Deric Bownds

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• Two Americas

  

  I've been trying to dial down MindBlog's mention of our current domestic turmoil and debate, but I can't resist passing on this clip from Krugman's recent... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Douthat's Guide to Finding Faith

  I recommend that you read through Douthat's elegant exposition of the continuing relevance of some form of religious faith. I paste in below a few clips that... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Well-being of the Aging Brain - from the Univ.of Wisc. Center for Healty Minds

  I am a supporter of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, which was established and is lead by one of my former colleagues,... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Research Experiences and Social Justice

  In the Editor's Choice section of the July 23 issue of Science Magazine Melissa McCarntney does a brief description of a biomedical research training program... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• YouTube Algorithms Do Not Appear to Drive Attention to Radical Content.

  From Hosseinmardi et al.; Significance Daily share of news consumption on YouTube, a social media platform with more than 2 billion monthly users, has... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Castration Delays Aging

  I pass on this nugget by Beverly Purnell in the Editor's Choice section of this week's Science Magazine noting an interesting paper by Sugrue et al. First her... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• What is Our Brain's Spontaneous Activity For?

  Continuing in MindBlog's recent thread on the predictive brain (see here and here), I pass on highlights of an opinion piece by Pezzulo et al. Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Connections Between Two Brain Regions That Are Required for Consciousness Ar...

  Important work from Spindler et al.: Significance Understanding the neural bases of consciousness is of basic scientific and clinical importance. Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How the Insiders Win - Philanthropy, Advocacy, and Profit.

  From Bertrand et al., a study showing how U.S. Federal rulemaking based on considering "independent viewpoints" is corrupted: Information is central to designin... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Electromagnetic Radiation in the Wireless Signal Range Increases Wakefulness in...

  Liu et al. (open source) find that electromagnetic radiation (EMR) in the wireless signal range used by our cell phones, laptops, and Wi-Fi routers can... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Seeing Others React to Threats Triggers Our Own Internal Threat Responses.

  From Haaker et al. (open source): Significance Social transmission of threat information by observation is effective in humans and other animals. Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Historical Language Records Reveal Societal Depression and Anxiety in Past Two...

  Fascinating work from Bollen et al. (open source): Significance Can entire societies become more or less depressed over time? Here, we look for the historical... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Our Gut Microbiome Pattern Reflects Healthy Aging and Survival

  Interesting analysis by Wilmanski et al.: The gut microbiome has important effects on human health, yet its importance in human ageing remains unclear. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• 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