Friday, August 30, 2019

Loss of control in aging cells.

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Wow...experiments like those of Pereda et al. make me feel rather fatalistic and resigned to the aging process, notwithstanding all the num...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Interindividual variability - rather than universality - in facial-emotion perception.

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Brooks et al. do experiments suggesting that the representational structure of emotion expressions in visual face-processing regions may be...
Monday, August 26, 2019

From "Love Your Enemies" - Arthur Brooks on Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory

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I have read through Arthur Brooks' new book, "Love your Enemies," which addresses the many facets of our current political pol...
Friday, August 23, 2019

What we see is biased by ongoing neural activity.

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Rassi et al. (open source) show that ongoing neural activity in our brain, as in the fusiform face area, can influence what we perceive in ...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

More diversity in Flow-land.

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I will pass on part of an email from Mr. Todd Denen occasioned by my 8/16/19 post, in which he assures me, that unlike the Flow Genome Proj...
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Monday, August 19, 2019

What we see is influenced by what we can do about it

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Djebbara et al. do experiments that resolve an ancient debate on the relationship between cognition, movement, and environment, showing tha...
Friday, August 16, 2019

A Schism in Flow-land? Flow Genome Project vs. Flow Research Collective

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In Nov. 2017 I did a scathing review of  the "Stealing Fire" book by Jamie Wheal and Steven Kotler - in support of expensive work...
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How weight training changes the brain.

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Gretchen Reynolds points to work by Kelty et al. showing that weight training in rats can ameliorate mild cognitive impairment in rats ind...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Five myths about consciousness

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In a perspective piece for the Washington Post Christof Koch (chief scientist and president of the Allen Institute of Brain Science) does a...
Monday, August 12, 2019

It’s not just how the game is played, it’s whether you win or lose

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An open source article from Molina et al. : Growing disparities of income and wealth have prompted extensive survey research to measure t...
Friday, August 09, 2019

Ingroup vigilance in collectivistic cultures

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Fascinating work from Liu et al. , who provide a more nuanced view of how people in more collectivist cultures are more suspicious of possib...
Wednesday, August 07, 2019

Feeling pleasure from music - brain correlates of why people differ

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From Martínez-Molina et al. : SIGNIFICANCE Music is one of the most important sources of pleasure for many people, but at the same time...
Monday, August 05, 2019

Can an uprising of decency win the next presidential election?

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I want to point to this massively cogent piece by David Brooks, and also pass on a video done by the democratic presidential candidate he m...
Friday, August 02, 2019

What can we do when facts don't matter?

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Some of Trump’s most ardent supporters are those whose lives are most diminished and compromised by his actions. They do not let facts cloud...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Politics are in our DNA - why societies evolved to have both conservatives and liberals.

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Sebastian Junger points out an evolutionary rationale for the presence of both liberals and conservatives within a group - that over our ev...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Re-skilling the brain.

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For the first time,  Oby et al  (open source, nice graphics) observe the new neural activity patterns that cause a new learned behavior. S...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Deindividuation of outgroup faces occurs at the earliest stages of visual perception.

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From Hughes et al : A hallmark of intergroup biases is the tendency to individuate members of one’s own group but process members of other ...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Facial muscles in dogs evolved for interactions with humans.

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From Kaminski et al. (check out the videos in the article): Domestication shaped wolves into dogs and transformed both their behavior and ...
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Monday, July 22, 2019

Around the globe, financial temptation increases civic honesty.

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Shalvi does a commentary on work by Cohn et al. Here is the Cohn et al. abstract: Civic honesty is essential to social capital and econom...
Friday, July 19, 2019

It’s never simple...The tidy textbook story about the primary visual cortex is wrong.

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When I was a postdoc in the Harvard Neurobiology department in the mid-1960’s I used to have afternoon tea with the Hubel and Weisel group....