Thursday, November 30, 2017

Speed of processing training results in lower risk of dementia

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While brain training exercises in general are not receiving a very good press these days , experiments testing effects of BrainHQ's spe...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Behavior modification empires.

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I have to pass on this clip from a Maureen Dowd interview of Jaron Lanier Mr. Lanier believes that Facebook and Google, with their “top...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

People who seek solitude are more creative.

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Ingraham points to an article by Bowker et al. that makes me feel better about my desire for and comfort with a substantial period of soli...
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Monday, November 27, 2017

How to turn conservatives into liberals.

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John Bargh and collaborators have done another interesting piece of work on how implicit biases can influence us. I pass on their abstract...
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Friday, November 24, 2017

Common cause of jihad and the Alt-Right

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I pass on some clips from an essay by Scott Atran , who is the director of research in anthropology at the CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, a...
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Thursday, November 23, 2017

How gratitude changes you and your brain.

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Thanksgiving day is an appropriate time to point to two articles from the Greater Good Magazine . Wong and Brown describe work on writing...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

A debate on the pros and cons of aging and death.

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I want to pass on the final comments from a debate between Allen Frances (a professor emeritus at Duke University who was the chairman of th...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Building artificial intelligence that can build artificial intelligence

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This gets scarier and scarier. Clips from an article by Cade Metz : ...perhaps a nightmare for highly skilled computer programmers: artific...
Monday, November 20, 2017

Buddhism is more Western than you think.

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Robert Wright does a review of Adam Gopnik’s review ( in the New Yorker ) of Wright’s book “Why Buddhism Is True.” The whole piece is ver...
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Friday, November 17, 2017

The emotional intelligence of one- to four-year-olds

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Interesting work from Wu et al. showing young children connect diverse positive emotional vocalizations to their probable causes, showing m...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

America is facing an epistemic crisis

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The Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times" is certainly taking its toll on all of us who don't hide from the curren...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Improving brain function by shocking it.

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This post points to three recent articles on non-invasive electrical brain stimulation of various types that enhance brain brain function. ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

How linguistic metaphor scaffolds reasoning

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Continuing the line of inquiry pioneered by Lakoff and Johnson's 1980 book, "Metaphors We Live by", Thibodeau et al. provide ...
Monday, November 13, 2017

Arousal versus relaxation in meditative practices.

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I am grateful to Robert Ruhloff for his comment on MindBlog's Oct. 25th post on Mindfulness, in which he pointed to a reference whose ...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Self as object: Trends in Self Research

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The current issue of Trends in Neurosciences has a nice open source article reviewing different aspects of assessing what our 'self...
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Thursday, November 09, 2017

For your brain's sake, keep moving.

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Gretchen Reynolds points to work by van Praag and collaborators showing that a week of activity rather than inactivity (in adult male rats...
Wednesday, November 08, 2017

Where our brains perceive social interactions.

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From Isik et al. : Significance Humans spend a large percentage of their time perceiving the appearance, actions, and intentions of oth...
Tuesday, November 07, 2017

Modern flimflam men? - The Flow Genome Project

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(Note added Aug.16, 2019.  Please see this update: https://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2019/08/a-schism-in-flow-land-flow-genome.html . Kolter ...
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Monday, November 06, 2017

Focus on present predicts enhanced life satisfaction but not happiness

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Another study by Felsman et al. , in the vein of the work described in MindBlog's Oct. 25 post. That study claimed a correlation between...
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Friday, November 03, 2017

Cognitive reflection in men impaired by single testosterone dose

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An interesting bit from Nave et al. : In nonhumans, the sex steroid testosterone regulates reproductive behaviors such as fighting between ...