Monday, June 30, 2014

Emotional contagion through social networks

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I have frequently noticed that simply reading the barrage of negative news in the daily New York Times about the myriad things in our world ...

Mind reading has to be taught.

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A review by Heyes and Frith notes how our learning to read minds is like learning to read print, except that it occurs much earlier in our ...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Stress chemistry predicts age-related cognitive decline.

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Anderson et al. show, in studies on rats, that elevated hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) activity impairs not only hippocampal function...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Megascience efforts and the brain.

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Grillner offers a commentary on the current megascience efforts (costing gazillions of dollars) to develop infrastructure for tools, model...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Executive control training reduces rumination.

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Rumination (thinking repetitively and passively about negative emotions, focusing on symptoms of distress) is a maladaptive form of self-foc...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Distinguishing the 50 united states with a tightness-looseness measure.

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Harrington and Gelfand offer a parsimonious mechanism for the striking cultural and political differences between the 50 United States by s...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Early music training enhances cognitive capacities in adults.

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Further experiments on the profound effect that early musical training has on executive functioning in adults. The article has a useful int...

Monday music - Debussy Nocturne

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I pass on this Debussy Nocturne I recorded at my Twin Valley Middleton home last week, after playing it for a local music group on Tuesday e...
Friday, June 20, 2014

On the precipice - a "Majority-Minority" America.

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Sigh.... another chilling vision of America's future from Craig and Richeson . Increasing polarization of groups: The U.S. Census Burea...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Dopamine receptor genes and independent versus interdependent social orientation.

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Kitayama et al. make yet another stab at finding correlates of the often cited distinction of European American (more independent) and Asia...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Speed reading apps blow away comprehension.

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Schotter et al. make a demonstration that being able to glance back during reading (not allowed under speed reading conditions) significant...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Watching the physical correlate of memory improvement during sleep.

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Euston and Steenland do a perspective on nice work by Yang et al. that probes the role of sleep in altering mouse brain structures. I pas...
Monday, June 16, 2014

When being a control-freak doesn't help....

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Bocanegra and Hommel note limits to the usefulness of cognitive control, showing, in particular, how overcontrol (induced by task instructi...

Another Poulenc offering: Improvisation No. 13

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Another Monday morning post of a recent piano recording I've done.   
Friday, June 13, 2014

Brain initiative meets physics….Opps!

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Scientists leading the much-heralded Obama Brain Initiative initially providing $100 million (now NIH is seeking 4.5 billion for their part...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Gratitude reduces economic impatience.

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Whenever I come across yet another self-help laundry list of useful tricks for feeling better, and try a few, I repeatedly find that briefly...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Childhood bullying predicts adult inflammation.

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How is this for a chilling finding? Childhood bullying leaves bullies with lower, and victims with higher, levels of chronic inflammation th...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Tonics for a long life?

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I've recently come across two articles relevant to life extension (work done with mice and worms, to be sure, but a human who reads thes...
Monday, June 09, 2014

Rapidity of human brain and muscle evolution - the downside of smarts?

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Roberts does a summary of fascinating work by Bozak et al . He sets the context:  Somewhat narcissistically, one of the spectacular chan...
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A Monday musical offering - Poulenc Improvisation No. 7

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This is recorded on the Steinway B at my Twin Valley Rd. residence in Middleton, WI.  I used to regularly post my piano work on MindBlog, an...