Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Genetics of successful placebo response to stress.

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Here is a fascinating piece of work from Furmark et al. , showing that placebo treatment of stress in subjects with social anxiety disorder ...
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Upper limb amputees can sense a rubber hand as their own

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A further observation on the brain plasticity shown during the rubber hand illusion (mentioned in the Dec. 24 posting) is made by Ehrsson et...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Musing on the topic of well-being or happiness...

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On seeing this Op-Ed piece by Lyubomirsky in the NYTimes I realized that this is the author, an academic researcher, who has put out a book...
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Hemispheric shift of categorical color perception during brain development.

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Franklin et al. show an interesting shift in categorical perception of colors from right to left hemisphere as infants learn the words that...
Monday, December 29, 2008

Sharing today's New York Times

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How social status shapes race.

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Penner and Saperstein carry out an interesting analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which contains multi...

Altering our self-face recognition

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In the wake of several recent posts on the rubber hand illusion, which alters our sense of where our hand is in space, I thought this observ...
Friday, December 26, 2008

The net generation

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Hurt offers a review of Tapscott's recent book "Growing up Digital", which defines the 81 million people born between 1977 to...
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Men are red, women are green.

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Here is a curious bit which I pass on from the Random Samples section of the Dec. 19 Science Magazine, describing the work of researchers at...
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Thursday, December 25, 2008

Bach oratorio on period instruments.

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Cognitive benefits of a walk in the woods

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An article by Berman et al. in Psychological Science (PDF here ) shows that immersion in a natural environment leads to more than simply a...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Seasonal Nostalgia

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I alternatively want to feel warm and cushy or gag myself with a spoon on watching this.
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Knowing where and knowing how to get there - a dissociation in the rubber hand illusion.

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Kammers et al. show that during the rubber hand illusion (in which watching a rubber hand being stroked while our own unseen hand is synchr...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Effect of candidate appearance on election outcomes - neural correlates

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An interesting open access article from Adolphs and collaborators: Election outcomes correlate with judgments based on a candidate's vi...

Enhanced perception of threat during limited attention

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This open access article from Dolan's and collaborators builds on previous studies on the role of the amygdala in pre-attentive process...
Monday, December 22, 2008

Our motor cortex responds to musical rhythms.

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From Chen et al. : Perception and actions can be tightly coupled; but does a perceptual event dissociated from action processes still engag...

Video Introduction to Experimental Philosophy

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A MindBlog reader points us to this site , which uses a a YouTube video to better explain the concept of intention and the role our moral ju...
Friday, December 19, 2008

Avian Dancing

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From the New York Times Magazine special issue on 'Year in Ideas 2008', slightly edited: Here you see a large white bird balanced on...
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Crisis of Confidence for Masters of the Universe

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An interesting article by Friedman in the NYTimes on psychological effects of the market meltdown. Over the last few months, I have seen a ...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

Why are we so nice? ...because generosity wins.

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Here is a further entry in Nature's "Being Human" series, in which Martin Nowak points out that mathematical models predict, ...