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 ( 2497 )
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Our Memory Can Be Selectively Rewritten During Its Reconsolidation.
Chan and LaPaglia make an interesting observation in humans that had previously only been reported in animal studies. We can mess with an existing declarative... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Private Behaviors from Public Records...
The exposure of the PRISM surveillance system by Edward Snowden gave me a sort of "So what else is new?" reaction... I thought we knew this unfortunate stuff wa... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Changes as an Autonomic Nervous System Ages 11 Years - The "Wild Divine" is a Bi...
Just after I retired from being a Univ. of Wisconsin department chair in 2001 I bought a set of finger sensors that fit on one's three middle fingers to report... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Preventing Alzheimer’s Associated Brain Cell Atrophy with B Vitamin Treatment.
I pass this on because it seems like a very striking result. Douaud et al. find that high-dose B-vitamin treatment (folic acid 0.8 mg, vitamin B6 20 mg,... Read more
Posted on 10 June 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Visions of Our High-tech Future: Julian Assange, Jaron Lanier, Et Al. on...
The book by Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, "The New Digital Age" is a rosy scenario of our high-tech future that many have found a bit creepy and... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
We Can Learn New Information During Sleep.
Arzi et al. have devised a nice demonstration of how we can learn new information during our sleep. They paired pleasant and unpleasant odors with different... Read more
Posted on 07 June 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Childhood Self-control Predicts Health, Wealth, and Public Safety
An international collaboration between researchers at universities in the US, UK, Canada, and New Zealand has generated this study, which speaks for itself... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Chemistry of Protecting Our Brains by Fasting.
Actually, I'm making a big assumption in the post title... namely that the results obtained by Gräff et al. in mice would extrapolate to similar finding in the... Read more
Posted on 05 June 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Long-term Improvement of Brain Function and Cognition with Brain Stimulation...
A group of collaborators from the University of Oxford and Innsbruck Medical University have published an observation that simple transcranial random noise... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
When More Support is Less....
Finkel and Fitzsimons, whose work I mentioned in a post several years ago, do a review of studies showing that the children of parents who generously finance an... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Giant, Glowing Plastic Brain on Wheels
Even though I'm usually a curmudgeon about brain hype, Obama's Brain initiative, etc., I have to admire the enthusiasm and persistence of CUNY college senior... Read more
Posted on 30 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How We Work: 'brain Waves' Versus Modern Phrenology
Alexander et al. have analyzed data from magnetoencephalogram (MEG), electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrocorticogram (ECoG), focusing on globally synchronous... Read more
Posted on 29 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Training Our Ability to Make Decisions on Uncertain Outcomes.
When making decisions, we often retrieve a limited set of items from memory. These retrieved items provide evidence for competing options. Read more
Posted on 28 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Renewing Our Brain's Ability to Make Decisions.
Our dopamine neurons, which enable enable our brains to make better choices, based on outcomes, gradually die off as part of the normal aging process. Read more
Posted on 24 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Limits of Empathy
I thought I would follow up the Monday's post on well being, kindness, happiness and all that good stuff by noting a piece on how feel-good energy can lead us... Read more
Posted on 22 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Transferring from Google Reader to Feedly
I've just finished editing and culling the "Other Mind Blogs" list in the right column of this blog. If you are now getting the feeds of any of these or... Read more
Posted on 21 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
On Well-being - An Orgy of Good Energy Last Week in Madison, Wisconsin.
In spite of slightly flippant title for this post, I really do believe this is good stuff. The Dali Lama paid a two day visit to Madison Wisconsin last week,... Read more
Posted on 20 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
On Continuing MindBlog - Drawing Personal Structure from Sampling the Digital...
The responses in comments and emails to my ‘scratching my head about mindblog’ post are telling me that my small contributions are valued, with some making it... Read more
Posted on 18 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Deric’s MindBlog Spends Time in the Past...in the Future?
The past: I’ve been spending the past two weeks in a former life. I was in Seattle last week to attend the annual meeting of ARVO (Assoc. Read more
Posted on 15 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
MindBlog in Seattle This Week - Hiatus in Posts
There will be a hiatus in MindBlog posts for awhile. I'm spending this week at an ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology) meeting where a... Read more
Posted on 06 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE