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.
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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 -
Riding Other People's Coattails.
Another interesting bit from Psychological Science: Two laboratory experiments and one dyadic study of ongoing relationships of romantic partners examined how... Read more
Posted on 03 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Willpower and Abundance - The Case for Less.
I wanted to pass on some clips from Tim Wu's sane commentary in The New Republic on the recent Diamandis and Kotler book "Abundance: The Future Is Better Than... Read more
Posted on 02 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Overearning
HHere is an interesting study from Hsee et al on our tendency to keeping working to earn more than we need for happiness, at the expense of that happiness. Read more
Posted on 01 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Slippery Slope of Fear
LeDoux makes some useful comments on confusion one encounters in studies of fear, especially involving the amygdala, a clip: ‘Fear’ is used scientifically in tw... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Lessons Learned from a Chaos and Comlexity Seminar.
For ~ 15 years I have participated in the weekly Chaos and Complexity seminar at the Univ. of Wisconsin organized by physics professor Clint Sprott, and have... Read more
Posted on 29 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Teleological Reasoning About Nature: Intentional Design Or Relational...
Ojalehto et al. offer an interesting analysis of assumptions about our reasoning about natural phenomena. Some slightly edited clips from the abstract and paper... Read more
Posted on 26 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Brain Activity Correlating with Future Antisocial Activity.
From Aharoni et al.: Identification of factors that predict recurrent antisocial behavior is integral to the social sciences, criminal justice procedures, and... Read more
Posted on 25 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Body Posture Modulates Action Perception.
From Zimmermann et al: Recent studies have highlighted cognitive and neural similarities between planning and perceiving actions. Read more
Posted on 24 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Quiet - the World of Introverts.
I recently visited my year old grandson in Austin, TX., who turns out to be my opposite on Jerome Kagan's scale of temperamental introversion/extraversion. Read more
Posted on 22 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
To Reader THW, Who Commented on the Free Will, Continued... Post, Please Read
I hope I correctly recall THW as the blogger name of the person who submitted a comment on the previous post. On the road between Austin Tx. Read more
Posted on 20 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Free Will, Continued - Prior Unconscious Brain Activity Predicts Choices for...
I've been running a thread on free will and neuroscience in this blog, recently noting comments by Nahmias: ...As long as people understand that discoveries... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Showing Where Moral Intent is Determined in Our Brains.
Interesting work from Koster-Hale et al: Intentional harms are typically judged to be morally worse than accidental harms. Distinguishing between intentional... Read more
Posted on 18 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Brain Training Games Don't Actually Make You Smarter.
Wow...after having done several posts uncritically passing on studies by Jaeggi and others claiming that games to improve working memory, such as the n-Back... Read more
Posted on 17 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Older Brains - Just as Much Nerve Firing, but Scrambled Connections?
A group of colleagues at Imperial College London and Tsinghua University in Beijing have fitted glass windows on the skulls of old and young mice. Read more
Posted on 16 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
A Review - Mindfulness Meditation and Our Brain's Default Versus Attentional...
I've been doing some homework on potential topics to work up into a lecture, one of them being brain correlates of various meditative, attentional, or default... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Why Old Folks More Easy Lose Their Way,
Wiener et al. make observations that shed light on why older people have more difficulty finding their car in a shopping mall's large parking lot if they exit... Read more
Posted on 12 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Defining When a Visual Stimulus Become Conscious to Us.
Llinás and collaborators do a nice dissection of our conscious versus unconscious visual processing and note the timing (240 milliseconds) of a brain signa... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Your Smartphone, Your Social Brain, and Your Vagus Nerve.
I am always struck, when I go a local Starbucks for my noon coffee or do a happy hour at a local bar, that the great majority of those present are staring... Read more
Posted on 10 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE