Monday, May 30, 2022

Brain-Heart interplay in emotional arousal - resolving a hundred year old debate

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Candia-Rivera et al. do a fascinating piece of work that answers some long-standing issues in the century old debate on the role of the aut...
Friday, May 27, 2022

Experiential appreciation as a pathway to meaning in life

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I have resumed cruising journals' tables of contents after a lapse due to shifting my attention elsewhere , and just came across this in...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Why is a moving hand less sensitive to touch than a stationary hand?

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Fuehrer et al. do a nice piece showing how our brains' predictive processing can alter our sensory experience:   Significance Tactil...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

Mozart and Brahms Piano Trios at an 80th birthday house concert

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This post falls in the 'random curious stuff' category mentioned under MindBlog's title. On May 15, one day before my 80th birth...
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Thursday, May 19, 2022

Harmonics of the social brain

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Interesting work from Mague et al. on the brain-wide network in mice that encodes rewarding social experience:  Highlights • Mach...
Monday, May 16, 2022

How stress might help reduce dementia and alzheimer’s.

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The post today (my 80th birthday) points to experimental results relevant to my interest in not losing my marbles anytime soon. Fauzia point...
Friday, May 13, 2022

The tabula sapiens consortium - mapping cell types in the human body

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It is hard to keep up with the mind boggling advances that pop up in almost every issue of Science Magazine. In a perspective article Liu a...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Increases and decreases in affective polarization over the past 40 years in advanced democracies

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An interesting study from Boxell et al. shows that across 12 advanced democracies, affective polarization, the degree to which people feel ...
Monday, May 09, 2022

Graziano's conceptual framework for consciousness

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I would like to pass on this link to Graziano's latest (open source) explication of his theory of consciousness, continuing a MindBlog ...
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The prosocial effect of touching - the Midas touch effect.

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Schaefer et al. (open source) examine the neural underpinnings of how light touching enhances prosocial behavior. Their abstract: Giving ...
Thursday, May 05, 2022

Questioning common claims about human brain evolution

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From DeCasien et al. : Highlights New research has questioned or contradicted multiple long-standing claims about human brain evoluti...
Tuesday, May 03, 2022

Older adults store too much information.

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From Amer et al. :   Highlights Healthy aging is accompanied by declines in control of attention. These reductions in the contr...
Monday, May 02, 2022

The human fear paradox: Affective origins of cooperative care

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On the same morning last week that I read a NYTimes essay by Thomas Edsall " The Politics of Fear Show No Sign of Abating " I rece...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

The cultural evolution of love in literary history

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An interesting article from Baumard et al. in Nature Human Behaviour: Since the late nineteenth century, cultural historians have noted th...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Are we seeing the beginning of World War III?

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Below, I am passing on some links to background reading for this Sunday's Austin Rainbow Forum (email forumaustin@gmail.com for informat...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

Insight from Jonathan Haidt - "After Babel"

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This article by Jonathan Haidt in the May 2022 print edition of The Atlantic is a long, frightening, and rewarding read. It lays out the me...
Monday, April 18, 2022

How the gut talks to the brain.

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Gabanyi et al. show that bacterial cell wall molecules that travel to the brain could trigger a host of behaviors. Here is the abstract of...
Friday, April 15, 2022

A magisterial summary of the new world disorder by David Brooks

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A few clips that attempt to summarize a David Brooks essay that does a beautiful job of putting all the pieces together: I can remember a ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

The Dance of Sleep

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Sleep and wakefulness are characterized by unique intrinsic activity patterns and are usually thought to be two distinct global states, with...
Monday, April 11, 2022

The road to our larger brains

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Bertrand et al. address the question of how and why mammals evolved large brain sizes relative to their body mass by characterizing the tim...
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