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.
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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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The Changing Psychology of Culture from 1800 Through 2000.
Greenfield makes use of the Google Books Ngram Viewer to observe a large shift from collectivist to individualist values during this period, as mass migration... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Distinctive Brain Correlates of Brief Compassion Meditation.
This article by Hassenkamp provides a very useful integrative review of, and links to, several articles on brain correlates of mindfulness, empathy, and... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Is Music the Key to Success?
I'm passing this on immediately after reading it. While I have done numerous posts on how music training influences brain development, for example to enhance an... Read more
Posted on 13 October 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Oxytocin Dilates Our Pupils and Enhances Emotion Detection
Interesting work from Leknes et al.: Sensing others’ emotions through subtle facial expressions is a highly important social skill. Read more
Posted on 11 October 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Our Sense of Fairness Changes with Weak Electric Stimulation of Our Prefrontal...
Fascinating work from Ruff et al: All known human societies have maintained social order by enforcing compliance with social norms. The biological mechanisms... Read more
Posted on 09 October 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Psychedelic Drugs Cause Cortical Desynchronization
From Muthukumaraswamy et al., small wonder that it doesn't all hang together during the psychedelic experience: Psychedelic drugs produce profound changes in... Read more
Posted on 08 October 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Better Memory with Less Default Mode Activity
I've done a number of posts on our default mode versus attentional networks (a review is here, for example). Here is the summary and abstract for some... Read more
Posted on 07 October 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Evilicious Humans, Hard-wired for War?
"Evilicious" is the title of a new book self published by Marc Hauser, the Harvard Psychologist forced to resign his position after it was discovered that he ha... Read more
Posted on 04 October 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Information Sharing as a Measure of Brain Consciousness
King et al. make measurements they suggest are a signature of conscious state in awake but noncommunicating patients. I pass on the summary, abstract, and one o... Read more
Posted on 02 October 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Early Emergence of Mature Brain Alarm Circuits in Maternally Deprived Children
Many studies have shown adverse effects of various kinds of childhood deprivation or abuse, with maternal deprivation being one of the most significant. Read more
Posted on 01 October 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Threads of Current Debate: Narcissism, Ills of the World, Scientism, Brain...
I want to pass on some of the products of my TOC (tables of contents) scanning that I’m unlikely to develop into full posts, but that might be of interest to... Read more
Posted on 30 September 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Aspects of Our Musical Experience.
I want to pass on three recent articles I found interesting. The first is a piece by Kawakami in the New York Times on why we like sad music, sumarizing his... Read more
Posted on 27 September 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Theory of Mind and the Mind of the Market
The financial community has been in a striking tizzy over the fact that the Federal Reserve didn't do what they were predicting, i.e. start to dial back on thei... Read more
Posted on 26 September 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Joystick Years - Computer Games and Grey Matter Volume
Sian Lewis summarizes work by Kühn and Gallinat: A new study has used voxel-based morphometry of MRI scans of adult video-game players to investigate whether... Read more
Posted on 25 September 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Compassion - Bridging Practice and Science
Science magazine has an article by Kupferschmidt pointing to the work of Tania Singer, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain... Read more
Posted on 24 September 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Virtues of Coffee and Coffee Shops.
I've been meaning to pass on these two articles that help me justify my addiction to breakfast and noon (but not dinner) coffee. Read more
Posted on 23 September 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Old Farts Perform More Consistenly on Cognitive Tasks Than Younger Adults.
Schmiedek et al. do a demonstration of something we more or less already knew... People often attribute poor performance to having bad days. Read more
Posted on 20 September 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Poulenc Novelette No. 2 - a Bit on the Wild Side
Poulenc's first two novelettes, the one in C major that I posted yesterday, and today's second novelette in B-flat minor, were composed in 1927 and 1928, and... Read more
Posted on 19 September 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Cognitive Benefits of Movement Reduction.
This piece by Warburton et al. shows another example of how musical, artistic, or athletic performance can be enhanced by subtle mimicking of the final... Read more
Posted on 19 September 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Political Extremism is Supported by an Illusion of Understanding.
Fernback et. al. start their interesting article with some nice quotes: Bertrand Russell “The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no... Read more
Posted on 17 September 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE