Friday, July 30, 2021

How our brain cortex changes in the transition from childhood to adolescence.

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This open source article from Dong et al. has some excellent summary graphics:   Significance Here, we describe age-dependent shifts in ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Graphic depictions of an integrative model of mind

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To hopefully enhance the chance that you will pay attention to the creative and seminal thinking in the open source Laukkonen and Slagter re...
Monday, July 26, 2021

Stable individual differences in infants’ responses to violations of intuitive physics

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Interesting observations by Perez and Feigenson : Infants look longer at impossible or unlikely events than at possible events. While these...
Friday, July 23, 2021

A place in the brain for the sense of ‘self’

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Fascinating observations from Parvizi et al , whose findings provide a causal link between the right anterior and dorsal posteromedial corte...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

From many to (n)one: Meditation and the plasticity of the predictive mind

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I had a chat with my former University of Wisconsin colleague Richard Davidson during my visit to Madison, WI last week, and he pointed me t...
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Monday, July 19, 2021

Psilocybin induces rapid and persistent growth of dendritic spines in frontal cortex in vivo

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Interesting results from Shao et al. :    Highlights • Psilocybin ameliorates stress-related behavioral deficit in mice  • ...
Friday, July 16, 2021

Albert Einstein Quotes

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I am sending on some juicy Albert Einstein quotes posted by one of the members of the Madison Wisconsin book group that I still belong to......
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Thursday, July 15, 2021

Evolutionary models of financial markets.

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Levin and Lo's introduction of a PNAS special issue on evolutionary models of financial markets is an interesting read. A few clips: ...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

The A.I. Revolution, Trillionaires and the Future of Political Power.

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I want to point to a fascinating Ezra Klein podcast - you can read the transcript here - that is an interview with Sam Altman, the C.E.O. ...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Watching a brain encode present, past, and future….

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We all exist as an ongoing simulation of past, present, and future in our brains, with the hallucination we take to be reality being perturb...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Sullivan on what has happened to the belief system of the American elites.

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In a strident essay Andrew Sullivan pushes back against his critics who troll him as being a far rightist. He deflects the critique by char...
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Friday, July 09, 2021

Coffee is good for you, mostly....

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I am dysfunctional on waking every morning until I have had a strong cup of coffee, a personal experience that makes me want to pass on Jane...
Wednesday, July 07, 2021

Some people have no "Minds Eye"

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Carl Zimmer does a nice piece on the tens of millions of people who don't experience a mental camera. The condition has been named apha...
Monday, July 05, 2021

Human behavior and the brain's white matter

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I pass on a few edited clips from Filley's perspective piece in Science and the Editor's introduction describing work of Zhao et al...
Friday, July 02, 2021

Out-group animosity drives engagement on social media

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A disheartening analysis by Rathje et al. :   Significance Almost four billion people around the world now use social media platforms suc...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Seven nuggets on how we confuse ourselves about our brains and our world.

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In a series of posts starting on Nov. 27, 2020 I attempted to abstract and condense the ideas in Lisa Feldman Barrett’s 2017 book “How Emot...
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Monday, June 28, 2021

In our brains everything changes

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Sometimes learning the hard neuroscience of how our brains work leaves me feeling a bit queasy. The first time this happened was when I lear...
Friday, June 25, 2021

Lack of mathematical education impacts brain development and future attainment

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From Zacharopoulos et al. :    Significance Our knowledge of the effect of a specific lack of education on the brain and cognitive devel...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Decision-making ability, psychopathology, and brain connectivity

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An open access review offered by Dolan and his colleagues continues the story of correlating our human competencies with our brain structur...
Monday, June 21, 2021

Giving help to others may increase your life span.

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An interesting analysis from Chen et al. :  Significance Social support is a key contributor to mortality risk, with effects comparable in...