Monday, October 31, 2022

Molecular markers of eventual chronic diseases of aging are higher in young adults of lower socioeconomic status.

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Sobering work from Shanahan et al. :   Significance The analysis of gene expression in peripheral whole blood of US young adults in their ...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Observing the activity of our prosocial brains

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Interesting work from Lockwood et al. , open source with nice graphics:   Highlights • Prosocial behaviors frequently involve exe...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

A lucid exposition on non-dual awareness by James Low

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The ‘Waking Up’ app by Sam Harris has posted a series of lectures by James Low that “makes the esoteric teachings of Dzogchen—a non-dual co...
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Monday, October 24, 2022

Generative A.I. - more sociopathic than FaceBook and Twitter?

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Have a look at this article on how the sociopathic effects of Facebook and Twitter could be dwarfed by what open source generative A.I. cou...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

New Perspectives on how our Minds Work

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I want to pass on to MindBlog readers this link to a lecture I gave this past Friday (10/21/22) to the Univ. of Texas OLLI (Osher Lifelong ...
Friday, October 21, 2022

Anxiety - What is it, when is it useful, when is it not?

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The title of this post is the discussion topic for the Nov. 6 Austin Rainbow Forum, a monthly discussion group of LGBT seniors that first me...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Facebook has no idea where it keeps our personal data.

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A fascinating article from Biddle describing the situation that occured when a court ordered Facebook to turn over information it had coll...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Musical rhythm training improves short-term memory for faces

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From Zanto et al :   Significance Musical training can improve numerous cognitive functions associated with musical performance. Yet, t...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Sleepless and unhelpful

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Simon et al. demonstrate that sleep loss leads to the withdrawal of human helping across individuals, groups, and large-scale societies: ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Third-party punishment by preverbal infants

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From Kanakogi et al. : Third-party punishment of antisocial others is unique to humans and seems to be universal across cultures. However, ...
Monday, October 10, 2022

A sleeping touch improves vision.

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Interesting work reported by Onuki et al. in the Journal of Neuroscience :    SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Tactile sensations can bias our visu...
Friday, October 07, 2022

Liberal Democracy versus Christian Democracy

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I pass on the opening paragraphs of Thomas Edsall's essay , which offers one of the most succinct summaries I have seen. Could there ...
Wednesday, October 05, 2022

Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Puritanical Morality

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MindBlog receives articles for commentary from the Cambridge University Journal of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. I will pass on the followi...
Monday, October 03, 2022

Triggers for mother love

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A fascinating open source article from Margaret Livingstone carrying forward the famous experiments by Harry Harlow:   Significance Harr...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Trigger warnings and ‘safety-ism’ don’t work.

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Mark Manson does an engaging " Mindf*ck Monday Newsletter from Sept. 7 " that I recommend you have a look at. It cites a meta-ana...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Neural synchronization predicts marital satisfaction

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From Li et al. :   Significance Humans establish intimate social and personal relationships with their partners, which enable them to surv...
Monday, September 26, 2022

How nature nurtures

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MindBlog has passed on a number of articles on how exposure to nature reduces stress (see a sample list below). Here is a further contributi...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Machine learning is translating the languages of animals

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Anthes does an article on how machine learning is being used to eavesdrop on naked mole rats, fruit bats, crows and whales — and to communi...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Lasting improvements in seniors’ working and long-term memory with repetitive neuromodulation

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From Grover et al. , an open source article in which details of their transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) protocols are give...
Monday, September 19, 2022

The sex of human experimenters influences mouse behaviors and neural responses.

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As I was scanning a recent nature neuroscience table of contents, the title of this item elicited an immediate “What the f…..?” reaction, s...