Friday, June 28, 2019

Perception as controlled hallucination - predictive processing and the nature of conscious experience

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I've now read several times through a fascinating Edge.org conversation with philosopher Andy Clark. I suggest you read the piece, and ...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Implicit racial bias is preserved by historical roots of social environments.

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Payne et al. note that geographic differences in implicit racial bias correlate with the number of slaves in those areas in 1860. Signifi...
Monday, June 24, 2019

Over 50-fold difference between individuals in circadian melatonin sensitivity to evening light.

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Phillips et al. probe how our high sensitivity to artificial light after dusk perturbs the circadian rhythm of our sleep hormone melatonin:...
Friday, June 21, 2019

Mechanism of exercise and antioxidant stimulation of memory and new nerve cell growth

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On reading this article by Yook et al. I promptly ordered a bottle of 10 mg astaxanthin capsules to add to my normal array of supplements (...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Enhancing longevity by removing deteriorated body cells.

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Here I pass on both the introductory summary and concluding paragraph of van Deursen's review of efforts to enhance longevity by removi...
Monday, June 17, 2019

Why can we read only one word at a time?

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Fascinating work from White et al. : Significance Because your brain has limited processing capacity, you cannot comprehend the text on...
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Friday, June 14, 2019

Why high-class people get away with incompetence.

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Belmi et al. do four experiments suggesting that people who come from a higher social class are more likely to have an inflated sense of the...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Policy evaluation by randomized trials may provoke greater objections than implementing them untested.

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Meyer et al. find that experiments comparing two unobjectionable policies or treatments can generate more objections than simply proceeding ...
Monday, June 10, 2019

Is technology really reshaping our consciousness?

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My first reaction on reading a recent Op-Ed piece by David Brooks " When Trolls and Crybullies Rule the Earth " was to say 'Ye...
Friday, June 07, 2019

The wisdom of partisan crowds.

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Fascinating and counterintuitive findings from Becker et al. , who find that the wisdom of crowds is robust to partisan bias: Significance...
Wednesday, June 05, 2019

Inequality brokered

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Public opinion about sexual minorities has improved dramatically in recent years, but Sun and Gao do an analysis showing that discriminator...
Monday, June 03, 2019

Blueprint - Nicholas Christakis' new book on evolutionary origins of a good society

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This opinion piece by Frank Bruni in the NYTimes motivated me to download and read Nicholas Christakis' Magnum Opus “Blueprint” (very...
Friday, May 31, 2019

After brief music training 8-10 year old kids show less hyperactivity and better inhibitory control.

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Fasano et al. show that only three months of orchestral music training improves inhibitory control and reduces hyperactivity in 8-10 year o...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Happily ever after....

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Sure enough, as soon as I do yesterday's post on aging, I run into, and will pass on in this post, a sane article in the Guardian that ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Live younger longer

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New Yorker Magazine writer and polymath Adam Gopnik does an excellent article describing studies on our increased longevity that aim to enh...
Monday, May 27, 2019

With the rise of Trump, the fall of racial prejudice?

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Stanley-Becker points to a fascinating study by Hopkins and Washington . Their abstract: In his campaign and first few years in office, Do...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

Blame the liberals for unlivable cities!

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An excellent article by Farhad Manjoo , focusing on San Francisco's affordable housing crisis. Some clips: Just look at San Francisco, ...
Friday, May 24, 2019

Educating liberals about white privilege doesn't make them more empathetic.

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Cooley et al. find that people with socially liberal views on the major political issues are actually less likely to empathize with a poor ...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Benefits of a period of exercise persist after 10 years.

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Gretchen Reynolds points to a study by Johnson et al. showing long term effects of an experiment conducted from 1998 to 2003, in which ove...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

A Sunday Afternoon Musicale - Bridges and Mendelssohn

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This post falls in the 'random curious stuff' of the MindBlog title above. I want to share some of my current musical efforts with M...