Friday, March 31, 2017

Preverbal foundations of human fairness

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I want to point to two articles in the second issue of Nature Human Behavior. One is a review by McAuliffe et al. : New behavioural and ...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

The best exercise for aging muscles

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I want to pass on the message from this Gretchen Reynolds article , that points to work by Robinson et al. . Their experiments were... .......
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Brain systems specialized for knowing our place in the pecking order

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From Kumaran et al. : Highlights •Social hierarchy learning is accounted for by a Bayesian inference scheme  •Amygdala and hippocamp...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Termite castles, human minds, and Daniel Dennett.

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After reading through Rothman’s New Yorker article on Daniel Dennett, I downloaded Dennett’s latest book, “ From Bacteria to Bach and Ba...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Ownership of an artificial limb induced by electrical brain stimulation

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From Collins et al. : Significance Creating a prosthetic device that feels like one’s own limb is a major challenge in applied neurosci...
Friday, March 24, 2017

Predicting the knowledge–recklessness distinction in the human brain

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Important work from Vilares et al.  - in an open source paper in which fMRI results are shown in a series of figures - showing that brain im...
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Thursday, March 23, 2017

Warping reality in the era of Trump - some interesting essays

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I try to not pay attention, feel worn down by the continual bombardment of alternative realities presented by today's media, but have re...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Is the body the missing link for truly intelligent machines?

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Medlock comments on efforts to achieve human-like artificial intelligence (AI) while bypassing the messy flesh that characterizes organic l...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

What is really going on in the White House?

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A good friend sent me this speculation, and I asked him if I could pass it on. He said yes, as long as he remained anonymous.... Ivanka Tr...
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Emergence of communities and diversity in social networks

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Two edited chunks from the introduction of Han et al.  (open source), followed by the significance and abstract statements: Han et al. e...
Monday, March 20, 2017

Materialism alone can't explain consciousness? A flawed argument.

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Adam Frank does an interesting piece at aeon.co in which he suggests that since the materialist position in physics appears to rest on shak...
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Friday, March 17, 2017

Half of the conclusions in psychology and cognitive neuroscience papers are wrong.

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I want to add to MindBlog's archive (see here , here , and here ) of articles that document the fact that half or more of the scientific...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Well-being increased by imagining time as scarce.

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You have surely heard the homilies "Live each day as if it were your last." or "Would you be doing what you are doing now if ...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Impeachara

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Sent by a friend, I can't resist passing it on....

Minding the details of mind wandering.

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Mind wandering happens both with and without intention, and Paul Seli, in Schecter's Harvard psychology laboratory, finds differences be...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Humans can do echolocation

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Flanagin et al. find evidence for top-down auditory pathways for human echolocation comparable to those found in echolocating bats.  Sighte...
Monday, March 13, 2017

Exercise slows the aging of heart cells.

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Ludlow et al. find (in female rats) that exercise slows the loss of caps (telomeres) on the end of chromosomes that prevent damage or frayi...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Meditating mice!

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Here is an interesting twist from Weible et al. , who find that inducing rhythms in the mouse anterior cingulate cortex similar to those obs...
Thursday, March 09, 2017

A higher-order theory of emotional consciousness

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LeDoux and Brown offer an integrated view of emotional and cognitive brain function, in an open source PNAS paper that is a must-read for t...
Wednesday, March 08, 2017

We look like our names.

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An interesting bit from Zwebner et al. : Research demonstrates that facial appearance affects social perceptions. The current research in...