Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Enhance your working intelligence with simple exercises...

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Bakalar points to an interesting study by Jaeggi et al. showing that fluid intelligence (the kind of mental ability that allows us to sol...
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Fairness activates brain reward circuitry.

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Some interesting observations from Tabibnia et al. They: ...examined self-reported happiness and neural responses to fair and unfair offers...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

More on language and perception...

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Christine Kenneally writes a nice summary of current work on how language can nudge our perception. One interesting result demonstrates th...

The secret life of emotions.

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Another demonstration that we can be nudged by unconscious emotional stimuli - that both global and specific emotional responses can be indu...
Monday, April 28, 2008

For a calm start to your week... some Debussy

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Here is a second version (posted April 23, 2007) of the Debussy Reverie I initially put on YouTube Aug 29, 2006). I'm amazed that the...

A longevity-o-meter

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Check out the "Vitality Compass" at the Blue Zones Community website . The results of a 2-3 minute quiz are based on a complex, 10...
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If you haven't OD'ed on the internet already....

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Have a look at this site , which points to "20 websites that can change your life." (with 2 more added by feedback from viewers)...
Friday, April 25, 2008

Brain network disruption during aging.

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Most work on brain changes with aging has focused on individual regions, especially those in the frontal lobe, which may shrink or lose acti...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Brain imaging can predict the mistakes you are about to make.

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From Fountain's review of work by Eichele et al. : ...brain patterns start to change about 30 seconds before an error is committed... c...
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Positive psychology - a new organization

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Some of you might wish to check out the website of the new International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) . It's board includes Ma...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

An antidepressant enhances brain plasticity

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The title of the article by Vetencourt et al. is "The Antidepressant Fluoxetine Restores Plasticity in the Adult Visual Cortex. "...
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Space versus body based number representation

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Here is a fascinating bit of work from Brozzoli et al. showing how our touch perception can reveal the dominance of spatial over digital re...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Testosterone predicts financial profitability

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..at least on a stock trading floor in London. Dan Mitchell summarizes the work of Coats and Herbert, published in PNAS . Men with elevat...

Mine is longer than yours....

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The last game of the baby boomers: Who wins is not who has the most toys, but who lives longest. Check out this great New Yorker article ...

Stirring Dull roots with spring rain... at Twin Valley

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I'm back in Madison, WI., at the old stone schoolhouse on Twin Valley road.
Monday, April 21, 2008

A mouse model for PTSD suggests a therapy

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Pibiri et al. have performed experiments on mice that model the emotional hyper-reactivity (including enhanced contextual fear and impaired...
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8-month-old infants use intuitive statistics..

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Here is a fascinating result from Xu and Garcia , a demonstration that our brains begin to employ statistics at a very young age. Here are ...
Friday, April 18, 2008

Even brief stress can zap your brain...

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Well...to be sure, we're talking about rat brains, but the message is probably there for us as well. An interesting (and sobering) piece...

What do you see and not see?

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Here is an update of a well known demonstration that I have used in my lectures (and in my "I-Illusion" web-lecture at dericbow...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

Money makes us happy...

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In the Business section of the NY Times, Leonhardt points to a recent article by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers that disagrees with a ...