Thursday, May 30, 2013

When more support is less....

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Finkel and Fitzsimons , whose work I mentioned in a post several years ago, do a review of studies showing that the children of parents who ...

Giant, Glowing Plastic Brain on Wheels

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Even though I'm usually a curmudgeon about brain hype,  Obama's Brain initiative, etc., I have to admire the enthusiasm and persiste...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

How we work: 'brain waves' versus modern phrenology

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Alexander et al. have analyzed data from magnetoencephalogram (MEG), electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrocorticogram (ECoG), focusing on ...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Training our ability to make decisions on uncertain outcomes.

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When making decisions, we often retrieve a limited set of items from memory. These retrieved items provide evidence for competing options. F...
Friday, May 24, 2013

Renewing our brain's ability to make decisions.

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Our dopamine neurons, which enable enable our brains to make better choices, based on outcomes, gradually die off as part of the normal agin...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The limits of empathy

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I thought I would follow up the Monday's post on well being, kindness, happiness and all that good stuff by noting a piece on how feel-g...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Transferring from Google Reader to Feedly

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I've just finished editing and culling the "Other Mind Blogs" list in the right column of this blog.  If you are now getting t...
Monday, May 20, 2013

On well-being - An orgy of good energy last week in Madison, Wisconsin.

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In spite of slightly flippant title for this post, I really do believe this is good stuff. The Dali Lama paid a two day visit to Madison Wi...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

On continuing MindBlog - Drawing personal structure from sampling the digital stream.

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The responses in comments and emails to my ‘scratching my head about mindblog’ post are telling me that my small contributions are valued,...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Deric’s MindBlog spends time in the past...in the future?

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The past:  I’ve been spending the past two weeks in a former life. I was in Seattle last week to attend the annual meeting of ARVO (Assoc....
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Monday, May 06, 2013

MindBlog in Seattle this week - hiatus in posts

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There will be a hiatus in MindBlog posts for awhile. I'm spending this week at an ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmo...
Friday, May 03, 2013

Riding other people's coattails.

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Another interesting bit from Psychological Science : Two laboratory experiments and one dyadic study of ongoing relationships of romantic pa...
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Thursday, May 02, 2013

Willpower and Abundance - The case for less.

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I wanted to pass on some clips from Tim Wu's sane commentary in The New Republic on the recent Diamandis and Kotler book " Abundan...
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Overearning

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Here is an interesting study from Hsee et al on our tendency to keeping working to earn more than we need for happiness, at the expense of ...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The slippery slope of fear

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LeDoux makes some useful comments on confusion one encounters in studies of fear, especially involving the amygdala, a clip: ‘Fear’ is used...
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Monday, April 29, 2013

Lessons learned from a Chaos and Comlexity seminar.

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For ~ 15 years I have participated in the weekly Chaos and Complexity seminar at the Univ. of Wisconsin organized by physics professor Clint...
Friday, April 26, 2013

Teleological reasoning about nature: intentional design or relational perspectives?

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Ojalehto et al. offer an interesting analysis of assumptions about our reasoning about natural phenomena. Some slightly edited clips from ...
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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Brain activity correlating with future antisocial activity.

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From Aharoni et al. : Identification of factors that predict recurrent antisocial behavior is integral to the social sciences, criminal j...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Body posture modulates action perception.

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From Zimmermann et al : Recent studies have highlighted cognitive and neural similarities between planning and perceiving actions. Given th...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Where our brains compute musical reward.

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Yet another fascinating chunk from Zatorre and collaborators : We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate neural processes...