Monday, February 28, 2022

Seven Habits That Lead to Happiness in Old Age

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I want to point to this self-help article by Arthur Brooks in The Atlantic, part of his 'How to Build a Life' series. It's bott...
Friday, February 25, 2022

Reconsidering evidence of moral contagion in online social networks

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Burton et al. raise some cautions about recent studies seeming to show that inclusion of emotional terms in social media text messages incr...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Predictions help neurons, and the brain, learn

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From the PNAS Journal Club , a review of a publication by Luczak et. al. that suggest that neurons might be able to predict their own futur...
Monday, February 21, 2022

Consciousness is supported by near-critical slow cortical electrodynamics

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An open source offering from Toker et al. that has a nice summary graphic.:   Significance What changes in the brain when we lose consci...
Friday, February 18, 2022

Illusory faces are more likely to be perceived as male than female

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Interesting observations from Wardle et al. : Despite our fluency in reading human faces, sometimes we mistakenly perceive illusory faces ...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Our brains store concepts as sensory-motor and affective information

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Fascinating work from Fernandino et al ., who show that concept representations are not independent of sensory-motor experience:  Significan...
Monday, February 14, 2022

How to want less

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I've just enjoyed reading through an article by Arthur Brooks , "How to want less" in The Atlantic, which is adapted from his ...
Friday, February 11, 2022

A special issue of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience on tDCS

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I want to point to this special open source issue of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Paulo Boggio provides an interesting hist...
Wednesday, February 09, 2022

Expression unleashed: The evolutionary & cognitive foundations of human communication

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I'm passing on the abstract of a dense but interesting article by Christophe Heintz and Thom Scott-Phillips that will be published in B...
Monday, February 07, 2022

MindBlog is 16 years old... It's first post: "Dangerous Ideas"

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I repeat MindBlog's first post... of ideas that are now considered more commonplace than dangerous. Edge.org soldiers on, but its '...
Friday, February 04, 2022

Attention and executive functions - improvements and declines with ageing.

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From Verissimo et al. : Many but not all cognitive abilities decline during ageing. Some even improve due to lifelong experience. The crit...
Wednesday, February 02, 2022

How fast people respond to each other is a metric of social connection.

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From Templeton et al. :   Significance Social connection is critical for our mental and physical health yet assessing and measuring conne...
Monday, January 31, 2022

Threatening language is contagious - Tracking America’s collective response to threats with a linguistic tool

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From Choi et al. :   Significance People are constantly exposed to threatening language in mass communication channels, yet we lack tools...
Friday, January 28, 2022

The stories we imagine while listening to music depends on our culture.

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Margulis et al. (text from their introduction) ....compared quantitative measures of narrativity (the likelihood that an excerpt of music ...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Our brains have multiple representations of the same body part.

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Here is a neat finding. Remember your elementary biology textbook picture of the homunculi in our somatosensory and motor cortices? The smal...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Using big data to track major shifts in human cognition

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I want to pass on the first few paragraphs of a fascinating commentary by Simon DeDao on an article by Scheffer et al. that was the subject...
Friday, January 21, 2022

What is working for you and what is not?

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This post passes on to MindBlog readers the discussion topic for a Feb 6 2:00 p.m. (CST) Zoom meeting of The Austin Rainbow Forum, which I ...

Can monitoring brain waves boost mental health?

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David Dodge does an interesting article asking whether neurofeedback has delivered the mental health revolution it has been promising for ...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

C.E.O.s are our heroes, at least according to them.

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An interesting article by Peter Goodman , explains how corporations that claim to be serving the larger common good pay zero taxes. I sugges...
Monday, January 17, 2022

Different circuits in the brain for reward seeking and novelty seeking.

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Work by Ogasawara et al. is noted by Peter Stern . Novelty seeking is a key feature of intelligent behavior and adaptive cognition. Howev...