Friday, February 27, 2015

The neurochemistry of music.

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I want to point to an interesting review article by Chanda and Levitin , that summaries studies showing how music engages four of our bodies...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Twitter predicts mortality from heart disease!

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Here is an interesting item from Eichstaedt, Seligman, and collaborators : Hostility and chronic stress are known risk factors for heart di...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Metacognitive mechanisms underlying lucid dreaming.

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Metacognition is the ability to observe, reflect on, and report one's own mental states during wakefulness. Dreaming is not typically ac...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

The neuroscience of motivated cognition.

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I want to point to this interesting open source article by Hughes and Zaki, who review research from social psychology and cognitive neuros...
Monday, February 23, 2015

MindBlog's 9th anniversary

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I realize that I have let MindBlog's 9th birthday slip past without note. The Feb. 6, 2006 post that started the blog, Dangerous Ideas ...
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What is different about the brains of "SuperAgers"

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We all probably know some people well into their 80's and 90's who seem to maintain crystal clear intelligence, presence, and memory...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Training the mind not to wander with brain feedback.

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deBettencourt and collaborators at Princeton University have placed student subjects in an MRI machine while they were performing a sustain...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

An informative genetic grammatical impairment - the biological basis of language

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A fascinating article from van der Lely and Pinker : •Specific language impairment is a heterogeneous family of genetic developmental dis...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Psilocybin as a key to consciousness.

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Michael Pollan offers an engaging article " The Trip Treatment " in the Feb. 9 issue of The New Yorker magazine that describes the...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

A sense of the unfolding digital age.

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I've just spent an hour following web links in the New York Times article on a recent course offered by recently deceased media columni...

Music training offsets decline in speech recognition on aging.

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From Bidelman and Alain : Musicianship in early life is associated with pervasive changes in brain function and enhanced speech-language sk...
Monday, February 16, 2015

MindBlog experiments with a brain enhancer.

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I have done two previous posts on my personal experiments with compounds meant to promote longevity or vitality. The first dealt with res...
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Friday, February 13, 2015

How musical sound becomes rewarding - predictions and the brain

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I would like to point out this review in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Seeing more than the summary below does require a subscription or ot...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Changing bodies changes minds.

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A fascinating review by Maister et al.  notes studies showing that inducing illusory ownership over the body of a different race, age, or g...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

MindBlog's other lives - a piano concert

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I thought I would share with MindBlog readers this video made at my piano recital last Sunday in Fort Lauderdale by Rex Coston, an amazing 9...
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Watching large scale brain network interactions in cognitive control.

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We frequently face situations in which we must override our ongoing behavior to react to a situational demand, a process that is impaired in...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Causal emergence in our brains

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I recently came across an important paper that I didn't spot when it first appeared in 2013. Tononi and collaborators question the comm...
Monday, February 09, 2015

Expensive drugs work better than cheap ones.

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Bakalar points to work published in the journal Neurology that found that when Parkinson's disease patients were told they were testin...
Friday, February 06, 2015

Computers judge personality more accurately than humans.

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This is a bit scary, from Youyou et al. : Judging others’ personalities is an essential skill in successful social living, as personality i...
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Thursday, February 05, 2015

Doubting global warming?

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My colleague John Young, who is a member of the Univ. of Wisconsin Chaos and Complexity Seminar group I join when I am in Madison, circulate...