Friday, May 29, 2009

Hugs

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Given the unhealthy phobia about physical contact in this country, in addition to litigious paranoia about sexual harassment or improper tou...
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The coming superbrain?

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John Markoff offers a timely essay - given the recent release of the movie "Terminator Salvation" - on the future of artificial i...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Your own brain gym.

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Passing on this link emailed to me this morning: Build Your Own Brain Gym: 100 Tools, Exercises, and Games . The blog on this website (which...

Subcortical enhancement of musical intervals in musicians

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From Lee et al : By measuring the auditory brainstem response to two musical intervals, the major sixth (E3 and G2) and the minor seventh (E...
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The amusic brain

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Peretz et al. find that people with congenital amusia (~4% of the population unable to distinguish different tones) have the essential neur...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

The management of our attention

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Here is another of the many nuggets (from Chapter 9) from Metzinger's new book that hit me as an excellent summary. He discusses the p...
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Semantic versus behavioral deficits in left versus right fronto-temporal lobe atrophies

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Chan et al. provide a survey of the deficits observed in people with left versus right fronto-temporal lobe atrophies, which cause, respect...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

A musical offering for this week - Chopin Nocture in C minor

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Here is the posthumous Chopin Nocture in C minor.

Neural correlates of vicarious reward.

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Interesting observations from Mobbs et al. The experiments involved brain imaging of participants reacting to game winning by contestants w...

Evidence for separate semantic and syntactic processing in deaf native signers.

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Adding to evidence from written and spoken language suggesting that nonidentical brain networks support semantic and syntactic processing, C...
Monday, May 25, 2009

Massage stimulates brain development

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I've always been a massage nut. Many years ago I had some formal training, and I always feel totally rejuvenated by the too-infrequent m...
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SenseCam - a device for restoring and protecting memories

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While scanning my lost list of articles that might become the topic of MindBlog posts, I re-encountered this description from Science Magaz...
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Friday, May 22, 2009

What we will never be able to talk about - Ineffability

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At numerous points during my reading of Thomas Metzinger's new book " The Ego Tunnel " I have come across writing that seems ...
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Money doesn't make us happy, certainty does.

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A nice Op-Ed piece from Daniel Gilbert in the N.Y. Times. It is found on the New York Time's blog "Happy Days" - a discussion...
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Status is everything?

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Tierney describes how Geoffrey Miller continues the arguments he started in " The Mating Mind " which seek to reduce much of our ...
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Bad drives reactions, Good propels behaviors

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From Wang et al. , slightly edited: Research across disciplines suggests that bad is stronger than good and that individuals punish deceptio...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Why I am loyal to Wisconsin...

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From the UN Human Development Index for U.S. states and MapScroll :
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Hubris syndrome: An acquired personality disorder?

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Sigh....a nice clinical description of our recently departed president...Owen and Davidson offer a study of US presidents and UK prime mini...
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Meditation alters autonomic and central nervous system interaction.

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I pass on this new abstract from Tang et al , which makes observations that correlate with my own subjective experiences of meditation : Fi...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Arts and the Brain

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From the Dana Foundation , accounts of several neuro-education conferences on linking the Arts and intelligence. , musical training changin...
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