Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Neural (MRI) correlates of effective learning.

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Here is a rather fascinating prospective use of MRI technology - to distinguish people who might become the most effective decision makers a...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The speed-accuracy tradeoff in the elderly brain.

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Sigh...even more information on my aging brain. The fact that I and other older folks take longer to respond when a task is presented can mo...
Monday, November 28, 2011

How not to revert to habit under stress...

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A stressful situation can have the effect of making us actually less able to flexibly cope with the issue at hand, because we tend under str...
Friday, November 25, 2011

A nap enhances relational memory

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Lau et al. make the following interesting observations: It is increasingly evident that sleep strengthens memory. However, it is not clear...
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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Brief musical training in kids enhances other high level cognitive skills.

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Article like this one from Moreno et al. make me think that my life long piano practice may be part of the reason I'm still hanging ont...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Quantitating how positive emotions increase longevity.

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Increasing general well-being of citizens is usually taken to be the the goal of government and public policy, and MindBlog has pointed to n...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Compatibility of Neuroscience and Free Will? - a further discussion

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Because several people have mentioned a recent NYTimes piece on neuroscience and free will to me, I've decided to pass on its basic poi...
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Monday, November 21, 2011

How to qualify as a social partner.

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Most theoretical models for human social interactions explore relatively simple scenarios to allow for analytical solutions. Rockenbacha and...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Improve your motor memory!

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Here is an bit of work Zhang et al. on consolidation of motor memory that more clearly confirms what I know from my own experience of trying...
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

MindBlog back in Fort Lauderdale, FL

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I'm tired from three days driving with my two Abyssinian cats from Madison WI to my condo in Fort Lauderdale, FL (posts have been coming...

Resonating with others: changes in motor cortex

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Individual concepts of self, or self-construals, vary across cultures. In collectivist cultures such as Japan, individuals adopt an interdep...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Brain areas that increase in size with social network size.

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The number of individuals that a single person can keep close track of is generally taken to be roughly 150 ("Dunbar's number), whi...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Synaptic switch to social status in medial prefrontal cortex.

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Wang et al. have determined the social hierarchy within groups of mice by using multiple behavioral tests and find that the social hierarch...
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Monday, November 14, 2011

On understanding our brains...

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I thought I would pass on some chunks of the lead editorial in the Nov. 4 Science Magazine, written by two senior establishment neuroscient...
Friday, November 11, 2011

Where in the brain does 'negative surprise' happen?

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Egner points to an article by Alexander and Brown that provides an integrated model of how the brain deals with the non-occurrence of an e...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Insensitivity to social reputation in autism.

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Further characterization of how social cognition is changed by the autism disorder - evidence for distinctive brain systems that mediate th...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Our resting brain networks can be formed by multiple architectures.

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There has been a lot of interest lately (see Jonah's Lehrer's nice summary ) in the resting, default, or 'mind wandering' st...
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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