Monday, September 30, 2013

Francis Poulenc Sonata for piano 4 hands

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Here is the last of the 4 hands pieces offered at a recent house concert/social at my Twin Valley Rd. home in Middleton,WI.

Threads of current debate: narcissism, ills of the world, scientism, brain science

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I want to pass on some of the products of my TOC (tables of contents) scanning that I’m unlikely to develop into full posts, but that might...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Aspects of our musical experience.

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I want to pass on three recent articles I found interesting. The first is a piece by Kawakami in the New York Times on why we like sad musi...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Theory of Mind and the mind of the market

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The financial community has been in a striking tizzy over the fact that the Federal Reserve didn't do what they were predicting, i.e. st...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Franz Schubert Marches caractéristiques, No. 2

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This is second of the three four hands pieces played at a recent house concert at my Twin Valley Rd. home in Middleton, WI.

The joystick years - computer games and grey matter volume

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Sian Lewis summarizes work by Kühn and Gallinat : A new study has used voxel-based morphometry of MRI scans of adult video-game players to...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Clementi Sonata No. 2 in C for piano four hands

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Here is the first of the four hands pieces performed at a concert at my home on Sept. 8.

Compassion - Bridging Practice and Science

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Science magazine has an article by Kupferschmidt pointing to the work of Tania Singer, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cog...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Poulenc Novelette No. 3

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Here is the third of the Poulenc Novelettes, based on a theme by Manuel de Falla, a return to a more sonorous style, but with nice dissonanc...

Virtues of coffee and coffee shops.

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I've been meaning to pass on these two articles that help me justify my addiction to breakfast and noon (but not dinner) coffee. Reynold...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Old farts perform more consistenly on cognitive tasks than younger adults.

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Schmiedek et al. do a demonstration of something we more or less already knew... People often attribute poor performance to having bad d...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

Poulenc Novelette No. 2 - a bit on the wild side

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Poulenc's first two novelettes, the one in C major that I posted yesterday, and today's second novelette in B-flat minor, were compo...

The cognitive benefits of movement reduction.

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This piece by Warburton et al. shows another example of how musical, artistic, or athletic performance can be enhanced by subtle mimicking ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Some mindblog music - Poulenc Novelette No. 1

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Since the beginning of this blog, I've passed on classical piano recordings I make, and I'm going to do the same with some of the pi...
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Video game training enhances cognitive control in older adults

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This work has received a lot of attention (google 'NeuroRacer' to see various accounts), the video game is of the same sort as those...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Political extremism is supported by an illusion of understanding.

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Fernback et. al. start their interesting article with some nice quotes: Bertrand Russell “The opinions that are held with passion are a...
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Monday, September 16, 2013

A pinch of l-dopa enhances learning to suppress excessive fear responses.

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Haaker et al. make an interesting observation: Traumatic events can engender persistent excessive fear responses to trauma reminders tha...
Friday, September 13, 2013

Numerosity is represented in our parietal cortex.

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Our primary sensory cortices are arranged topographically, and Harvey et al. have now tested the speculation that numerosity is also organi...
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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Scientific explanation of our subjective experience.....

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Being a card carrying materialist, I've always felt that our mental life could be explained in physical terms. Although I consider myse...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Language can boost unseen objects into visual awareness.

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From Lupyan et al : Linguistic labels (e.g., “chair”) seem to activate visual properties of the objects to which they refer. Here we inv...