Wednesday, September 14, 2022

How the internet has fueled our current cultural stagnation.

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I pass on some of Michelle Goldberg's description of a forthcoming book by W. David Marx , “Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Soci...
Monday, September 12, 2022

Non-duality as a platform for experiencing daily life.

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I pass on abstracted edited clip from a recent podcast conversation between Sam Harris and M.I.T philosopher Kierna Setiya on “Philosophy an...
Friday, September 09, 2022

Eye movements are related to the contents of consciousness in REM (rapid eye movment) sleep

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Senzai and Scanziani have recorded head direction cells in the anterior dorsal nucleus of the thalamus in mice during wake and sleep. The di...
Wednesday, September 07, 2022

Is History History?

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I recommend that you read Bret Stephens fascinating NYTimes piece. Some clips: The End of History was supposed to have happened back in ...
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Monday, September 05, 2022

Animals (including us) conjure model-based structures from random events

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Superstitious learning is usually thought to be accounted for by conditioned association, but Jin et al. now show that monkeys can develop ...
Friday, September 02, 2022

Increasingly good artificial intelligence (A.I.) is offering us promise and peril.

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I want to pass on a few items from my list of putative MindBlog posts on A.I.  The first derives from an series of emails on A.I. sent to ...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Does crypto-world really give us trustworthyness without gate keepers...? The answer is NO - It hides a new elite.

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I try in the title of this post to summarize the basic conclusions of a fascinating NYTimes article by Siobhan Roberts. The article emphas...
Monday, August 29, 2022

The medium really is the message

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I recommend that you read a recent Op-Ed piece by Ezra Klein that notes 20th-century media theorists who saw what was coming and tried to w...
Friday, August 26, 2022

Our anterior insula signals salience and deviations from expectations via bursts of beta oscillations

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Haufler et al. show that the insula signals salience and prediction errors via amplitude modulations of beta bursts (~15-40 Hertz, or cycle...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

The brain chemistry underlying mental exhaustion.

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Emily Underwood does a review of work by Wiehler et al. (open source) on the brain chemistry underlying mental fatigue, also describing se...
Monday, August 22, 2022

Even novices intuit complex music theory,

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Bridget Alex does a nice summary of work by Weis and Peretz showing that people without musical training naturally improvise melodies that...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Reproducability crisis in machine learning systems that inform immediate or future actions

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I have by now accumulated a list of articles on a growing debate over naive scientists, especially social scientists, botching their researc...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Alcohol, neuronal plasticity, and mitochondrial trafficking

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Hernandez and Kaun provide a nice description of work by Knabbe et al. with summary graphics. Here is the start of their text: Consumptio...
Monday, August 15, 2022

A systematic review of microdosing - research on low dose psychedelics

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I pass on the link to this review by Polito and Liknaitzky . Their abstract: The use of low doses of psychedelic substances (microdosing) ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Music training enhances auditory and linguistic processing.

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From Neves et al. :   Highlights • Systematic review and meta-analysis of neurobehavioral effects of music training.  • We ask ...
Monday, August 08, 2022

Old hearts learn new tricks

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Nusinovich's summary in Science Magazine of work by Lerchenmüller et al. : Aging-related diseases such as heart failure and other card...
Friday, August 05, 2022

Dissecting and improving motor skill acquisition in older adults

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 From the introduction of Elvira et al. (open source): We designed a study intended to identify (i) the main factors leading to differen...
Wednesday, August 03, 2022

Motor learning without movement

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Fascinating work from Kim et al. on the influence of the prediction errors that are essential in calibrating actions of our predictive mind...
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Monday, August 01, 2022

Brain changes, or the absence thereof, associated with mindfulness training.

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Richard Davidson and his collaborators (open source, with useful graphics) inject a note of sanity into evaluating widely reported claims o...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Wolf attacks predict far-right voting

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Under MindBlog's category of "random curious stuff" I couldn't resist passing on the following bit of quirky political ana...