Tuesday, November 08, 2011

When it's an error to mirror...

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Mimicry and imitation can facilitate cultural learning, maintenance of culture, and group cohesion, and individuals must competently select ...
Monday, November 07, 2011

Booze and our brains.

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This is all I needed!..... yet another reason to chill on my happy hour Martini. I keep reminding myself that, in addition to yielding a p...
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Friday, November 04, 2011

Dynamnic views of MindBlog

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Some time ago I put a link you can see at the right top of this MindBlog home page to "DYNAMIC VIEWS OF MINDBLOG."  A reminder ema...
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Economic inequality is linked to biased self-perception

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A common view is that westerners are more likely to be individualists who seek personal success and uniqueness, and thus self-enhance - (i.e...
Thursday, November 03, 2011

Climate change and human crisis

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In case you need anything further to depress you about our impending climate changes, Zhang et al. do a more fine-grained analysis of the e...
Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Narcissistic Leaders and Group Performance

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Nevica et al. point to yet another case where reality is at odds with perceptions: Although narcissistic individuals are generally perceiv...
Tuesday, November 01, 2011

The evolution of cognition

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It is now commonly recognized that high-level cognitive function is not limited to primate lineages and like many other traits, is shaped by...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Very brief meditation training produces brain changes associated with positive emotions.

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It is known that the ratio of left frontal to right frontal lobe activation is relatively higher in individuals with higher positive affec...
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Friday, October 28, 2011

Adolescent brain changes while viewing media violence

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Strenziok et al. (open access) note a habituation and desensitization of adolescent emotional network brain responses to TV violence, which...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

A Fauré Nocturne - new born chicks would like it....

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I'm finding some of the Gabriel Fauré Noctures very pleasant. Here is Nocturne no. 3, op. 33. And, the abstract following the video is r...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Our "divided brain" - an animated tutorial.

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A loyal mindblog reader has pointed me to an animated lecture, by psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist, that is quite fun to watch. It s...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Women's memory enhanced by lower male voice pitch.

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Women are attracted to low male voices, and a prevailing idea is that this is relevant to mate selection. Kevin Allen and colleagues now sh...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Human genes still evolve rapidly

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A Harvard group has found evolution in response to natural selection in a contemporary human population, showing a dramatic decrease in age...
Friday, October 21, 2011

The brain's fountain of youth

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Williams points to an article that suggests that Dracula may have gotten it right. Young blood can restore an aging body. Giving young bl...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

"Neurotrash"

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In The Chronicle of Higher Education Marc Parry notes the crusade of Raymond Tallis to throw out the "Neurotrash." This is the go...
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Brief neuroscience video-tutorials

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I recently received an email from Aki Nikolaidis, a neuroscience graduate student at the University of Illinois, asking me to have a look so...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The science of irrationality.

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As a followup to yesterday's post on how common sense, ideology and intuition lead us astray in our attempts to fix social problems - wh...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The science of psychological change

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In the Oct 14 issue of Science Magazine Geoffrey L. Cohen reviews Timothy Wilson's new book "Redirect: The Surprising New Science...
Monday, October 17, 2011

Dissolution of the social contract

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I've been meaning to point to a very cogent essay by Marmor and Mashaw on why conditions for recovery from the great depression of the ...
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Friday, October 14, 2011

Differences in reality monitoring correlate with prefrontal cortex variations

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Here is an intriguing bit of work from Buda et al. : Much recent interest has centered on understanding the relationship between brain stru...
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