Monday, October 14, 2013

Distinctive brain correlates of brief compassion meditation.

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This article by Hassenkamp provides a very useful integrative review of, and links to, several articles on brain correlates of mindfulness,...
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Sunday, October 13, 2013

Is music the key to success?

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I'm passing this on immediately after reading it. While I have done numerous posts on how music training influences brain development, ...
Friday, October 11, 2013

Oxytocin dilates our pupils and enhances emotion detection

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Interesting work from Leknes et al. : Sensing others’ emotions through subtle facial expressions is a highly important social skill. We in...
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Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Our sense of fairness changes with weak electric stimulation of our prefrontal cortex.

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Fascinating work from Ruff et al : All known human societies have maintained social order by enforcing compliance with social norms. The b...
Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Psychedelic drugs cause cortical desynchronization

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From Muthukumaraswamy et al. , small wonder that it doesn't all hang together during the psychedelic experience: Psychedelic drugs pr...
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Monday, October 07, 2013

Poulenc Improvisation No. 15

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This piece is a homage to Edith Piaf.  The last of a series of Poulenc recordings I have done this year.  
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Better memory with less default mode activity

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I've done a number of posts on our default mode versus attentional networks (a review is here , for example). Here is the summary and ab...
Friday, October 04, 2013

Evilicious humans, hard-wired for war?

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"Evilicious" is the title of a new book self published by Marc Hauser, the Harvard Psychologist forced to resign his position afte...
Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Information sharing as a measure of brain consciousness

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King et al. make measurements they suggest are a signature of conscious state in awake but noncommunicating patients. I pass on the summar...
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Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Early emergence of mature brain alarm circuits in maternally deprived children

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Many studies have shown adverse effects of various kinds of childhood deprivation or abuse, with maternal deprivation being one of the most ...
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...