Thursday, October 29, 2009

Extroverts and introverts

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I couldn't resist passing this on from the I CAN HAS CHEEZ BURGER site:

The brain's anatomy of emotion induced by music.

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From Tranel, Adolphs, and collaborators , a fascinating piece of work reported in the International Journal of Psychology (check out the ot...
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Dopamine, a molecule of motivation

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Angier does a summary .
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

MindBlog on the road.

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Over the past month of unseasonably cold weather here in Middleton Wisconsin my movement has become increasingly stiff and arthritic, so tod...

A jaded view....

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A less positive view of humankind than the one described in the previous post - from the Oct. 26 issue of The New Yorker. The caption: ...

Nature's lessons for a more kind society.

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Blog reader Gary Olson has pointed me to his review of Franz De Waal's new book " The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons For A Kinder...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Learning sculpts our spontaneous resting brain activity.

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Lewis et al. have demonstrated that learning an attention-demanding visual task modifies the spontaneous correlation of activity in the ...
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Monkeys drumming - a gestural origin of speech and music?

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From Remediosa, Logothetisa, and Kaysera : Salient sounds such as those created by drumming can serve as means of nonvocal acoustic communic...
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Monday, October 26, 2009

Meditation training can enhance the stability of our attention

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Several groups collaborate to show that meditation training can can significantly affect attention and brain function. The capacity to stab...

Election night 2008: testosterone level of male McCain voters dropped

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Stanton et al. collected saliva samples from 183 study participants before and after the results of the 2008 presidential election were an...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Emotional contagion without conscious awareness

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Tamietto et al. make the fascinating observation that unseen emotionally expressive facial or body movements (stimuli presented to the blin...

Health improves during economic depressions.

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Having to live more lean and mean in economically hard times is apparently good for us. From Granados and Roux : Recent events highlight th...

The nagging thing you don't understand about yourself

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The 150th issue of the British Psychological Association's Research Digest email has posted a series of fascinating responses by leadin...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

The ages of mankind

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Here is a neat graphic from the New York Times, apparently motivated by a paper this month in The Lancet saying that half of all the babies...

The 'society of selves' in each of us

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David Brooks does a nice layman's summary titled "Where the Wild Things Are" of our modern views on how an individual's ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The Fat and Short of It

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Engber writes a brief article on the fact that not only are there correlations between excess fat and health risk, but also shorter height...

Social threat activates our body's inflammatory chemistry

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This work from Dickerson et al. is both fascinating and frightening. It provides a more detailed glimpse of how social threat can transmut...

Genetic influences increase between early and middle childhood.

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From Davis et al. : The generalist genes hypothesis implies that general cognitive ability (g) is an essential target for understanding how ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Cognitive enhancement may come at a cost.

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Johan Leher has contributed a fascinating article to Nature News ( PDF here ) that discusses the 30 or more strains of mice that have been ...
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The Teddy Bear Effect

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An interesting article from Livingston and Pearce , "The Teddy-Bear Effect: Does Having a Baby Face Benefit Black Chief Executive Offic...