Monday, November 24, 2008

Potential flaws in unconscious bias tests

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An interesting article by John Tierney notes controversy over the way researchers have been using split-second reactions on a computer test...

Cultural specificity in amygdala response to fear faces

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From Chiao et al. : The human amygdala robustly activates to fear faces. Heightened response to fear faces is thought to reflect the amygda...
Friday, November 21, 2008

The innovative brain

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Lawrence et al. present preliminary neurocognitive data from matched groups of entrepreneurs and managerial controls that suggests that ent...

Alexithymia

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I just learned a new word: Alexithymia, the inability to express feelings with words, or more generally deficiency in understanding, proces...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor - a new version

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I just have to pass this on (from Andrews Sullivan's blog):
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Towards a Moral Neuropolitics

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Gary Olson writes an article on the neuroscience of empathy and mirror neuron systems, arguing that the morality that leads to progressive ...

Making your tennis racquet part of your brain's body representation

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Interesting work from Fourkas et al. in Cerebral Cortex: Specific physical or mental practice may induce short- and long-term neuroplastic ...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Why do intelligent people live longer?

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Ian Deary offers an interesting essay in Nature. Here are some clips: Scores from cognitive-ability tests (intelligence tests or IQ tests)...
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Religion and visual attention

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Colzato et al. report a quirky study in PLoS ONE : "Losing the Big Picture: How Religion May Control Visual Attention" Despite the...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

The way we age

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I find myself returning again and again to a New Yorker article by Atul Gawande, "The Way We Age Now." ( PDF here ). It was the ...

Massive reorganization of visual cortex at the level of dendritic spines..

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Keck et al. do elegant experiments to directly observe spine replacement in individual apical dendritic tufts of layer-5 pyramidal neurons,...
Monday, November 17, 2008

A novel theory of mental disorders

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Benedict Carey writes a useful article on a radical new theory for explaining the psychotic spectrum: ...that an evolutionary tug of war be...

Language evolution embedded in cooperative social context

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Another installment in the Nature series "Being Human" is offered by Szathmáry and Számadó , who put the case that language evol...

The subliminal power of logos

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An interesting article by Rob Walker in the New York Times Magazine: "The Brand-ness of Strangers." In one study, each subject wa...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

Is the financial meltdown a guy thing?

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Dobrzynski asks whether traders have become prisoners of their endocrine systems — ruled by testosterone, the elixir of male aggressiveness...
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Friday, November 14, 2008

From Genes to Social Behavior

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The Nov. 7 issue of Science Magazine is a gold mine of articles on genetics and behavior. I'm giving you here a clip from from the intr...

Suffering Souls

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A fascinating article in The New Yorker by John Seabrook on the search for the roots of psychopathy, the condition of moral emptiness that ...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Most popular MindBlog posts...

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I sometimes glance at several of the free services that offer to monitor activity on one's blog (Feedburner, Google Analytics, Quantcast...

Sleep loss produces false memories.

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From Diekelmann et al. : People sometimes claim with high confidence to remember events that in fact never happened, typically due to stron...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Undoing cocaine's consequences.

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In animal experiments stressful and aversive conditions can enhance drug-seeking and drug intake, while stress-reducing manipulations and no...
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