Monday, June 30, 2008

MindBlog on the road

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This week, I'm starting a seven day vacation in Toronto with my partner Len. It is our 19th anniversary. The mindblog posts that appe...

Young and old brains differ in encoding positive information

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A number of studies have revealed a "positivity shift" with aging; whereas young adults are more likely to remember negative infor...
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Friday, June 27, 2008

ScienceHack - monkey brain moving robotic arm

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I stumbled across this site with interesting science videos from a number of areas (biology, psychology, robotics, etc.). They are mainly ...

Best visual illusion of the year

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Check out the Best Visual Illusion of the Year contest.....
Thursday, June 26, 2008

The brain's default network - a review

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Buckner et al. offer a review of work what our brains are doing when we are not focused on the external environment. This is an open acce...
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More from the great curmudgeon...

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To follow up my June 15 post, here is an Esquire Magazine "What I have learned" offering from Gore Vidal that my colleague Jim S...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

A memorial for our president...

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I simply can't resist passing this on - an article on a proposal, naturally hatched in a bar, to change the name of a prize-winning wat...

Retaliation for unfairness - depends on serotonin

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Nature highlights an article by Crockett et al. showing that serotonin modulates our reaction to unfairness. The experimenters: ...tempor...

Trust in oxytocin.

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I pass on a brief news review by Leonie Welberg from Nature Neuroscience: The neuropeptide oxytocin is released during childbirth, suckling...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Are the religionists lightening up?

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The graphic is from Banerjee's NYTimes summary of the Pew Forum report . The good news is that while the vast majority of Americans (...

Can 'emergence' put spirituality back into nature?

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The anti-reductionist view of emergence undergoes cycles of popularity as a philosophical topic. Valerie Hardcastle gives a rather critical...
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Monday, June 23, 2008

Brain exercise/fitness links...

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Tom Hanson, the Editor of OpenEducation.net , asks me to pass on these two separate posts on brain exercise/fitness, noting some firms t...

Strengths and Limits of fMRI studies on the brain

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Nikos Logothetis offers a long and detailed discussion of what we can and cannot learn from brain imaging approaches. I'm giving a few...
Saturday, June 21, 2008

Neuro-puffs and neuropundits...

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Check out this debunking of neuroimaging research on things like political partisanship and superbowl commercials.
Friday, June 20, 2008

A new perspective on culture-specific behavior

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Yamagishi et al. demonstrate that the East Asian "preference" for conformity is actually a default strategy to avoid accrual of n...
Thursday, June 19, 2008

A population genetic analysis of male homosexuality

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As a companion to the previous post, I pass along this article by Ciani et al. arguing that only a two-locus genetic model for male homosex...

More on gay and straight brains.

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A recent study notes that in several measures of brain symmetry, straight men and gay women were similar, and gay men and straight women we...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

A new mind blog...

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At the risk of promoting further blog overload, I've added the Psychology Today blog to the 'other mind blogs' list just und...

Increasing complexity of nerve synapses during evolution

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Nicholas Wade points to the work of Grant and colleagues on how the complexity of nerve interconnections (synapses) has increased during e...
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Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology

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Bolhuis reviews a book with the title of this post by philosopher Robert Richardson. (I have read a longer excellent book, "Adapting ...