Monday, August 31, 2009

Monday musical offering - "Gade" from the lyrical pieces

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The power of the press.

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Chin, in the Editor's choice section of Science, notes work from Gerber et al. on the effects of newspapers: A common belief in the Un...

Genes predicting our individual differences in exploration and exploitation

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In the face of uncertainty, how do we choose between maintaining our current strategy or trying new strategies? A study From Frank et al. s...
Friday, August 28, 2009

The biological residue of low early life social class.

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A fascinating and sobering piece from Miller et al in the new issue of Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.: Children reared in unfavorable socioeconomic ...
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Comments on "Proust was a Neuroscientist"

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I have been reading, in fits and starts, Jonah Leher's "Proust was a Neuroscientist," and just came across a review by Jonatha...
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The poor payoff of pleasure postponed.

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An interesting article describing work of Harvard Business School assistant professor Anat Keinan, in collaboration with Columbia Business ...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Guilt and atonement in child development.

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Tierney does an interesting piece on work by Kochanska and colleagues showing how guilt in children, which usually appears during their se...

Running helps your knees?

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I'm a physically active person, and feel strange if I have missed a day of going to the university gym to swim, run, or do weights. A...

Anxious temperament correlates with serotonin transporter availability.

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Richie Davidson, Ned Kalin, and their collaborators here at Wisconsin make interesting observations on a groups of rhesus monkeys in which ...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Phantom

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Grieg Lyric Pieces Op 62 no 5, Phantom

Aging may enhance procedural skill acquisition

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While I notice that my short term memory is getting worse, I have felt (through my practicing and learning of new piano pieces) that my proc...
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Surowiecki on health care and status quo anxiety

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In theory, the public overwhelmingly supports health care reform. James Surowiecki has a piece in the current New Yorker that suggests seve...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

An iPhone "Happiness" App

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I've mentioned the work of Lyubomirsky in a previous post . She now has collaborated with people at Signal Patterns , a developer of psy...
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More on stress and the brain.

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There seems to be a surge recently in articles on stress in the brain. Here I point you to two pieces: work from McEwen and collaborators ...
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Cultural and Biological evolution similar, or not?

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Strimling et al. develop a simple model to test the most popular recent evolutionary hypothesis about culture, memetics, which maintains th...
Monday, August 24, 2009

Summer evenings

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As summer winds down, I've decided to record a few more Grieg lyrical pieces.

Monkeys affiliate with humans who imitate them.

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It is generally thought that imitation is one mechanism through which cultural learning occurs. When others mimic us, we like them more, em...

What distinguishes our minds from those of other creatures?

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The September issue of the Scientific American (the 'Origins Issue') has an article by Marc Hauser in which he makes a list of what ...
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Friday, August 21, 2009

Stressed Memories

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Following this week's (accidental) emphasis on stress and its effects, I'll point out an article by Henckens et al. on the enhance...
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Stem cells generate an entire functioning eye!

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Mair describes work by Viczian et al . who show that frog cells forced to express seven transcription factor genes form functioning eyes in...