Wednesday, March 31, 2010

A Mozart adagio

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Second movement of the sonata started in Monday's post. David Goldberger playing treble, I'm playing base.

Overcoming status quo bias in our brains

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Yet another interesting bit of work involving Ray Dolan and his collaborators.  Here is the abstract and a summary figure: Humans often ac...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Harris: science can point to 'what ought to be'

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This TED talk by Sam Harris is worth watching.  He makes the point that the fact-value distinction is far from clear.
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Sociopaths know right from wrong but don't care.

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An interesting point from Cima et al. (open access) : Adult psychopaths have deficits in emotional processing and inhibitory control, engag...
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Monday, March 29, 2010

Monday Mozart allegro

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Monday, Wednesday, Friday this week I'm posting the three movements of the Mozart Sonata for 4-hands, K. 358. which I played in concert ...

Babies are born to dance.

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From Zentnera and Eerolab (open access) : Humans have a unique ability to coordinate their motor movements to an external auditory stimulus...
Friday, March 26, 2010

The Schubert Fantasy - part 3

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Following Monday's and Wednesday's postings, the final portion of the Schubert Fantasy. I'm playing treble, David Goldberger is...

Wal-Mart Moral Lessons

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John Tierney describes cross cultural studies of sharing and fairness (comparing, for example, hunter-gatherers with midwestern Wal-Mart sh...
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Everybody have fun.

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Elizabeth Kolbert writes a very accessible article ( PDF here ) having the title of this post in the March 22 issue of The New Yorker. The t...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Cooperative behavior cascades in human social networks

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Fowler and Christakis, in an open access article in PNAS , demonstrate that one cooperative act has a multiplying effect. In an iterative ga...

More on mindfulness meditation and emotional muscle

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A reader of Monday's post asked if I could post abstracts from the special issue (on Mindfulness meditation) of the journal Emotion men...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The Schubert Fantasy - part 2

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Part 2 of the Schubert fantasy, part I was posted Monday. I'm playing the treble, David Goldberger is playing the base.

Our face recognition capability has a strong genetic component

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While we have strong evidence for genetic effects on basic sensory processes (such as inherited color vision defects) evidence for genetic c...
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Comments on "Statins enchance memory"

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Readers who were interested in the recent post on statins should have a look at the comments that have come in. They note studies showing a...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Text without context and the death of culture

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Michiko Kakutani writes an excellent article in last Sunday's NYTimes. The article is so rich that you really must read the whole thing...

Brain changes caused by forced right-handedness

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Klöppel et al. make the interesting observation that plastic changes occur not only in primary sensory-motor cortex but also deep structur...
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Monday, March 22, 2010

A Schubert fantasy (part I) for Monday morning

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This is a recording of a 4-hands Schubert piano piece played in concert in Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 7, 2010, by myself (treble) and David...

Training emotional muscles of the brain - special issue of Emotion

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The February issue of the journal Emotion is devoted to studying psychological, physiological, emotional correlates of mindfulness meditati...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

Statins enhance memory

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I started taking low doses of a generic statin (Simvastatin) several years ago not because my cholesterol needed lowering, but because I had...
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A lipstick that signals how turned on you are?

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An item plucked at random from 'the stream': A new lipstick has gone on sale that the manufacturer claims shows, by changing color...