Friday, February 26, 2010

A Mozart Presto

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Here is another of the rehearsal recordings we make to critique, to be eventually replaced by a final version. It is a run through of the Pr...

Evidence for a geometric brain module suggested by William's syndrome defect

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Context from the introduction by Lakusta et al. When rats, human toddlers, or adults are disoriented in a chamber, they search for targets...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Human pheromones - androstenol activates hypothalamus in women.

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There is continuing debate over whether, and to what extent, we humans (like other mammals) might use body odors secreted from our skin in s...
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Reward centers in men activated by optimal hip-to-waist ratio in women

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Observations from Platek and Singh add to the evolutionary psychologists' discussion of determinants of men's sexual preferences. T...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Is the internet making us smarter or dumber?

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During happy hour at my local watering hole, I frequently pull out my iPhone and do a bit of random web cruising. Several nights ago this yi...
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Universal nonverbal vocal communication of negative, but not positive, emotions.

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Here is a fascinating open access article well worth having a look at: Emotional signals are crucial for sharing important information, wi...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Holy surgery and the spiritual brain.

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Over the past several years I've done a number of posts on brain correlates of spirituality, in particular work on lesions or temporal l...
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Monday, February 22, 2010

The 'cutaneous rabbit' hops outside of the body!

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A well known demonstration of how our brain makes assumptions about what is happening 'out there' on the basis of very limited input...
Friday, February 19, 2010

Some friday morning Mozart

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Working with retired professional pianist David Goldberger, I'm preparing for a 4-hands recital on Sunday, March 7 in Fort Lauderdale. I...
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Effect of socioeconomic status on increase in stress hormones over time.

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A sobering account from Chen et al. : Disparities by socioeconomic status (SES) are seen for numerous mental and physical illnesses, and ye...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Female teachers can transmit math anxiety to girls

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Beilock et al. make some interesting observations: People’s fear and anxiety about doing math—over and above actual math ability—can be an...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

More on conservative versus liberal brains.

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Nicholas Kristoff does a nice piece on a topic I have done several previous posts on - fundamental differences in the wiring of conservativ...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Grumpy people may be more evolved

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My son pointed me to work by Wobber et al.   which makes me feel much better about my curmudgeonly nature.  They compared the behavior of Ch...
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Monday, February 15, 2010

Cat Turf War

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My apologies (and this surely falls under the 'random curious stuff' category) but I can't resist passing on this hysterical cat...

Better to react than to act.

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In ScienceNOW Tim Wogan points to recent work by Welchman et al.   showing that when it comes to execution of our movements, reaction beats...
Friday, February 12, 2010

Dialing the desired emotions in your music...

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One evolutionary rationale for the origin of music is that it enhances and amplifies basic emotional states to amplify social bonding and co...
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Lusting while loathing...

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An interesting open access article from Litt (something you knew already, but psychologists gotta have something to measure!): We show ho...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

A chemical test for disturbed relationship?

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MindBlog has done a number of posts on behavioral effects of oxytocin and vasopressin in humans (enter the terms in the search box in the le...
Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Abstract thoughts move muscles.

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Movements of our muscles influence our thoughts and emotions. People given neutral bland instructions to contract the specific face muscles ...
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Monday, February 08, 2010

The 4th anniversary of Deric's MindBlog

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As year five of this blog starts, I find it hard to believe that I have banged out over 2,000 postings, that the blog has ~1,500 RSS feed su...
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