Thursday, June 30, 2016

Cognitive fatigue increases impulsivity.

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Sort of makes sense.. Blain et al. show that if you use your lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) for control process required for an extended ...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

The brain makes maps of abstract realms.

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Underwood summarizes the importance of recent work by Constantinescu et al. The brain is a mapmaker. As you navigate a landscape, neurons...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Training our brains without our awareness.

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There is growing interest in the use of neurofeedback (NF) as a tool to study and treat various clinical conditions. The uses of NF are div...
Monday, June 27, 2016

Much ado about grit.

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Grit seems to have replaced resilience as the psychological virtue du jour, and like resilience (see Sehgal's piece " on "The...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Why do Greek statues have such small penises?

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Time for a random wild-card post, passing on Andrew Lear's speculations on Greek statues, as summarized in a piece by Olivia Goldhill . ...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

Think less, think better.

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In an NYTimes piece , Moshe Bar translates the psycho-speak (which caused me to completely miss the point of the work) of an article describ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Smartphone Era Politics

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Selections from one of Roger Cohen's many intelligent essays in The New York Times: The time has come for a painful confession: I have ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Confronting the prejudiced brain

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I want to pass on a clip from an essay published on the greater good science center's website . The article is worth reading in its ent...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Predicting whether you are going to vote.

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An interesting nugget from Rogers et al. , who find that callers to potential voters are more likely to correctly predict whether the person...
Friday, June 17, 2016

Yes, there have been aliens.

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This post falls under the "random curious stuff" category in MindBlog's description line. Adam Frank gives an interesting acco...
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Thursday, June 16, 2016

The mistrust of science

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Atul Gawande offers another fascinating essay , in the form of his commencement speech at the California Institute of Technology on June 10....
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Our (Bare) Shelves, Our Selves

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As is the case with many people moving through their 70's, I am having to downsize my surroundings. An 1861 stone schoolhouse converted ...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Vision reconstructs causal history from static shapes.

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From Chen and Scholl : The perception of shape, it has been argued, also often entails the perception of time. A cookie missing a bite, fo...
Monday, June 13, 2016

A postdictive illusion of choice.

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Bear and Bloom report a simple experiment showing how we can feel as if we make a choice before the time at which this choice is actually m...
Friday, June 10, 2016

Reducing stress induced inflammatory disease with bacteria.

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Interesting work from Reber et al. : Significance The hygiene, or “old friends,” hypothesis proposes that lack of exposure to immunoreg...
Thursday, June 09, 2016

Unethical amnesia

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From Kouchaki and Gino : Despite our optimistic belief that we would behave honestly when facing the temptation to act unethically, we oft...
Wednesday, June 08, 2016

The attention economy

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I pass on some clips from an essay by Tom Chatfield : How many other things are you doing right now while you’re reading this piece? Are y...
Tuesday, June 07, 2016

A redefinition of health and well-being for older adults

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McClintock et al. take a more comprehensive approach to defining health and find some interesting new categories. The healthiest people are...
Monday, June 06, 2016

Why do we feel awe?

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I want to point to an article by Dacher Keltner on the functions of awe that appeared on the Slate website, along with others sponsored by...
Friday, June 03, 2016

Is humanity getting better?

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I want to pass on a few clips from a stimulating essay by Leif Wenar, who suggests "The real trick to understanding our world is to se...