summary (PDF here ) of some of the evidence that humans have an evolved moral intuition that appeared before the deve...
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Emotion and Disorders of Emotion

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You might want to check out this open access special focus issue of Nature Magazine on emotion and disorders of emotion. The starting edit...
Friday, September 28, 2007

Prospection: simulation of future unique to humans

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Gilbert and Wilson offer a concise review of our unique human ability to simulate the future, covering brain regions involved and stereotyp...

Evolving size of the social brain.

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Dunbar and Shultz ask why primates have such large brains, compared to their body mass, compared with other animals. Here is their abstra...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007

MindBlog's home this morning...

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The 1860 stone schoolhouse with its satellite dishes.

Nonhuman primates perceive human goals

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Hauser and collaborators do a clever experiment to demonstrate that several primates can make inferences about a human experimenters goal t...

A "language gene" in echolocating bats

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Slightly altered abstract from Li et al. : FOXP2 is a transcription factor implicated in the development and neural control of orofacial co...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Naturopathy wins over physical therapy advice?

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Chronic lower back pain is perhaps the most commonly reported workplace disability. Szczurko et al. conducted a randomized clinical trial o...
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Social cognitive skills unique to humans...

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From Tomasello's group in Leipzig comes an article (PDF here ), arguing for a distinctively human social cognitive intelligence rather ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The decline of memory

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J.L. Bader notes that Britney Spear's memory lapse while she was lip-synching during the recent MTV music video awards is a reflection ...
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Lucid Dreaming makes the Styles section...

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My, my, my..... how rapidly esoteric mind things become trendy. The lead article of the Sunday Styles section of the Sept 16 NY Times feat...
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Monday, September 24, 2007

Did Alex really "want" a cracker?

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New York Times science writer George Johnson, who is one very intelligent guy, has done a nice piece on the capabilities and history of Alex...
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This week's music - Debussy, Minuette from Suite Bergmanesque

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Recorded Sept. 13 on my Steinway B at Twin Valley.
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Let the kids decide.....

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Friday, September 21, 2007

Placebo effect on human opiod pain system

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A recent issue of Nature Reviews Neuroscience points to an interesting article by Wagner et al. (open access). The mere expectancy of pain ...