Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Nightclub owner? Use perfume...

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Here is an amusing bit ...not surprisingly, smells in the environment change behavior. The summary from Science Alert: In nightclubs, bod...
Monday, May 30, 2011

Control your spotlight

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Here are excerpts from Jonah Lehrer's contribution to the Edge.org question "What scientific concept would improve everybody'...
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Friday, May 27, 2011

Predicting the conscious experience of other people

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Here is a fascinating abstract for one of the lectures, by Geraint Rees and colleagues, at the upcoming 15th annual meeting of the Associat...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

Musical experience enhances hearing in the aging brain

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Parbery-Clark et al. perk me up a bit with this bit of work, suggesting that without my musical training, my increasing difficulty in heari...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Guilt motivates cooperation

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An article by Chang et al. in Cell examines neural, psychological, and economic bases of guilt aversion. They use fMRI during a game involv...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

A correlate of our distractability in our brain's parietal cortex

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From Kanai et al. : We all appreciate that some of our friends and colleagues are more distractible than others. This variability can be ca...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Is happiness overrated?

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John Tierney does a nice article on Martin Seligman, the founder of the positive psychology movement, who has modified his views since the ...
Friday, May 20, 2011

Language processing in our visual brain

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Bedny et al. make the fascinating observation that some regions of the visual cortex of congenitally blind people become active in processi...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Twitter/Facebook/Our Brain

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I recommend checking out this entertaining exchange ,  also these comments on whether Facebook helps or hinders offline friendships.
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No sleep, better mood...

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It is known that sleep deprivation leads to exaggerated neural and behavioral reactivity to negative, aversive experiences, but some patient...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Academics and health of minority students improved by brief social-belonging intervention

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From Walton and Cohen , who briefly presented to half of the students in the study a narrative that framed social adversity in school as sha...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Nice guys finish first...

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Here is a nice compilation and review of the messages in several books I have mentioned in previous posts.   David Brooks does his usual in...
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Cultural attractors

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I'm not exactly breaking any speed records getting through my scan of the responses to Edge.org's annual question of the year - &quo...
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Monday, May 16, 2011

Testosterone and economic risk aversion.

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Here is a curious finding ... people with low or high levels of testosterone are less aversive to economic risk: Testosterone is positively...
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Education, religion, and wealth

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An interesting graphic from yesterday's New York Times Magazine.  (X axis is percentage of college graduates, Y axis is percentage of h...
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Friday, May 13, 2011

Black Swan Technology

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Vinod Khosla's answer to the Edge.org question "What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?": T...
Thursday, May 12, 2011

Dirty Liberals!

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Helzer and Pazarro make some interesting associations between reminders of physical cleanliness and moral and political attitudes. Their abs...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

A monkey could paint that well!... apparently not

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Maybe abstract art is more accessible than I thought...From Hawley-Dolan and Winner : Museumgoers often scoff that costly abstract expressi...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

New happiness research

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While I seldom mention (and am remiss in even reading) other blogs,  this item in the Freakonomics blog caught my attention. It starts with...

Brain Buzz, a 9 volt battery and some wires...

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Here in an engaging review by Douglas Fox, of efforts to enhance learning and intelligence by transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS...
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