Deric Bownds

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2628 )

• How Our Brain Cortex Changes in the Transition from Childhood to Adolescence.

  This open source article from Dong et al. has some excellent summary graphics: Significance Here, we describe age-dependent shifts in the macroscale organizatio... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Graphic Depictions of an Integrative Model of Mind

  

  To hopefully enhance the chance that you will pay attention to the creative and seminal thinking in the open source Laukkonen and Slagter review article whose... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Stable Individual Differences in Infants’ Responses to Violations of Intuitive...

  Interesting observations by Perez and Feigenson: Infants look longer at impossible or unlikely events than at possible events. Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Place in the Brain for the Sense of ‘self’

  Fascinating observations from Parvizi et al, whose findings provide a causal link between the right anterior and dorsal posteromedial cortex (PMC) and the... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• From Many to (n)one: Meditation and the Plasticity of the Predictive Mind

  I had a chat with my former University of Wisconsin colleague Richard Davidson during my visit to Madison, WI last week, and he pointed me to an excellent open... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Psilocybin Induces Rapid and Persistent Growth of Dendritic Spines in Frontal...

  

  Interesting results from Shao et al.: Highlights • Psilocybin ameliorates stress-related behavioral deficit in mice • Psilocybin increases spine... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Albert Einstein Quotes

  I am sending on some juicy Albert Einstein quotes posted by one of the members of the Madison Wisconsin book group that I still belong to... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Evolutionary Models of Financial Markets.

  Levin and Lo's introduction of a PNAS special issue on evolutionary models of financial markets is an interesting read. A few clips: The brilliant evolutionary... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Giving Help to Others May Increase Your Life Span.

  An interesting analysis from Chen et al.: Significance Social support is a key contributor to mortality risk, with effects comparable in magnitude (though... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Our 'Self' Extends Vastly Beyond Our Brain.

  I want to pass on two interesting articles that review how the self we usually take to be largely inside our heads (somewhere behind the eyes) in fact has... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A.I. Should Be Afraid of Us.

  Alan Burdick does a nice summary of some recent work on interactions between humans and artificial intelligence algorithms designed to appear empathetic:... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Your Blood Proteins Can Tell You the Best Kind of Exercise for Your Body

  Since I am heading into my 80th year, and realizing that any further years must be regarded as a gift from nature, I'm attentive to anything that NYTimes "Phys... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Equality and Equity in the Life Sciences

  After yesterday's heavy post describing 'Four Americas.' - with the last listed being 'Justice America' - rising out of the age of the Millenials and... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Four Americas

  I want to recommend that MindBlog readers have a look at George Packer's essay in the Atlantic presenting a condensed version of arguments in his new book,... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Social Media Isn't the problem...We Are.

  

  Mark Manson is one really smart guy. I have to pass on a precis of a nicely structured item pointed to in his weekly newsletter:He begin his piece by recalling... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Storytelling Increases Oxytocin and Positive Emotions, Decreases Cortisol and...

  From Brockington et al.: Storytelling is a distinctive human characteristic that may have played a fundamental role in humans’ ability to bond and navigate... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Cultural Evolution of Genetic Heritability

  Behavioral and Brain Sciences has accepted an article from Uchiyama et al., whose abstract I copy below, and invites the submission of commentary proposals. Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• We’ve Been Great at Extending Our Lives, but Not at Ending Them.

  Steven Pinker does a review of Steven Johnson's recent book "Extra Life - A Short History of Living Longer," whose subject matter overlaps considerably with... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Making the Hard Problem of Consciousness Easier

  

  Yet another morsel of text for consciousness mavens. Melloni et al. (open source) describe efforts to narrow down on which of several current theories better... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Inequality is a Law of Nature

  DeDeo and Hobson do a commentary on a model developed by Kawakatsu et al. (open source) that explains the emergence of hierarchy in networked endorsement... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE