Friday, April 29, 2016

The privileged fifth.

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I tweeted this well researched  OpEd piece by Thomas Edsall the first time I read it, and after my third reading, want to urge you to read ...
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Thursday, April 28, 2016

Sleep deprivation, brain structure, and learning

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Saletin et al. find that individual differences in the anatomy of the human hippocampus explain many of the differences in learning impairm...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Grandiose narcissism and the U.S. presidency

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Many of us are scratching our heads about what a Trump presidency might be like, particularly in regard to his outstanding personality trait...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?

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I want to pass on some clips from Silk's recent review of Frans de Waal's recent book whose title is the title of this post: Natu...
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Monday, April 25, 2016

Essential role of default mode network in higher cognitive processing.

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The respective roles of attentional and default mode networks in our brains has been the subject of numerous MindBlog posts (enter 'defa...
Friday, April 22, 2016

How to attract others.

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Well, Duh...... Interesting, but talk about showing the obvious!.. from Vacharkulksemsuka et al. : Across two field studies of romantic attr...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Impulsivity, sensation seeking, and substance use correlate with reduced brain cortical thickness.

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From Holmes et al. : Individuals vary widely in their tendency to seek stimulation and act impulsively, early developing traits with genetic...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Metaphorical conflict shapes social perception when spatial and ideological collide.

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Kleiman et al. do some intriguing experiments. I give you their abstract first, which doesn't actually say how they did the experiments...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Political polarization and prejudice.

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Yesterday's post dealt with softening prejudicial attitudes towards transgender people. This is relevant to prejudice rising from the ri...
Monday, April 18, 2016

How to change prejudice...for real this time

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John Bohannon summarizes the interesting story of two researchers, who after finding that a study on reversing homophobia was based on fake...
Friday, April 15, 2016

Brain correlates of how the risk taking of others influences our own risk taking

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From Suzuki et al. , another upstairs/downstairs story. Risk is represented in the caudate nucleus (downstairs), the risk activity of others...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Aging brains - more physical activity, more gray matter, less Alzheimers.

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I like to pass on any work I see relevant to exercise, aging, and the brain. The following is from Raji et al. BACKGROUND: Physical...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Distraction in the digital era….what about since 1710?

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I want to pass on some clips from an interesting essay by Frank Furedi, " The Ages of Distraction ." The rise of the internet and ...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

The evolutionary origins of smiles, laughter, and tears.

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Graziano suggests that our smile originated in the defensive reaction of monkeys to other monkeys moving into their personal space. He then...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Another list - "Keys to happiness"

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The New York Times has done a  simple list of pointers to basic articles and research on well being. I'm passing on a few of the items ...
Friday, April 08, 2016

A succinct list of some of our common psychological errors.

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I want to point to Belsky's article on why we think we are better decision makers under uncertainty than we really are. He summarizes s...
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Thursday, April 07, 2016

Muscle mass and nerve control enhanced in octogenarian athletes.

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Power et al. expand their earlier studies on active runners ~65 years old to find ~14% greater muscle mass and ~28% more functioning motor ...
Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Why sad music can make us feel good.

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As an update to a previous MindBlog post on why we like sad music, I want to note Ojiaku's brief mention of several articles on this s...
Tuesday, April 05, 2016

The Social Gene

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I want to pass on some clips from Joseph's Swift's review of a book, " The Society of Genes " by Yanai and Lercher that u...
Monday, April 04, 2016

Pterostilbene anti-aging supplement - undesirable side effects

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In a January 15 MindBlog post , I noted the start of my most recent foray into supplements meant to have salutary effects on energy, mind, b...
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