Friday, January 29, 2010

A clever treatment for tinnitus

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Okamoto et al. find that they can reduce brain activity related to tinnitus by exposing chronic tinnitus patients to self-chosen, enjoyable...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Social structure influences language structure.

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Lupyan and Dale do a statistical analysis of over 2,000 languages to show that ...languages spoken by large groups have simpler inflection...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Resting brain default mode activity under genetic control

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From Glahn et al : The default-mode network, a coherent resting-state brain network, is thought to characterize basal neural activity. Aber...
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Distinguish Democrats and Republicans from their faces.

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Here is a quirky item ... it turns out that we can guess the political affiliation of someone, more accurately than by chance, by looking at...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

The secret life of chaos.

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The BBC has produced a beautiful program on Chaos theory. The mathematics of chaos can explain how and why the universe creates exquisite or...
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Thinking of God moves attention

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Here is an interesting tidbit : The concepts of God and Devil are well known across many cultures and religions, and often involve spatial ...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Speech perception requires motor system activation.

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Yuen et al. find that specific articulatory commands are activated automatically and involuntarily during speech perception, and suggest, i...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Rats can learn a cooperation game.

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Yet another supposed barrier between human and animal smarts has fallen,  the assumption that only humans have the cognitive capabilities to...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

Watching our brain decide when it has enough information

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Once we think we have sufficient data for a decision, our brains constrain the accumulation of addition information. de Lange et al. actual...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

One thing that doesn't deteriorate as we age!

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Kadota and Gomi find that our speed of detecting visual stimuli in our peripheral visual field during reaching movements shows little decay...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Why I am a snowbird...

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Scenes from the yard in my Wisconsin home. Beautiful, but chilly. 

A thought to speech machine.

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When I was a post-doctoral fellow in the Neurobiology Dept. at Harvard Medical School in 1967-68, I regularly attended tea time discussions ...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Distinguishing a new evolutionary track?

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This interesting article considers society as an evolutionary track distinct from culture and genes, noting that social and cultural units ...
Friday, January 15, 2010

Internet hive mind - the madness of crowds

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John Tierney does an interesting review of computer guru Jaron Lanier's new book "You Are Not a Gadget." which is a manifesto...
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Category errors in politics (the rage of the left) and mind science

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Hendrik Hertzberg, in an interesting piece in the Jan. 11 issue of The New Yorker 'Talk of the Town' section, comments on the alien...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

High-Tech Sex... and gestural interactions with electronics

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Would RealTouch have saved Elliot Spitzer or Tiger Woods? I doubt it. An article on the Adult Entertainment Expo that follows the Consum...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Attention alters appearance

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An interesting article by Störmer et al. addresses the neural basis of our phenomenological experience, probing a central question in perce...
Monday, January 11, 2010

The Messiah Complex

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Yes,  of course I went to see Avatar in 3-D IMAX.  Loved it. (The picture shows Deric using a chemical depressant to recover from the senso...
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Friday, January 08, 2010

Breaking the addiction to connectivity and networking.

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This post is a personal note.......As the holidays have drawn to a close and I am overloaded and  behind on almost everything,  I realize y...
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Distinguishing conscious from unconscious brain activity.

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Schurger et al. nudge a bit further towards finding one holy grail of neuroscience - identifying the neuronal correlates of conscious aware...