Thursday, May 27, 2010

Mindblog as dutiful tourist

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I'm heading back to Wisconsin from Istanbul tomorrow, and have just taken time to post the obligatory vacation shots. Being a foodie, ...
Monday, May 17, 2010

A lecture and piano recital in Istanbul

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As this post appears I will just be landing in Istanbul to attend "Cognitive VII", an international cognitive neuroscience meetin...
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Friday, May 14, 2010

The chemistry of commitment

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Parker-Pope does an interesting article on a topic that has repeatedly appeared in this blog, the role of vasopressin in regulating affilia...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

More on the science of morality - baby morals.

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Sam Harris deals with the massive (mostly critical) response to the TED lecture which I pointed to in my March 30 post , in which he argues...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Nasal attraction

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Olsson and Laska find an exception to the generalization that women sense chemicals better than men. Men are better at detecting the lily-o...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Eipgenetics and cognitive aging

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Aging-related cognitive decline begins for most of us when we are in our late 40s.  Deterioration is mosty pronounced the ability to recall ...
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Monday, May 10, 2010

More on creativity and the brain

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This past Saturday's NYTimes had an article featuring work by Rex Jung which was the subject of last Tuesday's post . A bit facile ...
Friday, May 07, 2010

Chimps have tools for sex

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Here is a great item from Tierney in this past Tuesday's NYTimes Science section. With the use of about 20 different tools having been...
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Thursday, May 06, 2010

William's syndrome: Disappearance of racism along with social fear.

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Meyer-Lindenberg and collaborators report the interesting observation that racial stereotyping, but not gender stereotyping, disappears in ...
Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Our brain as a cognitive miser - where decision costs are registered.

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McGuire1 and Botvinick show that lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) is where the costs of cognitively demanding decisions are reflected. From...
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Slowing down the brain may enhance creativity.

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Geddes points to work by Jung et al. that suggest an inverse correlation in human subjects between brain connectivity, reflected by the am...
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Monday, May 03, 2010

Emotions can persist longer than memory of their induction.

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Feinstein et al. provide evidence that a feeling of emotion can endure beyond the conscious recollection for the events that initially trig...
Sunday, May 02, 2010

Embodyment: a two-minute powerful pose raises your testosterone levels

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I pass on this fascinating item from a mindblog reader who has pointed out a number of other interesting articles to me. The article by Car...
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Friday, April 30, 2010

Evaluating effects of genes and environment on early reading.

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Work from Taylor et al. studying mono- and dizygotic twins in kindergarten through 5th grade suggests, not suprisingly, that that better t...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

When do human groups form states?

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Spencer suggests that human states evolve (without contact with any preexisting states) when the area controlled by a group becomes larger ...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Do brain training programs work?

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ScienceNow reports an interesting tussle over the effectiveness of brain training programs. BBC producers contacted Adrian Owen at the MRC ...
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Old age improves reasoning about social conflicts

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Interesting observation from Grossmann et al. : It is well documented that aging is associated with cognitive declines in many domains. Yet...
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Monday, April 26, 2010

Internet enhancing, not diminishing, the public square.

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Some interesting points from David Brooks, noting a study by Gentzkow and Shapiro which counters the prevailing assumption that the interne...

How pain impairs cognition

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Ji et al. use an animal model of arthritis pain to show that pain-related cognitive deficits result from amygdala-driven impairment of medi...
Friday, April 23, 2010

Oxytocin enhances social learning as well as empathy.

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From Hurlemann et al. : Oxytocin (OT) is becoming increasingly established as a prosocial neuropeptide in humans with therapeutic potential...