Friday, May 30, 2008

Models of cognitive control in prefrontal cortex.

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In the May issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences David Badre reviews different models of the cognitive controls in our prefrontal cortex th...
Thursday, May 29, 2008

Music becoming a monoculture...

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David Huron writes an interesting essay in the May 22 issue of Nature noting the fact that as millions of musical recordings have become ava...

What and Where pathways in auditory brain

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The visual cortex has parallel processing streams that deal mainly either with the location of an image (the dorsal stream) or its identity...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Meeting George Bush versus Meeting Cinderella

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The rest of the title of this article by von Cramon and Schubotz is "The Neural Response When Telling Apart What is Real from What is ...

Older adults have a broader attention span

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An article by Reistad-Long describes studies suggesting that a broader attention span may enable older adults to ultimately know more about...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Lotus therapy

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Yet another article on benefits of mindfulness meditation in this morning's NYTimes science section.
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Blogging as self-medication

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Maybe I've found one of the reasons I do this blog (other than to keep me off the streets): An article by Jessica Wapner in the June i...
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Another reason for being gay?

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Ever alert for the latest speculation on a possible biological basis for why I might be gay, I come across this little gem on fruitflies : ...
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Monday, May 26, 2008

A Chopin Nocturne...

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Chopin Nocturne Op. 27 No. 2, recorded on my Steinway B at Twin Valley.
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For your memorial day holiday hangover

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Check out this article by Joan Acocella in the May 26 issue of The New Yorker, "A Few Too Many - Is there any hope for the hung over?...
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Tones of Ancient Greece

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I found this brief commentary from "Random Samples" in the May 16 issue of Science so interesting that I wanted to pass it on in i...

Most popular consciousness papers

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Here is the list of the five most downloaded papers from the ASSC archive for April, 2008: 1. Destrebecqz, Arnaud and Peigneux, Philippe (20...
Friday, May 23, 2008

Are you a morning person? - mood and body clocks

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From from PJH at editor's choice, Science Magazine. Some neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, have been implicated in adjusting a person...
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Tranquility...

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A MindBlog reader suggests that I pass along this link on "50+ Simple 30-Second Ways to Bring Tranquility To Your Life"... Hmmmm...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

Brain imaging of belief, disbelief, and uncertainty

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A fascinating fMRI study by Sam Harris and colleagues has used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the brains of 14 adult...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

MindBlog becomes a drop-out student at a brain enhancement site

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When the folks at happy-neuron.com offered me a free log in to check out their brain enhancement/preservation exercises I said "Sure, ...

An aging guide...

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Check out the guided tour provided by the NY Times Well .
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

MRI - the new phrenology

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Having just done a posting on MRI, I thought it appropriate to point to a discussion by Michael Shermer in his "Skeptic" column i...
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The MRI of morality?

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Greg Miller reviews research on the nature of human morality which continues to probe the debate between the views of of David Hume - that ...
Monday, May 19, 2008

Some Chopin to start the week...

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I'm warming up to do some recordings this spring and summer.... this is Chopin's Nocture Op. 9 No. 1