Friday, March 29, 2013

Brain activity associated with the "Cocktail Party Effect."

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Zion et al. do interesting experiments, with an array of sub-dural electrodes implanted in surgical epilepsy patients, to show what is happ...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

The perils of perfectionism, and the world we are losing.

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I want to mention one of the many items in my queue of articles for potential posts that I have neglected so far.  Vgeny Morozov does a p...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Ambivalence and Body Movement

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Schneider et al. make interesting observations about circulation correlations between our thoughts and body movements. We sway more from s...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

If you use Google Reader to follow Deric's MindBlog, please read on....

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This blog has ~2,500 RSS subscribers. As I write this, 2,240 subscribers are obtaining the feed via Feedfetcher, which is how Google grabs ...
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Monday, March 25, 2013

Are there trendy parts of the brain?

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Behrens et al. do an interesting analysis, asking: Are there really trendy parts of the brain? Or does each scientist falsely believe the...
Friday, March 22, 2013

A Cornucopia of Mind Blog sites.

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Scientific American has announced that its daughter magazine Scientific American Mind has set up a Blogs site that lists a number of psyc...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

The brain basis of our superiority illusion.

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One of the most robustly documented findings of psychology is the "optimism" bias, which leads us to put rose-colored glasses on p...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Would Tarzan believe in God?

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Some clips from K onika Banerjee and Paul Bloom : Would someone raised without exposure to religious views nonetheless come to believe in...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Negativity bias and political ideology

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I've just received a reviewer's copy of an upcoming article in Brain and Behavioral Science in the vein of several MindBlog posts m...
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Monday, March 18, 2013

Reversal of hearing decline with aging.

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It is known that life-long musical experience partially offsets age-related neural timing delays. Such delays make it harder to process spee...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

How to dress to say it is wrong to be gay!

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I had to pass this on..... FABULOUS! The Pope Emeritus, wearing a fabulous vintage chiffon-lined Dior gold lame gown over a silk Vera W...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Does cannabis use cause lower IQ?

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Rogeberg offers a critique of a recent suggestion by Meyer et. al. of a neurotoxic effect of cannabis on develo...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Observing regulatory connections correlating with emotion control during transition to adolescence.

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Interesting work from Gee et al. showing some brain changes that correlate with the inhibition of emotional reactivity that occurs during h...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

How do alligators get errections?

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I couldn't resist passing on this Discoblog pointer to Kelly's article . Most birds, reptiles, and mammals have penises that bec...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Anti-aging drugs - Clarification on Resveratrol and SIRT1 activators

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Resveratrol, the natural compound in red wine, and other small molecules are allosteric activators of SIRT1, an enzyme with roles in many ...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

The mental cost of cognitive enhancement.

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There has been quite a bit of interest lately in the prospect of enhancing various brain operations by the use of trans-cranial electrical s...
Friday, March 08, 2013

And you thought you knew the data on wealth inequality?

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I found this a jaw-dropping clarification of wealth inequality in the U.S.
Thursday, March 07, 2013

Can the Catholic Church evolve?

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Maureen Dowd discusses gay author Colin Toibin’s “The Testament of Mary,” a one-woman show with Fiona Shaw previewing later this month on B...
Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Neural mechanisms of stress vulnerability and resilience.

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Two interesting papers in the Journal of Neuroscience  deal with what is happening to nerve cells in mouse brains as they either do or don...
Tuesday, March 05, 2013

In praise of the unexamined, unlived life?

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I was sufficiently interested by two reviews of a new book by British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips (“Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived L...