Deric Bownds
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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.
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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 ( 2579 )
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The Perceptual Primacy of Feeling
A fascinating perspective from Conwell et al. (open source). Affectless visual machines explain a majority of variance in human visually evoked affect:... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Even More Cheerful Reading....on Civilizational War and Oligarchic Technocracy.
I hesitate to add to the ongoing flow of negativity in the infosphere, but I will pass on my edited ChatGPT 4o summaries of articles by Venkatesh Rao and Timoth... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
We Are Towers of Fantasies
Another cryptic clip from my personal journal:We are built of predictive fantasies at every level of our being - from single cells up through transient... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Structural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Group Cohesion in Primates
I pass on the abstract of a draft version of a new article by Robin Dunbar that I am reading through. It will appear in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
A Human Machine Writes
Scanning back through previous MindBlog posts, I came across the following paragraph what I wrote and posted on 7/24/24. I like it, and decided to post it again... Read more
Posted on 05 February 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
“Now Is the Time of Monsters”
I pass on links to two articles in the same vein, one by Ezra Klein, the other by Ventkatesh Rao, with Klein noting how we are facing four epoch-changing events... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Tokens of Sanity
I repeat my September 29, 2024 "Tokens of sanity" post with a few edits: -Being the calm space in which nothing can hurry -A animal body that can dissociate... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Everything We Experience Comes from Inside
I pass on this cryptic paragraph from my personal journal:Everything we experience is coming from inside us - our illusion of having a self, our sense of agency. Read more
Posted on 29 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Regions of Our Brains Making Multiple Predictions of Others' Actions.
I want to point to an excellent review and summary by Lin and Wittmann in Trends in Neurosciences of work by Ma et al. in J.Neurosci. Read more
Posted on 27 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How Much Does Language Shape Our Thinking?
I want to pass on this link to Manvir Singh's article in The New Yorker which has the title of this post. I enjoyed reading the article. Read more
Posted on 24 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Birth of Aspirational Multiethnic Populism
I have pulled some clips from an excellent substack piece by Yascha Mounk to cement and archive his main points for myself and also pass on to MindBlog readers. Read more
Posted on 22 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Poof! I'm 15-20 Years Younger...
A Wall Street Journal article recently pointed me to two websites using AI to estimate one's biological age. So....I took a selfie of my 82 year old face with m... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Neurobiology of Aging
I want to point to the Jan. 8 issue of the journal "Neuron" which is largely devoted to the neuroscience of aging. A number of its review articles are open... Read more
Posted on 17 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Origin of Color Categories
Garside et al. make observations suggesting that cognitive mechanisms such as language are required for the expression of consensus color... Read more
Posted on 15 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Is Critical Race Theory an Inversion of History?
John Ellis, who says yes, is a professor emeritus of German literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz (and author of “A Short History of Relations... Read more
Posted on 13 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Breathing During Sleep Orchestrates Hippocampal Nested Sleep Oscillations...
A fascinating correlation is found by Sheriff et al. Their abstract:Nested sleep oscillations, emerging from asynchronous states in coordinated bursts, are... Read more
Posted on 10 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Predictive Coding for Social Perception
Rittershofer et al. introduce a special issue of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews titled "Neurobiology of Social Interactions Across Species. Read more
Posted on 08 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Romantic Relationships Matter More to Men Than to Women
I pass on the abstract of an interesting manuscript that has been accepted by Behavioral and Brain Science, by Wahring et al. : Women are often viewed as more... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Children as Agents of Cultural Adaption
When I scroll through some of the social medial sites (Instagram, Tik-Tok, X, YouTube, etc.) used by today's teenagers and their influencers I feel I am visitin... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How Our Brain Networks Are Reconfigured by a Cortisol Increase 30-45 Min After...
Zeng et al. offer a fascinating account of how the rise in our body cortisol levels 30-45 min after waking orchestrates a reconfiguration of brain networks... Read more
Posted on 01 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE