Thursday, April 30, 2015

The most clever crow yet....

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MindBlog has done posts on a raven making a tool , an urban crow with street smarts , and now I pass on a video that a friend alerted me to,...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Effortless awareness: Linking subjective experience with brain activity during focused meditation with real-time fMRI

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Garrison and collaborators , whose work I have referenced in a previous post and also at the end of my "Upstairs/Downstairs" web...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Improving vision in older adults.

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I'm now a Fort Lauderdale, Florida resident (except for 5 months of spring and summer in Madison WI.), and have several friends 85 and ...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Emotion is a component of the earliest stages of perception.

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Emotions and perceptions are generally assumed to be separate and parallel realms of the mind. Topolinski et al. show to the contrary that ...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Subliminal learning can nudge future control decisions.

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A dichotomy is proposed by most dual-system approaches to cognition (as, for example, in Kahneman's 2011 book "Thinking, fast and s...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Mind wandering and mental autonomy.

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I'm on my third reading of a dense open access paper by Thomas Metzinger in Frontiers in Psychology titled "The myth of cognitive ...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

The evolution of gender effects on empathy.

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Christov-Moore et al. offer a review making the point that differences in the capacity for empathy between males and females have deep evol...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Observing leadership emergence through interpersonal brain synchronization.

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Interesting work from Jiang et al. , who show that show that interpersonal neural synchronization is significantly higher between leaders an...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Glycogen recovery after exercise: junk food as good as sport supplements

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I note this article because one of its authors, Chuck Dumke, now at the University of Montana, worked in my vision research laboratory at t...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Your friends know how long you will live.

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An interesting study from Jackson et al. analyzing data from an east coast cohort of 600 people observed in the 1930s through 2013: Althou...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Positive and negative emotions - valence is not value

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Having done several recent posts on positive emotions,  and given the continuing rise of the "Be Happy" industry with its Be Happy...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

What happens in Vagus - compassion, positive emotion, vagal tone, and respiratory sinus arrhythmia,

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The 10th cranial nerve, the vagus nerve, is distinctive to mammals and supports social engagement and nurturing behaviors as well as feeding...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

The science of mind wandering.

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I want to pass on this reference to an Ann. Rev. of Psychology article by Smallwood and Schooler, an extensive review and description of mi...
Monday, April 13, 2015

Manipulating moral decisions by exploiting eye gaze.

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Here is a fascinating piece of work from Pärnamets et al. : Eye gaze is a window onto cognitive processing in tasks such as spatial memor...
Friday, April 10, 2015

The Apple Watch will be making us more sociable and human??

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I enjoy techie stuff (with the recent exception of taking too many hours to figure out wireless network problems that caused my Zeppelin Air...
Thursday, April 09, 2015

A drug for compassion?

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Sáez et al. enhance human egalitarian behavior in humans with tolcapone - a drug approved for use with Parkinson's disease patients - ...
Wednesday, April 08, 2015

A natural compound for chilling out?

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As I sit here typing this morning, I'm munching on cocoa nibs, inspired by Friedman's review pointing to the work of Dincheva et al...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2015

Physical activity's 'modest' effects on cognitive vitality

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Prakash et al. , in the Annual Review of Psychology, have reviewed the epidemiological literature on physical activity and exercise and thei...
Monday, April 06, 2015

The transparent avatar in your brain.

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While doing a review of some recent writing by Thomas Metzinger, I came across this brief and lucid video, which I pass on...  
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Friday, April 03, 2015

Awareness breaks down brain’s network modularity.

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Godwin et al. provide an analysis showing that awareness emerges from global changes in the brain’s functional connectivity: Neurobiologic...