Monday, August 31, 2020

Changes as MindBlog's autonomic nervous system ages 11 years

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Actually, the original title of this MindBlog post on June 11, 2013 was "Changes as an autonomic nervous system ages 11 years - The ...
Friday, August 28, 2020

Reconsidering the value of believing in free will.

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Nadelhoffer et al. fail to replicate 2008 experiments suggesting that a belief in determinism increases cheating: A key source of support...
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Thursday, August 27, 2020

A brief history of risk

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Li, Hills, and Hertwig do an open access review with the title of this post. From their introductory paragraph: ...First, we examined how ...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Getting the rhythm to suppress Alzheimer's

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An interesting brief open source review by Lynne Peeples in PNAS describes experiments on mice and humans showing that visual and sound sti...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Rice-farming predicts tigher social norms, less innovative thinking, worldwide

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From Talhelm and English (open source): Data recently published in PNAS mapped out regional differences in the tightness of social norms a...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Stable isotopes in hair reveal dietary divergence related to socioeconomic status and health

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From Ehleringer et al. : Carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in hair sampled from 65 communities across the central and intermountain region...
Friday, August 21, 2020

Gaze deflection reveals how gaze cueing is tuned to extract the mind behind the eyes

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Here is a fascinating bit from Colombatto et al. :   Significance We report an empirical study of gaze deflection—a common experience ...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Effects of lockdown on human sleep and chronotype during the COVID-19 pandemic

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An open source article in Current Biology from Leone et al ., the summary: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in many countries imposing a lock...
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

A model shows herd immunity to COVID can be achieved at a population-wide infection rate of ~40%

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I pass on the editor's summary and the abstract for a open source article by Britton et al. :   Heterogeneity and herd immunity In...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Philanthropy—or tax-exempt lobbying?

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I pass on this piece by Brad Wible from the Editors' Choice section of the current issue of Science Magazine: Major corporations appe...
Monday, August 17, 2020

Our default-mode network contains nine subnetworks serving different cognitive tasks.

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Our brains are organized into large networks that can be identified during brain scanning. The default mode network, which has been the subj...
Friday, August 14, 2020

The Neurobiology of Social Distance

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Bzdok and Dunbar (open source) do a definitive review of evidence that psychosocial embedding in interpersonal relationship is crucial for ...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Placebos without deception reduce self-report and neural measures of emotional distress

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Interesting work from Guevarra et al. (open source): Several recent studies suggest that placebos administered without deception (i.e., no...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Personality dimensions are predicted by cell phone usage data

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From Stachi et al.:   Significance Smartphones are sensor-rich computers that can easily be used to collect extensive records of beha...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Conversational primes influence choices - a magic trick example

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From Pailhès and Kuhn : Abstract Past research demonstrates that unconscious primes can affect people’s decisions. However, these fre...
Monday, August 10, 2020

The Paradoxical Role of Social Capital in the Coronavirus Pandemic

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I suggest you read an insightful article by Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker with the title of this post. He begins with an interesting compar...
Friday, August 07, 2020

Working memory capacity predicts individual differences in social-distancing compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Xie et al. suggest that non-compliance is associated with limitations in people's mental capacity to simultaneously retain multiple pie...
Thursday, August 06, 2020

The coming de facto world government?

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David J. Lynch does a fascinating description , which I strongly suggest that you read, of How a little-known company kept Apple products ...
Wednesday, August 05, 2020

Conserved aspects of sex-biased brain development in humans and mice

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It is a pity that in our current political environment any scientist adding to the abundant evidence of brain differences between the sexes ...

Cats associated with early human farming long before their domestication

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As the herd of Abyssinian cats in my has grown, now numbering two 12 year olds and two kittens, I've become more curious about the origi...