Monday, March 31, 2008

Regulating the brain circuits of compassion

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Here is yet more compelling evidence that you are what you spend your time imagining. In a recent study in PLoS ONE , Lutz, Davidson and ...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

Gay Scientists Isolate Christianity Gene

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Friday, March 28, 2008

Rodent trained to be Las Vegas croupier

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Atshushi Iriki's group in Tokyo has trained degus (intelligent rodents native to the highlands of Chile) to provide the first example (...

The mind's eye in number space

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From Loetscher et al. , an interesting bit on how our subtle muscle movements correlate with counting operations - numbers and space: Human ...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

A hierarchy of temporal receptive windows in our brains

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Here is the abstract from a fascinating study by Hasson et al. on how our visual system assembles time narratives - as during watching a mo...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Anxiety: fear in seach of a cause

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The title of this post is a pithy definition that Patricia Pearson gives in her recent book, "A BRIEF HISTORY OF ANXIETY... Yours and M...
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Depressing news: antidepressants don't work?

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In the April issue of Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Claudia Wiedemann reviews reactions to a meta analysis by Kirsch et al. of data on antid...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Differing perception of facial expressions in the East and West

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Nagourney describes a study in the March issue of The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology reinforcing previous work showing that ...

Heritability of cooperative behavior

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A study of the behaviors of monozygotic versis dizygotic twins (i.e. 'identical' vs. 'non-identical' twins) in a classical ...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Neuroimaging shows use of self thoughts to infer others' mental states

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Jenkins et al. offer a fascinating study of how we infer the mental states of others (mentalize), making use of a phenomenon (repetition s...
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Emonomics

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Berreby offers an entertaining review of Ariely's new book "Predictably Irrational," which deals with behavioral economics - ...

A bit of piano...

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I thought I would punctuate the stream of 'serious' posts with a paste from my piano recordings, this being "Three Fantastic Da...

Most popular consciousness articles for February

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From the ASSC downloads archive: 1. Koriat, A. (2006) Metacognition and Consciousness. In: Cambridge handbook of consciousness. Cambridge Un...
Friday, March 21, 2008

The maturing architecture of the brain's default network

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From Raichle and others in the St. Louis group, an interesting story on the development of the brain network we most likely use for introsp...

Analogies between cultural and genetic evolution - the case of polynesian canoes

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Rogers and Ehrlich, in an open access article , have made an important contribution to understanding cultural evolution. Here are some clip...
Thursday, March 20, 2008

Amazing Images...

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From the Wellcome Image Awards Gallery :

A new brain book...

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The new book " Brain Rules " looks interesting, it appears to be an enlightened self-help manual based on basics of brain function.

Our motor adaptation as a process of reoptimization.

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Because I'm a classical pianist and am continually trying to optimize the motor performance involved, I'm fascinated by articles lik...

Relativity of space, time and magnitude representation in our brains

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Here are some simple and elegant experiments that shows how relativistic our time sense is. Our two cerebral hemispheres expand (right he...

A fiery piano performance...

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This makes me cringe..... On March 8, pianist Yosuke Yamashita donned a fireproof suit and played a burning piano on a beach in Ishikawa pre...