Tuesday, November 30, 2010

This is your brain on metaphors

›
A loyal mindblog reader has pointed me to an essay by one of my heroes, Robert Sapolsky, written for The Stone, a blog hosted by The New Yo...
1 comment:
Monday, November 29, 2010

Brain clutter - what's left undone lingers on

›
In the editor's choice of the Nov. 19 Science, Gilber Chin does a summary of recent work by Masicampo and Baumeister showing that unco...
2 comments:
Friday, November 26, 2010

Social cognition in reptiles

›
A MindBlog reader referred me to this interesting post by a blog, " The Thoughtful Animal ," that I had been unaware of, and have...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

Becoming a GPS zombie - eroding your brain.

›
Almost every day I get an "I just came across your blog, and thought you might be interested in....." which is basically a request...
2 comments:
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Trouble with numbers? Try zapping your brain.

›
Kodosh et al. in the Nov. 4 issue of Current Biology ( noted by ScienceNow ) report that administering a small electrical charge (transcran...
2 comments:
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Predicting the future with web search queries

›
Goel et al. find that online activity at any moment in time not only provides a snapshot of the instantaneous interests, concerns, and inte...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Attention span and focus - problem/not a problem?

›
I have done several posts on how heavy computer and internet use might nudge our brain processes (in either a positive or detrimental way),...
1 comment:

Greedy Geezers

›
Apparently my demographic group (seniors on Medicare) radically changed its voting behavior in the recent midterm elections, and is very opp...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Using invisible visual signals to see things.

›
Di Luca et al. have done an ingenious experiment that demonstrates that an invisible signal can be recruited as a cue for perceptual appear...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

How life experiences alter what our genes do.

›
It has been a frustration that we are unable to pinpoint causative genetic effects in many complex diseases and behavioral abnormalities. Ma...
3 comments:
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Tiny touches of the tongue - the elegance of cats.

›
I've learned something about my constant companions, two Abyssinian cats named Marvin and Melvin.  I've always wondered how the rapi...
1 comment:
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

A wandering mind is an unhappy mind.

›
Killingsworth and Gilbert report a fascinating study in the Nov. 12 issue of Science Magazine. They developed a smartphone technology to sa...
7 comments:
Monday, November 15, 2010

Great pianists of the 20th century

›
I have to pass on this wonderful video on great pianists of the 20th century. Horowitz doing the Carmen variations is astounding.

Color of ambient light directly influences our brain's emtional processing

›
When I started my first research laboratory 42 years ago, one of my first actions was to replace all of the standard fluorescent light fixtu...
1 comment:
Friday, November 12, 2010

Reducing pain by touching ourselves

›
Interesting observations from Kammers et al. The abstract: Acute peripheral pain is reduced by multisensory interactions at the spinal lev...
3 comments:

How the leopard got its spots...

›
I pass on this interesting bit from the Nov. 5 Science Magazine's 'Editor's Choice" section describing work by Allen et al....
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Another reason exercise inhibits aging - boost of muscle stem cells.

›
Work by Shefer et al. suggests why exercisers have better muscle function than nonexercisers as they age. It turns out that endurance exerc...
2 comments:
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Dancing Scientists

›
In a previous life, I was a dancer, taking classes in modern dance technique and improvisation, and was actually in a few performances.  Thi...
1 comment:

Robust exchanges on MindBlog

›
Just as I have been following the commentaries (19 when I last looked) on the topic of last Wednesday's post " Our minds extend be...
Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Neural signature in the brain of skilled negotiators

›
Read Montague's group studies brain correlates of how we manipulate other people's beliefs about ourselves for gain. A review by Bh...
2 comments: