Friday, October 31, 2008

A question to readers... MindBlog podcasts?

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Blog reader Patrice responded to the previous posting in a comment asking about the possibly of my doing podcasts on some mindblog topics. A...
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Fan Mail

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Although I feel totally immodest about doing this, I have to pass on this text of a email today from a reader of this blog in Tasmania, Au...
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Psychology of the electorate

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I point to two interesting articles in the New York Times. Dewan and Brown discuss how the work of psychologist Drew Westen (mentioned in ...

Emergent properties of human groups

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Just as ants interact to form elaborate colonies and neurons interact to create structured thought, groups of people interact to create emer...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Religion: Bound to believe?

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I pass on clips from an article by Pascal Boyer that explains why a slew of cognitive traits shared by humans will always make atheism a ha...
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Fair and Balanced - measuring media bias

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One hears charges from both left and right about media bias, with FOX News frequently cited as the most extreme case. Tim Groeling has done...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Watching the amygdala signal the good and the bad

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An interesting piece in Jour. of Neuoscience by Belova et al. , in which recordings from single cells in the monkey amygdala indicate their ...

Happiness and the 'prosperoscope'

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The random samples section of Science Magazine discusses the latest prosperity or 'happiness index' report of the Legatum Institute:...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Instinctual math

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Natalie Angier does an interesting article on our instinctual intuitive math versus our more analytical learned number crunching, and the r...

Views of the presidential candidates on science

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Here is the PDF from Science Magazine.
Monday, October 27, 2008

Poulenc Novelette in C major for a Monday morning

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Recorded 10/25/08 on the Steinway B in my home on Twin Valley Road in Middleton, Wisconsin.

Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth

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Here is the abstract of the article by Williams and Bargh which has the title of this post: "Warmth" is the most powerful persona...

Embodied cognition, a cold stare makes you feel cold.

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I show below the abstract from Zhong and Leonardelli , followed by more explanation from an article by Benedict Carey . Metaphors such as i...
Sunday, October 26, 2008

Drinking alone, with "friends" on Facebook

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I'm struck by how very little I know about the ~10,000 visitors that Quantcast tells me come to Deric's MindBlog each month. Thus ...
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Friday, October 24, 2008

Distortion of science by headline-grabbing

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I'm always being concerned in scanning journals for possible postings in this blog that my eye is too readily caught by the flashy marke...
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How we know our own minds...

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For those of you who might be more heavily into philosophy of mind and introspective psychology, I want to pass along this PDF of a draft a...
Thursday, October 23, 2008

Different aspects of human intelligence correlate with cortical thickness versus neural activation.

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Choi et al. report an interesting study in the Journal of Neuroscience. I'm passing on the abstract and a bit of explanation of crysta...

Sleep accelerates improvement in working memory.

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I've mentioned the n-back task for improving working memory and intelligence in several - previous - posts . Kuriyama et al. now use ...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Cognitive therapy versus medication for depression

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DeRubeis et al. offer an interesting review article in Nature Reviews Neuroscience on treatment outcomes and neural mechanisms, from which ...
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Our somatosensory cortex embodies the facial expressions of others

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The Editor's choice section of science describes an interesting bit of work by Pitcher et al. showing the embodyment of our social cogn...