Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Aging - predictors of cognitive abilities.

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The Oct. 31 issue of Science Magazine has a special section of articles on the aging brain. I point in particular to Underwood's articl...
Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Liberals and conservatives have different smell preferences.

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A post faintly appropriate to this election day that is deciding the outcomes of very polarized contests of liberals and conservatives... Ar...
Monday, November 03, 2014

Memory reactivation during rest supports upcoming learning of related content.

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I have found that a brief period of rest, around 20 minutes or so, after I have worked on learning the notes and fingering of a new piano p...
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Saturday, November 01, 2014

A mechanism underlying our current political paralysis

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Thomas Edsall points to the fascinating work of Berkeley graduate students Broockman and Ahler, who puncture the common assumption that a l...
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Friday, October 31, 2014

Neural and cognitive characteristics of extraordinary altruists.

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I pass on this fascinating piece from Marsh et al. , who find that a larger than average size of the right amygdala in extreme altruists who...
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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Anti-aging interventions: from elixirs to fasting.

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de Cabo et al. have done a useful review of different approaches to delaying or reversing aging, and I pass on their abstract and two nice ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Update on ‘fitness age’ calculators…

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The research group that originated the fitness age calculator that I mentioned in a post a year ago has tweaked their online calculator ju...

Brain resting state network stimulation for psychiatric and neurological diseases

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Fox et al. do a survey of therapy using either invasive approaches, such as deep brain stimulation (DBS), or noninvasive approaches, such a...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

The amygdala as the hub of three brain networks supporting our social life.

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I pass on this very useful summary by Bickart et al. that summarizes brain connectivity experiments in rodents, monkeys, and humans to deve...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Breath counting as an objective behavioral measure of mindfulness.

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Another fascinating piece of work from Richard Davidson's group at the University of Wisconsin, evaluating breath counting as a potenti...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

The power of play - Portal2 better than brain training software?

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My son, who does what I consider to be magic with his coding of internet commercial websites (see Praxisis.com ) has been playing computer g...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Let a Hundred McMansions Bloom

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The Dong Dianhu Manor housing development west of Shanghai
Friday, October 24, 2014

How to chill on aggression...get blood glucose levels up.

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Here is an interesting and quirky piece by Bushman et al. that has been languishing in my queue of potential posts for quite a while: Peop...

Happiness and well-being sources.

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I’m passing on three items from my queue of potential posts that touch on well-being and happiness. First, of course, there’s an App for th...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Speaking out in a group correlates with gender.

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The effectiveness of group decision-making depends on whether the best informed members actually contribute to the discussion. Coffman does...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Scientific evidence does not support anti-aging claims of the brain game industry.

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MindBlog has done numerous posts on brain training games as possible antidotes to cognitive decline in the elderly. (I've played with bo...

Humans and robots.

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A recent issue of Science magazine has a special section of articles on the social life of robots. The introduction by Stone and Lavine pro...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Pianists’ brains are different from everyone else...

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Because I'm a pianist who started lessons at age 6 and now usually give two concerts a year, I'm always fascinated by articles like ...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Vitamin D prevents cognitive decline

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...in aging rats, to be sure. Work like the following piece from my colleagues at the University of Wisconsin reinforces my determination t...
Friday, October 17, 2014

How culture shapes spatial conceptions of time - Is your past in front of, or behind you?

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A interesting perspective from Fuente et al. on spatial conceptions of time. Some clips from their article: Across many of the world’s lan...
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