Thursday, September 30, 2010

High income improves life evaluation, but not emotional well-being

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Yet another incisive bit from Kahneman and coworkers : Recent research has begun to distinguish two aspects of subjective well-being. Emoti...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Worm brains N' Us - a hint of the ancestral brain

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Tomer et al. have combined gene expression profiling with image registration to find that the mushroom body of the segmented annelid worm P...
Monday, September 27, 2010

The Willy Street Fair - the 70's still live in Madison, WI....

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Williamson Street in Madison Wisconsin is like a time capsule from the hippie era of the 1970's. Here is a brief collage from the parad...

Choice blindness at the marketplace

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Hall et al. do a nice demonstration of the extent to which we can delude our sensory capacities to justify a choice or preference we have p...
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Friday, September 24, 2010

Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind?

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I'm bouncing the post in the queue for today to bring forward this article by Jaron Lanier , from last Sunday's New York Times Magaz...
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Do social moods predict financial markets, not vice versa?

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The proverb "This too shall pass" , has multiple ancient sources. The version beginning with the Sufi poet Attar of Nishapur has t...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Internet and Society - Swept into Superficiality

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Smallwood reviews Carr's recent book "The Shallows - What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains" As was the case for books, th...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Language about motion causes motion adaptation of our visual cortex.

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Here are some fascinating observations from Dils and Boroditsky, who ask: To what extent is hearing a story about something similar to real...
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Monday, September 20, 2010

Children, Wired: For Better and for Worse

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Today's children are growing very different brains because of their interaction with technology. Baveller et al. review work showing th...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

Aging - How alcohol is good for you

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Numerous studies have shown that non-drinkers tend to die before moderate drinkers. Jonah Lehrer points to a striking (and reassuring to me...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

A Dictionary of the Near Future

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Douglas Coupland has produced a clever and alarming dictionary of the near future (which seems to actually be applying to the present momen...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Men's dance moves that catch a woman's eyes.

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A loyal mindblog follower who occasionally sends me stuff he finds interesting has just forwarded this gem ,  the associated videos are here...
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Differences in brain connectivity drive cognitive differences

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Forstmann et al. do some interesting work on examining pathways that regulate how readily we respond (i.e. decrease response thresholds) t...
Monday, September 13, 2010

The brain's fight against aging

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Numerous studies have documented diminution in sensory and cognitive functions with aging, but very little is known about what is actually h...
Friday, September 10, 2010

Seeking emotional support - effects of oxytocin gene and cultural variation.

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Certain genotypes are expressed in different forms depending upon the harshness/beneficence of social conditions; examples include the serot...
Thursday, September 09, 2010

Learning tricks

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Benedict Carey does a nice summary of what we do and don't know about different approaches to enhancing learning. Take the notion tha...
Wednesday, September 08, 2010

The anxiolytic power of religion

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Inzlicht and Tullett add a bit of information to the growing field of the cognitive science of religion (which examines religious beliefs a...
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Google’s Earth

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Well known author William Gibson (Neuromancer, and its sequels) does a brief NYTimes Op-Ed essay in which he discusses Google. His startin...
Monday, September 06, 2010

Laughter therapy

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The August 30 issue of The New Yorker has an engaging article on Madan Kataria, "The Laughing Guru."  Research in the field of ps...
Friday, September 03, 2010

Language shaping cognition - a followup

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Relevant to today's other post on this topic, a MindBlog reader has just pointed out another good article , from the Sept. 1 New Scient...
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