Deric Bownds

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2628 )

• Poof! I'm 15-20 Years Younger...

  

  A Wall Street Journal article recently pointed me to two websites using AI to estimate one's biological age. So....I took a selfie of my 82 year old face with m... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Neurobiology of Aging

  I want to point to the Jan. 8 issue of the journal "Neuron" which is largely devoted to the neuroscience of aging. A number of its review articles are open... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Origin of Color Categories

  Garside et al. make observations suggesting that cognitive mechanisms such as language are required for the expression of consensus color... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Is Critical Race Theory an Inversion of History?

  John Ellis, who says yes, is a professor emeritus of German literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz (and author of “A Short History of Relations... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Breathing During Sleep Orchestrates Hippocampal Nested Sleep Oscillations...

  A fascinating correlation is found by Sheriff et al. Their abstract:Nested sleep oscillations, emerging from asynchronous states in coordinated bursts, are... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Predictive Coding for Social Perception

  Rittershofer et al. introduce a special issue of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews titled "Neurobiology of Social Interactions Across Species. Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Romantic Relationships Matter More to Men Than to Women

  I pass on the abstract of an interesting manuscript that has been accepted by Behavioral and Brain Science, by Wahring et al. : Women are often viewed as more... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Children as Agents of Cultural Adaption

  When I scroll through some of the social medial sites (Instagram, Tik-Tok, X, YouTube, etc.) used by today's teenagers and their influencers I feel I am visitin... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Our Brain Networks Are Reconfigured by a Cortisol Increase 30-45 Min After...

  Zeng et al. offer a fascinating account of how the rise in our body cortisol levels 30-45 min after waking orchestrates a reconfiguration of brain networks... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Oliver Sacks - The Machine Stops

  A slightly edited MindBlog post from 2019 worth another read: I want to point to a wonderful short essay written by Oliver Sacks before his death from cancer, i... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Steven Fry: "AI: A Means to an End Or a Means to Our End?"

  I have to pass on to MindBlog readers and my future self this link to a brilliant lecture by Steven Fry. It is an engaging and entertaining analysis, steeped... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Sculpting New Visual Categories into the Human Brain.

  Fascinating work from Iordan et al. (open source) I pass on the abstract and the first paragraph of the article that makes more clear what they are... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Analysis of the Dumbing Down of Language on Social Media Over Time

  Di Marco et al. (open source) do a comparative analysis of 8 different social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Voat, Reddit, Usenet, Gab, and... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Sustainability of Animal-Sourced Foods - How to Deal with Farting Cows...

  I've just read through a number of articles in a Special Feature section of the most recent issue of PNAS on the future of animal and plant sourced food. After ... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Neurons in the Amygdala Jointly Encode the Status of Interacting Individuals

  From Lee et al.:Highlights-Monkeys infer the social status of conspecifics from videos of dyadic interactions -During fixations, neural populations signal the... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• An AI Framework for Neural–behavioral Modeling

  Work of Sani et al. (open access) is reported in the Oct. 2024 issue of Nature Neuroscience. From the editor's summary:Neural dynamics are complex and... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Battle of the Bots - AI Gets Creative with Brain Hacks

  This post is meant to archive my recent exercise of asking ChatGPT 4o, Perplexity, Gemini+ advanced, and Anthropic (which does not offer links to its... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Magnetic Soft Microrobots for Erectile Dysfunction Therapy!

  I can't resist passing on these abstracts describing work reported by a large number of researchers at South China University of Technology, Guangzhou... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Future of Warfare

  Passing on an article from today's WSJ that I want to save, using MindBlog as my personal archive: OpenAI Forges Tie-Up To Defense Industry OpenAI , the... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Have Hope - We're Not There Yet...

  Another clear eyed article on our current political climate that I'm saving in this post to look up later. Trump Will Overplay His Hand. Here’s How to Be Ready.... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE