Friday, July 29, 2016

Worldwide internet access from light based wireless communication

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Under the "random curious stuff" category in MindBlog's subtitle, I want to point to this NYTimes piece that fascinated me by...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Abstract thinking in newborn ducklings!

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Martinho and Kacelnik have shown that duckings imprint on the relational concept of "same or different." From Wasserman's pe...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Brain scans are prone to false positives.

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An analysis by Eklund et al. has raised serious doubts about positive correlations reported in many of the 40,000 fMRI studies published in...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

A must see Rube Goldberg machine

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The intractability of implicit beliefs

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Caoa and Banaji in the Harvard Psychology Dept. introduce their study: Imagine meeting Jonathan and Elizabeth. One person is a doctor. Th...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Our sociability correlates with epigenetic oxytocin gene modifications.

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From Haas et al.:   Significance Elucidating the genetic and biological substrates of social behavior serves to advance the way basic h...
Friday, July 22, 2016

Cultural differences in music perception

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McDermott et al. find that the isolated Tsimane people, who live in the Amazonian rainforest in northwest Bolivia, have no preference for f...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Oxytocin both bonds and divides the sexes.

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From Gao et al. : Facilitation of social attraction and bonding by the evolutionarily conserved neuropeptide oxytocin is well-established i...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Placebo effects in brain training

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Foroughi et al. address the question of whether our desire to become smarter may blind us to the role of placebo effects in brain training ...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Consciousness is the brain messing with itself.

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George Johnson does a nice summary of some current ideas on what consciousness is that were discussed at a recent symposium ( live stream h...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Insurance makes sellers of services dishonest.

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This piece from Kerschbamer et al. really resonates with my experiences in Florida, scam central for health insurance fraud: Honesty is a ...
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Friday, July 15, 2016

Who blames the victim?

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Niemi and Young ask What determines whether someone feels sympathy or scorn for the victim of a crime? Is it a function of political affi...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Social support, stress, and the aging brain

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Sherman et al. find that the volume of the amygdala in older adults (a center for stress responses) is positively correlated with stress an...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Is Donald Trump's frontostriatal connectivity weakened?

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Chester et al. find an interesting correlation between grandiose narcissism and the strength of connections between brain areas that proces...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

A non-linguistic brain network for mathematics.

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From Amalrica and Dehaene : The origins of human abilities for mathematics are debated: Some theories suggest that they are founded upon ...
Monday, July 11, 2016

Turning out the vote.

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Gilbert Chen summarizes work of Gerber et al. : A key challenge for any political campaign is to get its voters to actually vote. Field ex...
Friday, July 08, 2016

Endogenous opioids are not involved in meditation based pain relief

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From Zeidan et al.: Mindfulness meditation, a cognitive practice premised on sustaining nonjudgmental awareness of arising sensory events, ...
Thursday, July 07, 2016

The secrets to a long and happy life.

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Going through my queue of references that might become mindblog posts I come across this piece by O'Connor , describing findings from th...
Wednesday, July 06, 2016

Why we become more cautious with age.

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Rutledge et al. find that the decrease in risk-taking that occurs on aging may be related to dopamine-modulated changes in Pavlovian approa...
Tuesday, July 05, 2016

A simple model for why moderate beliefs rarely prevail.

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I attend the weekly chaos and complexity seminar at the University of Wisconsin when I am in Madison WI during the summer. I want to pass on...
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