Friday, January 30, 2009

Estrogen receptors in the male medial amygdala disrupt social behavior.

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A series of classic studies have shown that in Prairie Voles two neuropeptides, oxytocin and vasopressin, are primary modulators of pair-bon...

The dolphin as gourmet chef: how to prepare cuttlefish

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From the abstract of Finn et al. : ...a wild female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin ( Tursiops aduncus ) was observed and recorded repeated...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

Soul-travel for selfless beings

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Thomas Metzinger, one of my favorite philosophers, offers this piece on this years Edge.org question "What will change everything.&quo...
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Neural correlates of third party punishment.

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Legal decision making involves assessing the defendant's responsibility for the crime and choosing an appropriate punishment. To determi...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

MindBlog's first PodCast: "The I-Illusion"

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Posting the podcast of the web radio show this past Monday motivated me to follow through on composing a few of my own podcasts for MindBlo...
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Seeing who we hear and hearing who we see

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In an article with the title of this post Seyfarth and Cheney make the following comments on work by Proops et al. Imagine that you're...
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Eating dirt is good for you.

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I have always attributed my robust immune system (I don't get colds) to the fact that when I was 1-5 years old I was crawling or running...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Seeing ourselves as eddies in the stream of entropy

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Of the hundreds of essays written to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, I think one of the most engaging is ...
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The Machine Stops

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A large component of the current financial meltdown results from people trusting that they were being cared for by complex financial instrum...
Monday, January 26, 2009

MindBlog does a gig on a happiness webcast/podcast

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With some trepidation I signed on to be a talking head neuroscience 'expert' on the "Make Me Happy!" Radio Show with Drs. ...
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A new kind of mind.

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In response to this years Edge question "What would change everything - What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you ex...

Most downloaded consciousness papers of 2008

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The ASSC (Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness) keeps an eprints archive from which you can download a large number of pape...
Friday, January 23, 2009

Getting the dead to talk back.

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In his January Scientific American column, "Skeptic", Michael Shermer writes about his experience as the token scientist invited t...

Predicting risk taking

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From Gianotti et al. , who performed EEG measurements on forty right-handed female students at the Univ. of Zurich: Human risk taking is cha...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

Some clarity on alternative therapies and medical science

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Mindblog reader Ian has pointed me to this essay on alternative medicine and new age spirituality by Bruce Charlton, at the University of N...
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Prosopagnosia due to reduced cortical connectivity

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Prosopagnosics have impaired face recognition, but make relatively normal responses to face stimuli in core brain regions for face recogniti...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Sex, sweat and your brain

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From Zou and Chen , showing that two areas of women's brains respond to chemical signals in the sweat of sexually aroused men. Their e...
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Why we hiccup.

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An article by Neil Shubin in the January Scientific American notes how a number of evolutionary hand-me-downs inherited from fish and tadpol...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Species conservation - how being helpful hurts

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Cornelia Dean makes note of a fact I had not thought much about. Conservation regulations that specify the minimum size of individuals tha...
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Oxytocin makes a face in memory familiar

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It is known that men treated with oxytocin perform better in inferring affective state from the eye region of human faces. Oxytocin also inc...
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