Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The map in our head is oriented north.

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Interesting observations from Julia Frankenstein et al.: We examined how a highly familiar environmental space—one’s city of residence—is re...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Early maternal support predicts larger brain volumes at school age.

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Luby et al. offer a compelling study showing the importance of maternal nuturing in young humans.Maternal support is predictive of hippocam...
Monday, February 27, 2012

How to get the rich to share their marbles.

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Jonathan Haidt does a nice job of bringing contemporary relevance to Tomasello and colleagues' work comparing and contrasting the soci...
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Friday, February 24, 2012

Cognitive dissonance reduction in conservative and liberal Christians

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Ross et al. offer an interesting study showing how the answers of conservative and liberal Christians to the question "What would a co...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Desperately seeking simplicity.

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The Harvard Business Review blog network has an article by Chris Zook , who is co-head of the Global Strategy Practice at Bain & Company...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

An App for your anxiety...

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Continuing in the thread of yesterdays post about a science App, I should mention the blip of interest (and controversy) over the putative ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Science of minus 10 Biology iPad App

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I've been cruising the annual best science and engineering visualization competition sponsored every year by Science Magazine and the N...
Monday, February 20, 2012

Our brains as prediction machines - a unified view of mind and action

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Anything Andy Clark writes is totally worth reading (I used his charming essay "I am John's brain" when I first began teaching...
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Friday, February 17, 2012

Our brain's grasp of metaphors grounded in perception?

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Theories of grounded cognition suggest that knowledge is represented in modal systems derived from perception (rather than abstract brain co...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Negative social interactions and body inflammation.

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Many studies have proven that social relationships influence our physical health. People who are more socially integrated live longer, and a...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

How psychedelics affect our brain - unconstrained cognition

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Carhart-Harris et al. have done an interesting study showing that psilocybin decreases surrogate markers for neuronal activity [cerebral bl...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Life is a digital code.

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Here is a nicely done precis of a crucial bit of our intellectual history from science written by Matt Ridley, his answer to " What i...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Testosterone, digit ratio, and abstract reasoning ability

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Brañas-Garza and Aldo Rustichini suggest that perhaps higher testosterone market traders are more successful not only because they are grea...
Friday, February 10, 2012

Us vs. them in context.

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As I scan the tables of contexts of journals for items that might be appropriate for MindBlog, I am majorly influenced by a catchy title an...
Thursday, February 09, 2012

Even if the juice is a placebo...

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I thought the stuff on the oxytocin spray in the previous post was a hoot, and so dashed off the post on receiving a colleague's email o...

Juice up your Valentine's day!

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I've done numerous posts on oxytocin effects on us humans (enter oxytocin in the search box in the left column). Generally, it makes us ...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Don't go to bed angry...

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Several studies have shown that sleep enhances emotional memories. Baran et al. show that maybe its better let anger keep you awake at nigh...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Our connectomes 'R Us?

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I have received by now several offers from Houghton Mifflin publishers to send a reviewer's copy of Sebastian Seung's "Connecto...
Monday, February 06, 2012

Massage therapy suppresses expression of inflammatory genes after exercise..

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I've been getting regular deep tissue structural massage for years, and continue to be amazed at how good it makes me feel. This report ...
Friday, February 03, 2012

The good life can be a killer.

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I've enjoyed the recent piece on our dysfunctional modern community structures by Jane Brodie (who got her journalism degree at the Uni...