Thursday, December 31, 2009

Inhibited behavior and our right frontal cortex.

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Another interesting piece of work from Richie Davidson and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin.  Continuing their general catalog of ...

The power of music

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North and Hargreaves introduce a special issue of The Psychologist which looks at musical ability; how and why people let music into their ...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Changes in our brain connectivities as a funcion of age and sex

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From Gong et al. one of those studies I take personally (i.e. describing my aging male brain): Neuroanatomical differences attributable to...

Subtle transmission of race bias by televised nonverbal behavior

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It is well known that whites who appear nonprejudiced on self-report measures tend to display negative nonverbal behaviors as a function of ...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Culture modulate eye movement responses to visual novelty

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Goh et al. find a robust cultural bias in visual processing even when external stimuli draw attention in an opposite manner to the cultural...

Indirect reward and punishment - their payoff

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Ule et al. examine indirect reciprocity, which in widespread in human culture - rewarding those we know have been kind to others or punishi...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Describing our inner experience...

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Hoffman writes an article describing the work of Russell T. Hurlburt, who tries to record the mental life of individuals by fitting them wi...

Diminutive digits discern delicate details.

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Peters et al. show that tactile perception improves with decreasing finger size, and that this correlation fully explains the better percep...
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Friday, December 25, 2009

From the Bach Collegium Munchen....

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The emotional resonance of this magnificent high church music pierces right through my materialistic rationalist armor. The setting of this...
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How our brains keep multiple things in mind.

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Siegel et al. have made a fundamental advance in revealing how the brain manages to keep multiple things in mind in our working (short term...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

One more light show...

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Amazing Grace Techno - Computer Controlled Christmas Lights from Richard Holdman on Vimeo .
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The "protocol society"

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In a recent Op-Ed piece Brooks makes some points about the new economy: In the 19th and 20th centuries we made stuff: corn and steel and t...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

For the season...

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Can't let the holiday pass without a light show:

'Tis the season to be generous'...but watch the testosterone

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A nice nugget from Zak et al : How do human beings decide when to be selfish or selfless? In this study, we gave testosterone to 25 men to ...
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More on the psychology of Liberals and Conservatives

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Michael Shermer does an interesting column on this topic in the December Scientific American. It focuses mainly on the work of Jonathan Hai...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Clever octopus, using tools.

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No sooner do I get back from a restaurant in which I had a marvelous octopus ceviche, than I come across this video. 

The origins of tidyness.

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Turns out that ~800,000 year old Neanderthal dwellings excavated in Israel show signs of separate "activity areas" such as hearth...

Editor's choice at the Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science

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Back in the dark ages I had an article in a special issue of Behavioral and Brain Science (in an issue devoted to publishing the papers giv...
Monday, December 21, 2009

How to lie more skillfully

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Just apply transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to your anterior prefrontal cortex (aPFC). From Karim et al : Recent neuroimaging...

Neuromarketing nonsense

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A blog reader pointed out to me this nice popular press debunking , by Sally Satel (interestingly, a resident scholar at the American Enterp...
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