Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Is Art the future of Science?

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I want to point out a lovely essay by Johan Lehrer that explores how esthetic and artistic explorations have influenced paradigm shifting i...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Can you see me?

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Check out this interesting piece from John Tierney on modern camouflage that is based on knowledge of how a deer's eye perceives the wo...

Male promiscuity versus monogamy in humans nudged by same genes as in Prarie Voles

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A series of elegant experiments done on meadow voles versus prairie voles (promiscuous versus monogamous males) show that the different beha...
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Monday, September 29, 2008

The sucker to saint effect.

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Here is an interesting tidbit in Psychological Science from Jordan and Monin . They suggest we protect our own self image by feeling morall...

Brain processing of action language influenced by sports experience.

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There is abundant evidence that if we train and enhance our skill at a particular kind of action (piano playing, serving a tennis ball, etc....
Friday, September 26, 2008

A memory activates the same brain cells as the original experience.

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A fascinating observation from Gelbard-Sagiv et al. , who studied patients with pharmacologically intractable epilepsy with implanted depth ...
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The teenage brain.

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Harvard Magazine has an interesting brief article describing work on the teenage brain being done at Harvard Medical School.
Thursday, September 25, 2008

Online brain and cognitive science courses

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Every week or so I get an email from a reader asking "how do I find out more about......" or "what is a good book on.......

A taste test for depression?

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From a report by Cahoon on the July Physiological Society Meetings in Cambridge, UK. Melichar and Donaldson gave healthy volunteers a tiny ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Training young brains to behave

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Benedict Carey offers an informative article on brain development in children, and the growth of self control as the prefrontal cortex matu...

Social exclusion causes unconscious mimicry

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Lakin et al. make some interesting observations on our reactions to being socially excluded by others, we are likely to unconsciously start...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Chill out aids

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A few links for calming your mental chatter during these tumultuous financial times: Worriers Annonymous Sacred Geometry

Gender gaps widen

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A New York Times article by John Tierney describes the work of Schmitt and others: When men and women take personality tests, some of the ...
Monday, September 22, 2008

Cherokee story for a Monday morning...

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While I was doing some idle web cruising using StumbleUpon this item came up, which I thought was a good way to frame one basic cognitiv...
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Neural correlates of Zen meditation

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The complete title of the article by Pagoni et al. is “Thinking about Not-Thinking”: Neural Correlates of Conceptual Processing during Zen ...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Bad mothering, good fathering..

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Two interesting pieces of work on the chemistry underlying parental care of children: Lerch-Haner et al. find in mice that serotonergic fun...

YouTube for test tubes...

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Something I have been unaware of: A YouTube for scientists called The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE). It is now now being indexed...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

Our brains try multiple meanings before a word is finished.

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Here are fascinating observations from Revill et al. . Their imaging data provides evidence of activation of relevant perceptual brain regio...

Development of sharing in human children.

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Unlike chimpanzees, young children develop a particular form of other-regarding behaviour, called inequality aversion, between the ages of t...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Symmetrical bodies are the sexiest...an underlying reason

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Why do we find someone attractive? The observations of Brown et al. support the idea that we find symmetrical human bodies most attractive...