Monday, November 30, 2015

The effects of birth order on personality.

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Rohrer et. al. issue a new installment on the perennial question of how our birth order influences us, with a study showing higher intellig...
Friday, November 27, 2015

A picture show; and, Alzheimer's and the innate immune system

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Our nervous and immune systems interact with each other at the same time they both interact with our environment. Cell magazine has put to...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

Online political communication: more than an echo chamber?

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From Barbera et al. : We estimated ideological preferences of 3.8 million Twitter users and, using a data set of nearly 150 million tweets...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Choosing to be grateful.

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In a piece timed for Thanksgiving, Arthur Brooks does a nice job of fetching up and giving links to references to a number of interesting s...

Musical expertise modulates the brain’s entrainment to music.

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Yet another study, by Doelling and Poeppel , showing effects of musical training on the brain and supporting a role for cortical oscillatory...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Our bodies can sabotage our healthy behaviors..

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I pass on an interesting chunk from Reynolds' review of work by Mansoubi et al. showing that people who use sit-to-stand workstations ...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Wielding power increases testosterone in women.

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Anders et al. provide evidence for a gender→testosterone pathway: Significance Human biology is typically studied within the framework...
Friday, November 20, 2015

Flip-Flops in medical advice.

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I want to forward readers some clips I've taken from a review by Zuger of a recent book " Ending Medical Reversal " by Prasad...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Divided we fall - putting social progress on par with prosperity

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Laura Levis, in Harvard Magazine , describes work of Porter and Stern, who have developed a social progress index that: ...ranks 133 count...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

A personal note, the Steinway B now in Fort Lauderdale - some Chopin

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After a few tense moments,  my Steinway B is now moved from Wisconsin to Florida. I've upgraded my video and audio recording equipm...
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Neuropolitics - reading the electorate's mind.

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Members of our two major political parties increasingly seem to inhabit alternative realities that are utterly incomprehending of each other...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

The Brain with David Eagleman

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I want to point MindBlog readers who aren't already aware of the David Eagleman PBS series on the brain to its description on the PBS w...

More evolution cartoons

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I pass this on from a recent seminar presentation to the Chaos group at the Univ. of Wisconsin... There must be hundreds of cartoons that t...
Monday, November 16, 2015

Good and bad stress in the Brain - The inverted U

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I want to pass on a bit of commentary by Robert Sapolsky, in a special issue of Nature Neuroscience that focuses on stress, that presents a...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

Shift happens

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I'm passing on this interesting and scary 2014 video about our future, sent to me by a friend.
Friday, November 13, 2015

How to live what we don't believe.

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Veteran readers of MindBlog will be aware that a continuing issue has been the problem of what to do with our understanding of how our brain...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Amazing…. Robots learn coordinated behavior from scratch.

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Der and Martius suggest that a novel plasticity rule can explain the development of sensorimotor intelligence, without having to postulate ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Trusting robots, but not androids

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Gilbert Chin points to work by Mathur and Reichling in the Journal Cognition. Robots collect warehoused books, weld car parts togethe...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

The unknowns of cognitive enhancement

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Martha Farah points out how little is known about current methods of cognitive enhancement, and suggests several reasons why we are so igno...
Monday, November 09, 2015

Can we really change our aging?

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I thought I would point MindBlog readers to a brief talk I gave, "Can we really change our aging?," at the Nov. 1, 2015 meeting o...