Deric Bownds

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• Our Anterior Insula Signals Salience and Deviations from Expectations Via...

  Haufler et al. show that the insula signals salience and prediction errors via amplitude modulations of beta bursts (~15-40 Hertz, or cycles per second), which... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Brain Chemistry Underlying Mental Exhaustion.

  Emily Underwood does a review of work by Wiehler et al. (open source) on the brain chemistry underlying mental fatigue, also describing several reservations... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Even Novices Intuit Complex Music Theory,

  Bridget Alex does a nice summary of work by Weis and Peretz showing that people without musical training naturally improvise melodies that have hallmarks of... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Reproducability Crisis in Machine Learning Systems That Inform Immediate Or...

  I have by now accumulated a list of articles on a growing debate over naive scientists, especially social scientists, botching their research by using machine... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Alcohol, Neuronal Plasticity, and Mitochondrial Trafficking

  Hernandez and Kaun provide a nice description of work by Knabbe et al. with summary graphics. Here is the start of their text: Consumption of alcohol creates a... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Systematic Review of Microdosing - Research on Low Dose Psychedelics

  I pass on the link to this review by Polito and Liknaitzky. Their abstract: The use of low doses of psychedelic substances (microdosing) is attracting increasin... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Music Training Enhances Auditory and Linguistic Processing.

  From Neves et al.: Highlights • Systematic review and meta-analysis of neurobehavioral effects of music training. • We ask whether music training... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Old Hearts Learn New Tricks

  Nusinovich's summary in Science Magazine of work by Lerchenmüller et al.: Aging-related diseases such as heart failure and other cardiovascular disorders are th... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Dissecting and Improving Motor Skill Acquisition in Older Adults

  From the introduction of Elvira et al. (open source): We designed a study intended to identify (i) the main factors leading to differences in motor skill... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Motor Learning Without Movement

  Fascinating work from Kim et al. on the influence of the prediction errors that are essential in calibrating actions of our predictive minds:Significance Our... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Brain Changes, Or the Absence Thereof, Associated with Mindfulness Training.

  Richard Davidson and his collaborators (open source, with useful graphics) inject a note of sanity into evaluating widely reported claims of brain changes... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Wolf Attacks Predict Far-right Voting

  Under MindBlog's category of "random curious stuff" I couldn't resist passing on the following bit of quirky political analysis from von Hohenberg and Hager:... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Emotional Contagion and Prosocial Behavior

  Keysers et al. do an open source review of studies on emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents, whose brain regions necessary for emotional... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Efficiently Irrational: Deciphering the Riddle of Human Choice

  Highlights of an open source article from Paul Glimcher: A central question for decision-making scholars is: why are humans and animals so predictably... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The End of the World is Just the Beginning

  The title of this post repeats the title of Peter Zeihan's latest book, which I've just finished reading and found utterly fascinating and entertaining, in a... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Widespread Ripples Synchronize Human Cortical Activity During Sleep, Waking,...

  I pass on the summaries of work by Dickey et al.: Significance Different elements of a memory, or any mental event, are encoded in locations distributed across... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Restoring the Aged Brain with Cerebrospinal Fluid.

  The transfer of blood plasma from young animals to old animals, has been shown to reverse aging changes in the brain, and now Iram et al. Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How the Organization of Generalized Knowledge Promotes Memory.

  From Wing et al.: Significance What we remember is shaped by what we already know. For example, remembering the angelfish from a recent aquarium visit is... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• fNIRS - Functional Near Iinfrared Spectroscopy as a Monitor of Brain Activity

  Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, requires that a subject remain still for an extended period within the confines of a large, noisy magnet... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience - a Fascinating Journal, Many Open...

  Rather than charging in to do separate posts on several of the following fascinating articles, I pass them on for readers to click and choose abstracts and... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE