Thursday, July 30, 2009

Deric's MindBlog on vacation in the UK.

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I've just arrived in London on my second trip of the summer: 16 days in the UK, first staying at a friend's flat near the Baker St....
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Taking turns in conversations - universals and cultural variation

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Stivers et al. examine the frequent claims in anthropological literature that cultures differ radically in the timing of conversational tur...

The "Neuro Revolution"

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German cognitive scientist and writer Stephan Schleim writes a review ( download here ) that is appropriately critical of Zack Lynch's ...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Some midweek Chopin - a Polonaise

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Mapping the human brain "connectome"

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It seems that almost everything can come now with an "-ome" suffix (referring to a totality of some sort. Beyond the original &q...
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Science Tattoos

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An amazing gallery of what people will do to themselves (in the name of science?).
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

The cognitive neuroscience of dyslexia and its repair

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John Gabrieli offers a review article in the July 17 issue of Science. Several clips: Reading is essential in modern societies, but many ch...
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Brain changes from childhood to young adulthood

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Supekar et al. compare large scale brain functional networks in 7-9 and 19-22 year olds and find that they differ significantly in hierarch...

National Institutes of Health to be run by a religionist??

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Sam Harris doesn't like the idea . Neither do I.
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Monday, July 27, 2009

For a mellow start to the week - a Grieg Nocturne

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Reason, emotion, and decision-making

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Steven Quartz does an opinion piece in Trends in Cognitive Science noting that the tidy separation of our decision making into cognitive an...
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The unconscionable rip-offs of American cell phone companies

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Have an iPhone and fume at AT&T? Get furious over listening to Verizon's long introduction before you can leave a message? (They m...
Friday, July 24, 2009

Training our minds to move matter

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We know that our body schema is plastic (see recent post on this), and that our brain's motor routines can learn stable habits of contr...

Why I take an omega-3 supplement before bedtime...

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I'm into dietary supplements that might be relevant to aging (as in the previous posts on resveratrol), and so thought this study was ...
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Cortical thickness, MRI, and early Alzheimer's diagnosis

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Alongside today's brief post on diet and aging, I thought I would pass on the links to two open access articles in the neurology journal...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

Thursday morning Grieg, a Berceuse

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I just looked up what a Berceuse is.... it's a lullaby, or soothing composition... This version would have to be considered a fairly rob...
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Positive self statements: power for some, peril for others

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Wood et al. offer an interesting article in Psychological Science. They present experiments showing that positive self-statements have the ...

Masturbation in the animal kingdom

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An interesting piece by Engber from Slate Magazine (The article even includes a link to a YouTube gallery on the subject!): The recent find...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

So....this is how my cat is manipulating me

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If you are a cat person, check out this interesting bit from Gisela Telis (it is open access for the new few weeks). She discusses a new s...
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Rapamycin - a midlife longevity drug?

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From the Nature 'Editor's Summary' of the paper by Harrison et al. The antitumour drug rapamycin targets TOR, a kinase that is p...