Monday, October 31, 2016

I can't resist passing this on..... Trump Sandwich

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Sent by a friend:

Questioning the universality of a facial emotional expression.

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Crivelli et al. question the universality of at least one facial expression that has been thought to be the same across all cultures. This ...
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Friday, October 28, 2016

Lifespan adversity and later adulthood telomere length.

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From Puterman et al. (Note...telomeres are protective caps of tandem repeats of nucleotides at the end of DNA strands, whose shortening is ...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

More evidence on exercise delaying later life dementia

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Suo et al. examine changes in brain anatomy that occur during exercise, the only known antidote to later life dementia. They compare brain...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Men are more friendly after conflict than women.

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Interesting stuff from Benenson and Wrangham , whose findings suggest the deep evolutionary history of male bonding. Men affiliate more afte...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Issues or Identity? Cognitive foundations of voter choice.

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This open source article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences by Jenki and Huette is worth a look. I pass on the summary and one figure. Vot...
Monday, October 24, 2016

What kind of exercise is best for the brain?

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Reynolds points to work by Nokia et al. asking what kind of exercise is most effective in stimulating the generation of new brain cells in...
Friday, October 21, 2016

Most effective learning?... sleep between two practice sessions

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From Mazza et al. : Both repeated practice and sleep improve long-term retention of information. The assumed common mechanism underlying th...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

You're gonna die....

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I live in Fort Lauderdale, an epicenter of life extension companies peddling life extending elixirs. I've tried a few of them, and repo...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Testosterone in men is associated with status enhancing behaviors.

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Seeing this piece by Dreher et al. makes me wonder what Donald Trump's testosterone levels are.... Significance Although in severa...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

The brain basis of numerical thinking is different in congenitally blind people.

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Kanjlia et al. show that the absence of visual experience modifies the neural basis of numerical thinking. Brain areas recruited for numeri...
Monday, October 17, 2016

3-year olds infer social norms from single actions.

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Work from Schmidt et al. that is in the same vein as the previous MindBlog post: Human social life depends heavily on social norms that pr...
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Friday, October 14, 2016

Our most simple sensory decisions show confirmation bias.

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Abrahamyan et al. do some fascinating experiments to show that our existing history of making choices, regardless of whether the choices ar...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

The decline of self, intimacy, and friendships

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David Brooks'  searing Op-Ed piece is worth a slow read. Some clips: ...In 1985, 10 percent of Americans said they had no one to fu...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

When fairness matters less than we expect.

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A fascinating piece of work from Cooney, Gilbert, and Wilson , from which I pass on the abstract and discussion: Abstract Do those who ...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Do "Brain-Training" programs work? - the latest installment of the debate

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Daniel Simons (Psychology Dept., Univ. of Illinois) has organized a collaboration that has examined essentially all of the relevant publish...
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Monday, October 10, 2016

Some brain benefits of exercise evaporate after a short rest.

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Gretchen Reynolds points to a study by kinesiologists at the Univ. of Maryland that probed what happens when very active and fit people st...
Friday, October 07, 2016

A way to change adult behaviors - debiasing decisions.

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Hambrick and Burgoyne do a piece on the difference between rationality and intelligence. Starting from Kahneman and Tversky's work in t...
Thursday, October 06, 2016

MindBlog, hurricane Matthew, and a personal note

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I have a few MindBlog posts in a queue to be automatically posted by Blogger, but want to mention that there might be a hiatus in posts caus...

A way to change adolescent behaviors?

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Bryan et al. present an interesting strategy for the difficult task of changing adolescent behaviors: Significance Behavioral science ...