Deric Bownds
These articles, from Deric's MindBlog at http://mindblog.dericbownds.net report new ideas and work on mind, brain, and behavior - as well as random curious stuff.
MY BLOGS
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Deric Bownds' MindBlog
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/
This blog reports new ideas and work on mind, brain, and behavior - as well as random curious stuff.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 2494 )
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Why Senior Adults Get Lost More Frequently Than Younger Adults.
Strang et al. identify the brain area whose degeneration with aging underlies the loss of our navigational abilities: Highlights •Grid-cell-like... Read more
Posted on 09 April 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
We Choose What We Want to Hear.
Billig et al. provide a nice example of how we can consciously influence what we perceive, in this case hearing a sequence of pure tones either as individual... Read more
Posted on 06 April 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Reprogramming Fear Responses Outside of Conscious Awareness.
Fascinating work by Taschereau-Dumouchel et al. suggests that our 'hard wired' fear responses can be reprogrammed or attenuated by an unconscious manipulation,... Read more
Posted on 05 April 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
If Resources Are Scarce Infants Choose Ingroup Support Over Fairness.
From Bian et al: Significance Recent research suggests that infants possess principles of fairness and ingroup support. We examined whether 1.5- and 2. Read more
Posted on 04 April 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Is Loneliness a Health Epidemic?
Two recent bits of writing on loneliness: Klinenberg suggests that the 'loneliness epidemic' that has been promoted by numerous recent articles (Britain has... Read more
Posted on 03 April 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Predicting the Effectiveness of Cognitive Therapy with Functional MRI
Reggente et al. do interesting work showing that MRI measurement of functional connectivity patterns in the default mode and visual networks of... Read more
Posted on 02 April 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Young Muscles and Immune Systems in Aging Cyclists.
I pass on the technical abstracts of two striking papers referenced by a Gretchen Reynolds article showing that the leg muscles and immune systems of 55-79... Read more
Posted on 30 March 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How is Tech Dividing Us?
Comments by David Autor during an interview by Nancy Scola: ...it's definitely the case that automation is raising the demand for skilled labor. And the work... Read more
Posted on 29 March 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Logic in Babies.
Halberda does a commentary on work of Cesana-Arlotti et al. showing that one essential form of logical inference, process of elimination, is with the toolkit... Read more
Posted on 28 March 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Different Kinds of Smiles Elicit Different Physiological Responses
Martin et al. show that our stress chemistry (HPA, or hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis) is augmented or dampened by different kinds of smiles: When people ar... Read more
Posted on 27 March 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
YouTube's A.I. Finds That Radicalization Gets More Ad Revenue.
Tufekci points to yet another pathological social consequence of A.I. algorithms designed to make people stay on a website longer, and thus generate more... Read more
Posted on 26 March 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Reputation Age.
I would like to point to this brief essay by Italian philosopher Gloria Origgi, which offers, after its beginning paragraphs (below), several examples of... Read more
Posted on 23 March 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Think You’re Not a Competitor? Think Again.
From Raghabendra et al.: We report a series of experimental studies that investigate the influence of a competition on noncompetitors who do not participate in... Read more
Posted on 22 March 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Brain Coupling During Holding Hands Correlates with Pain Reduction
From Goldstein et al.: The mechanisms underlying analgesia related to social touch are not clear. While recent research highlights the role of the empathy of th... Read more
Posted on 21 March 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Being What We Think We Are.
Gretchen Reynolds points to an interesting article in Health Psychology by Zahrt and Crum. Following up on an earlier article in which Crum and her co-author... Read more
Posted on 20 March 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Rationalizing Undesired Change as Soon as It Takes Effect.
Lauren does interesting work illustrating how our psychological immune system acts to rationalize and make us feel better about changes we don’t like. Read more
Posted on 19 March 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Dying for the Group - a Theory of Extreme Self-sacrifice
I'm on Behavioral and Brain Sciences' mailing list of potential commentators on its forthcoming articles, and now pass on the abstract of a forthcoming article... Read more
Posted on 16 March 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
We Project Our Own Spatial Bias onto Others.
Graziano's group has done an experiment suggesting that our spatial bias in processing objects in the right visual field better than the left (or vice versa,... Read more
Posted on 15 March 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
A Slow Thought Manifesto
I am on Aeon’s mailing list to receive three essays from its archive each day, three more items to scan in a daily stream of emails from aggregators that... Read more
Posted on 14 March 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
On Social Media Lies Spread Faster, Deeper, and More Broadly Than the Truth.
Here is the link to the widely reported open access Science Magazine article by Vosoughi et al. showing that social media propagate false news more rapidly and... Read more
Posted on 13 March 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE