Friday, August 29, 2008

Intelligence enhancing software - continued...

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I wanted to bring into this separate post a comment from blog reader Erik, made below. You don't have to own an iPhone and pay six buck...

Do our noses sniff danger in the air?

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The Grueneberg ganglion is a recently discovered ball of olfactory nerve cells found at the tip of the noses of mammals, including us. It ...

The discovery of structural form

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Charles Kemp and Tenenbaum present a computational model that learns structures of many different forms and that discovers which form is be...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

New software for your iPhone to make you smart

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In a previous post I have mentioned the work of Jaeggi et al. who have shown that fluid intelligence, the ability to reason and to solve n...
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Evolution "for the Good of the Group"

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David S. Wilson and Edwin O. Wilson write a very clear summary in American Scientist, with title of this post, of the main features of gro...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Brain Candy

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Daniel Levitin writes a review of "Human - What Makes Us Unique" by Michael S. Gazzaniga which is worth a look. Also, Levitin h...
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Phantom Penises In Transsexuals

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In an article in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, Ramachandran and McGeoch offer evidence of an innate gender-specific body image in t...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

MindBlog's editorial assistant

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It is very difficult to putter with this blog while lounging on my couch - one of my new Abyssianian kittens always helps out or wishes I w...

A simple metric to infer personality from facial expression

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Oosterhof and Todorov have devised a simple model that uses facial cues that have evolutionary significance to predict important social jud...
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Monday, August 25, 2008

Weekly musical offering - Stars & Stripes FOREVER!

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Brain changes that correlate with successful dyslexia therapy

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Meyler et al. have published an interesting study in Neuropsychologia showing brain plasticity during the remedial instruction of poor read...
Friday, August 22, 2008

Cat Pols

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My apologies, I can't help myself. Another cat video.. click on this link , not the picture below.

Oxytocin attenuates aversive reactions

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Here is an interesting report from Dolan's laboratory, showing that oxytocin attenuates our emotional response and amygdala reactivity t...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Self interest versus the common good in economic policy design.

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An essay by Bowles in Science points to a shortcoming in the conventional economic approach to policy design: It overlooks the possibility ...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Cute Cat Overload on the Web

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Several days ago my daughter sent me this link to a site of humorous cat pictures such as the following. Now in today's New York Times ...
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Brain Correlates of Borderline Personality Disorder

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King-Casas et al. carry out interesting experiments in which they recruited 55 individuals afflicted with borderline personality disorder (...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Our expressions of fear and disgust serve specific adaptive purposes

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Susskind et al. make some interesting observations that suggest that our facial expressions of fear or disgust are not set by arbitrary soc...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Mindblog does an experiment with resveratrol, the anti-aging compound.

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I have done a number of posts on resveratrol (to have a look at them, enter 'resveratrol' in the search box in the left column). Thi...
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Friday, August 15, 2008

The Mind Does the Tricks for a Magician

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Benedict Carey does a fascinating article on how short cuts that our brains make to assemble our perceptions are exploited by magicians. H...

Anticipation of movement suppresses sensory awareness.

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Here is an interesting tidbit... Voss et al. show that the mere expectation of moving a part of our body suppresses that body part's o...
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