Friday, January 31, 2014

The myth of cognitive decline with aging? Yes and No....

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Offering something of an antidote to the drumbeat of articles measuring cognitive declines on again, Ramscar et al. (open source) suggest ...
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Most published scientific results are false.

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I would highly recommend reading this article by George Johnson , which points in particular to the work of John P. A. Ioannidis, a kind of ...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Mindfulness has so totally gone mainstream…..

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Mindfulness at Davos Mindfulness - the Time Magazine cover story

Enriched environments enhance adult brain plasticity.

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I learned much of my neuroscience at tea time in Hubel and Wiesel's laboratory at Harvard Medical School during my post-doc days in the ...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

How inactivity changes the brain

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Here is yet another sobering note for couch potatoes. Lack of exercise (in rats) causes undesirable remodeling of the brain. Gretchen Reyno...
Monday, January 27, 2014

The liberal illusion of uniqueness

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Bill Clinton is reported to have complained that getting Democrats to agree on a course of action was like herding cats, while the Republica...
Friday, January 24, 2014

The Kerfuffle over whether men and women's brains are different.

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Nothing kicks up a firestorm in the Neuroscience blogosphere like talk of sex differences in brain architecture. Within days of PNAS's e...
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Thursday, January 23, 2014

Bodily maps of emotions.

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Nummenmaa and collaborators , from several universities in Finland, propose that our emotions are represented in our somatosensory system as...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

The morning morality effect.

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Here is an interesting tidbit from Kouchaki1 and Smith : Are people more moral in the morning than in the afternoon? We propose that the ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

The milliseconds of a choice - Watching your mind when it matters.

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This is actually a post about mindfulness, in reaction to Dan Hurley's article describing how contemporary applications of the ancient ...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Beauty at the ballot box.

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From White et al.: Why does beauty win out at the ballot box? Some researchers have posited that it occurs because people ascribe generally...
Friday, January 17, 2014

Signals from inside and outside our bodies in self consciousness

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Olaf Blanke (whose work on projecting ourselves outside our bodies I've mentioned previously ) and collaborators extend their studies ...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

A reason for the power of prayer.

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Friesea and Wänke find one source of the power of prayer that is not supernatural: it enhances self control by buffering self-control deple...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Left spatial neglect goes with neglecting the “Left Side” of time.

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An interesting observation from Saj et al. : Previous research suggests that people construct mental time lines to represent and reason abo...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

How the brains of virtuosic pianists are different...

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Because I'm a performing classical pianist (in fact, giving a concert on Feb. 9 in Fort Lauderdale, my snowbird roost from mid-October t...
Monday, January 13, 2014

The social life of our genes - the devastating effects of social isolation

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David Dobbs has done a broad and accessible review of how completely the expression of the genes regulating behavior are controlled by the ...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Social Darwinism isn't dead - the rich really do think they are different...

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An engaging piece by Matthew Hutson in Slate points to work by Kraus and Keltner . Some clips: ...In 2012 the top 0.01 percent of househ...
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Thursday, January 09, 2014

Watching our brain remembering something.

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This is kind of neat! Staresinaa et al. observe a part of our brain working at remembering something while we go on about our further activ...
Wednesday, January 08, 2014

The "being happy" stress-out.

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Oliver Burkeman (the author of “The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking”) does an engaging article on how del...
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Oxytocin enhances brain function in children with autism.

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Fascinating observations from Gordon et al , who find that that intranasal administration of oxytocin enhances activity in the brain for soc...