Friday, June 30, 2017

Maybe Trump’s behavior is explained by a simple Machine Learning (A.I.) algorithm.

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Burton offers an intriguing explanation for our inability to predict Donald Trump’s next move suggesting: ...that Trump doesn’t operate w...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Mechanism of adult brain changes caused by early life stress.

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Peña et al. , working with mice, demonstrate a mechanisms by which early life stress encodes lifelong susceptibility to stress by changing ...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Positive trends over time in personality traits as well as in intelligence.

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Jokela et al. add an interesting dimension to numerous studies that have shown a steady increase in people's intelligence over the past...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

It's complicated....more on Sapolsky's new book.

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In a recent MindBlog post I urged you to read Robert Sapolsky’s new book, "Behave - The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst."...
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Monday, June 26, 2017

Why it is impossible to tune a piano.

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Here is a 'random curious stuff' item, per the MindBlog description above.  I want to pass on this great explanation of why physics ...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Sorting out complex thoughts and messy emotions

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Here is a nice perky piece from Stephen Matheson, editor of Cell Reports, on the genetics of behavior, which I pass along in its entirety (...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Dogs can know what you know.

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Catela et al. offer evidence in dogs for theory of mind ability (recognizing that others have a different perspective, shown for humans, ap...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Metabolic and physical decline that occurs during aging promoted by a DNA repair enzyme.

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Damage to our DNA accumulates during our aging, and Park et al. show a link between this damage and the loss of metabolic function associat...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

A conclusion from one of my lectures.

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While mulling over possible topics I might develop for a next lecture, I have looked back over previous efforts on dericbownds.net and foun...
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Monday, June 19, 2017

Some outstanding books on the biology of our behaviors.

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If you are wanting to find a humorous, fascinating, engaging, authoritative account of why we humans behave the way we do, you should immedi...
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Friday, June 16, 2017

Watching our brains construct linguistic phrases

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From Nelson et al. : Significance According to most linguists, the syntactic structure of sentences involves a tree-like hierarchy of n...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Brain-to-Brain symmetry tracks classroom interactions.

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From Dikker et al. : Highlights •We report a real-world group EEG study, in a school, during normal class activities  •EEG was record...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Our mental models predict emotion transitions.

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Thornton and Tamir (open source) demonstrate that we use mental models to allow us to predict, during a currently perceived emotion in anot...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

A chemical link between early life stress and adult schizophrenia

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A massive collaboration finds that schizophrenia-like symptoms induced by early life stress in mice correlates with expression of a DNA alt...
Monday, June 12, 2017

You're less likely to check facts in a social media crowd than when alone.

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Jun et al. (open source) make a stab at characterizing the societal problem of "fake" news: Significance The dissemination o...
Friday, June 09, 2017

Cracking the brain's code for facial identity.

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Chang and Tsao appear to have figured out how facial identity is represented in the brain: Highlights •Facial images can be linearly r...
Thursday, June 08, 2017

Trust and the poverty trap.

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from Jachimowicz et al : Significance More than 1.5 billion people worldwide live in poverty. Even in the United States, 14% live below...
Wednesday, June 07, 2017

The heart trumps the head : Desirability bias in political belief revision.

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From Tappin et al . Understanding how individuals revise their political beliefs has important implications for society. In a pre-registe...
Tuesday, June 06, 2017

Opioids regulate oxytocin enhancement of social attention.

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From Monte et al. work suggesting that the effectiveness of oxytocin in treating social dysfunction might be enhanced by the simultaneous a...
Monday, June 05, 2017

Visual category selectivity is innate.

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Interesting work from Hurk et al. , who find that the brains of people blind since birth show category specific activity patterns for faces,...