Monday, April 06, 2009

Language shapes fundamental unconscious visual perception.

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From Thierry et al : It is now established that native language affects one's perception of the world. However, it is unknown whether th...
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Friday, April 03, 2009

Previous choice shapes MRI signals reflecting future expectation and choice

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An interesting piece from Dolan's group (open access) on correlates of future expected hedonic outcome: Humans tend to modify their att...

The decline of science journalism.

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Brumfield writes an essay on the rise of science blogging alongside the decay of science journalism: because of a generalized downturn, espe...

An online 'science of happiness' course.

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Foundations of Positive Psychology , from the University of Pennsylvania College of Liberal and Professional Studies.
Thursday, April 02, 2009

Facebook, Twitter...can evolution keep up with us? A coming crash?

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This post continues the thread started in last Monday's post on future shock and yesterday's iParticipate post. I try to stay inf...
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MindBlog on Twitter

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In spite of today's companion post on potential toxic effects of new social phenomena such as Twitter and Facebook, I can't give it ...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Want some diet soda?

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iParticipate - social participation networks

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I guess I am a hard wired old curmudgeon. I wonder how many of you also get an overload headache when confronting this brave new social net...
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Markers of conscious access.

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An interesting study from Gaillard et. al. : What is the neural signature of the conscious perception of a visual stimulus? To address this...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

The enlightenment returns.

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I have been almost reduced to tears of gratitude by Obama's statements on restoring an American government that is guided by rationality...
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Brain structures that correlate with impulse control in boys.

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From Boes et al. : Emerging data on the neural mechanisms of impulse control highlight brain regions involved in emotion and decision making...
Monday, March 30, 2009

Future shock...

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I found this video about the growth of information interesting and overwhelming...you will want to turn down the volume a bit. Again, a tip ...

Restore damaged brain circuits with light...

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I generally don't delve into cellular and molecular stuff in this blog (even though my previous lab research was at this level), but som...

Digit ratios and high frequency trading

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As a followup to my Jan 16 posting on this topic, I pass on a 'letters to the editor' exchange. From Kobe Miller : The article by C...
Friday, March 27, 2009

We are all wired differently - first analysis of a mammalian "connectome"

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In a striking demonstration, Lu et al have shown that even for one of the smallest muscles in a mouse, the wiring diagram differs between t...
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Observing a brain rewiring itself

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Our motor cortex has a topographic representation of our bodies (a homunculus), as shown in the figure. It has generally been assumed that ...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

I feel what you feel if we are similar

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From Serino et al. : Social interactions are influenced by the perception of others as similar or dissimilar to the self. Such judgements co...

Who you are depends on how you feel.

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Here is a curious bit by Ashton-James et al. , from the journal Psychological Science, noting yet another distinction between Western and As...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Globalization and the internet enhance world cooperation...

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Buchan et al. tabulate the relationship between a country-level globalization index (CGI) produced by the Centre for the Study of Globaliz...

Globalization and the internet diminish cooperation.

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As a partial counter to today's other MindBlog posting, a Kristoff essay , "The Daily Me," argues that we use the internet fo...