Thursday, March 31, 2016

Another social science, Economics, looks at itself.

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Mindblog recently noted a large study that tested the replicability of studies in psychology journals. Only 36% of the findings were repeat...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Overkill in techno-aids for 'Mens Sana in Corpore Sano'

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None of us would argue with the 'sound mind in a sound body' injunction from Juvenal’s Latin satires (~100 AD), a goal that can be a...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Storing long term emotional memories.

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A Journal of Neuroscience precis of an article by Cambiaghi et al. , slightly edited: When we remember events, we often also remember wha...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Screenagers - brain executive function immediately diminished by television

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An article by Jolly points to interesting work by Lillard and Peterson . Their summary: The goal of this research was to study whether a...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Our progression towards a nation of rich and poor

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A fascinating and foreboding piece by Rank and Hirschl describe their development of a "economic risk calculator' available at ris...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Suppressing memory of trauma causes forgetting of other memories.

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An interesting article from Hulbert et.al. on how suppressing memory of a trauma also causes forgetting of unrelated experiences in the per...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Vasopressin increases human risky cooperative behavior

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From Brunnlieb et al. : Significance Most forms of cooperative behavior take place in a mutually beneficial context where cooperation i...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Pictures of green spaces make you happier.

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Reynolds points to work by van den Berg et al. showing that viewing pictures of green versus built urban areas enhances parasympathetic ne...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Rachmaninoff Morceaux de fantasie Op. 3, No. 4, Polichinelle

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This is the last of the pieces from my recent recitals that I want to pass on to readers - a robust beginning for a Monday morning!

Anxiety suppresses prefrontal cortex decision ability.

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Interesting work from Park et al. : A debilitating aspect of anxiety is its impact on decision making and flexible control of behavior. The...
Friday, March 18, 2016

Impatience, aging, and leukocyte telomere length.

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Yim et al. note in young college volunteers a correlation between a chemical marker of biological aging (leukocyte telomere length, abbr. L...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Political Substance Abuse: Donald Trump in Florida

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I have to pass this on .
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Seasonality in human cognitive brain responses

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A brief review in PNAS points to an article by Meyer et.al. : Mood changes have been linked to seasonality, but little is known about how ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Rachmaninoff Morceaux de fantasie Op. 3 No. 1 Elegie

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I continue to pass on a few of the pieces done at my recent piano recitals.  
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Our brains remember the good stuff.

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Anderson et al. show how our brains are attracted to items that have pleased us in the past, even if they are no longer relevant. People in...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Brain games and driving safely.

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I've done a number of posts on brain games (cf. here , here , and here ) and their critics . When I overcome my lassitude and occasional...

Wearing a bike helmet increases risk taking.

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From Gamble and Walker : Humans adapt their risk-taking behavior on the basis of perceptions of safety; this risk-compensation phenomenon...
Friday, March 11, 2016

Brahms Waltzes Op. 39, Nos. 1,13,14

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Recorded on my Steinway B, now in my Fort Lauderdale condo. I did this piece in recitals in Madison WI and Fort Lauderdale in the past 6 mon...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Stephen Wolfram on A.I. and the future of civilization

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Some clips from a Wolfram discussion (well worth reading) that notes the limits of doing things with machines... The machine is able to ...
Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Repeated social defeat causes neuroinflammation and memory impairment.

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I pass on the significance statement from McKim et al. , the link gives the more technical abstract. Repeated exposure to stress alters t...