Monday, August 31, 2015

Self-policing by psychologists - many prominent experiments fail replication tests

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Benedict Carey offers context, summary, and reactions to the recent Science article reporting work of a consortium of 270 scientists on fi...

A beta-blocker facilitates fear extinction.

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Fitzgerald et al. show, using a rat model, that propranolol, a  β -noradrenergic receptor blocker, can facilitate extinction of posttraumati...
Friday, August 28, 2015

The collaborative roots of corruption.

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Here is a neat piece of work, by Weisel and Shalvi : Significance Recent financial scandals highlight the devastating consequences of c...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

What emotions are and aren’t.

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Barrett uses a very useful analogy to describe the misguided search for "where in the brain" particular emotions occur: ...if you...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Stress can cause bad food choices and compromise long term goals.

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Maier et al. show that more immediate rewards are likely to be chosen following stress because stress increases immediate reward signaling ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Disadvantage, self control, and health

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A very sobering study from Miller et al : There are persistent socioeconomic disparities in many aspects of child development in America...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Biased internet search engines might influence election outcomes

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Just in case you are not pessimistic enough already about election manipulations that insure our continued governance by the 1% for the 1% ...
Friday, August 21, 2015

Introverts prefer mountains.

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From Oishi et al. : In five studies, we tested the link between personality and geography. We found that mountain-lovers were more introver...
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Thursday, August 20, 2015

Unequal, but happy

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I just came across an article in my queue of potential posts by Steven Quantz and Anette Asp that I had put aside, thinking to check whethe...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

People who eat spicy food live longer.

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I pass on this interesting bit of information because I, like my father and grandfather, am addicted to hot sauce containing chili peppers (...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Tracking ongoing cognition with fMRI of functional connectivity states.

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This work by Gonzalez-Castillo at al. shows how close we are getting to real time monitoring of brain activity associated with different ki...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Anti-aging therapies? Start by quantifying aging in young adults for early intervention.

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Belsky et al. show that aging processes can be quantified in people still young enough for prevention of age-related disease, opening a new...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Exercise for the aging brain - how much is necessary?

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Gretchen Reynolds points to interesting work on exercise and the aging brain by Vidoni et. al. Increasing amounts of aerobic exercise (7...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

What is fair? It depends on your culture.

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Tomasello and collaborators note interesting cultural differences in distributive justice: Distributing the spoils of a joint enterprise ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Knowing the internal states of ourselves and of others.

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We frequently can infer the emotional state of someone from the style of their movement, distinguishing, for example, when they hand us some...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Overclaiming - the illusion of knowledge

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Atir et al. probe how our inflated perception of our expertise can lead us to make claims of impossible knowledge. Their edited abstract: ...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Habitual exercise correlates with lower distractibility.

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Yet another demonstration of the salutary effects of long term exercise on mental function: Aging is associated with compromised executi...
Friday, August 07, 2015

The benefits of pupil orientation.

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This is kinda neat, from the current issue of Science Magazine:   Slit-eyed animals have either vertical or horizontal pupils. It i...
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Are Chatbots destined to become our most sympathetic listeners?

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Markoff and Mozur do a fascinating piece in the NYTimes describing how millions of young Chinese use a smartphone program as their intimate...
Thursday, August 06, 2015

Benefits of High School Music training.

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Maybe my avoiding gym classes in high school by being in the marching band and chorus paid off some brain benefits (in addition to my alread...
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