Deric Bownds

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2661 )

• Stepping Backwards Enhances Cognitive Control.

  From Koch et al., some interesting work on the role of body locomotion in the recruitment of control processes.: In the most fundamental and literal sense,... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Are You Holding Your Breath?

  Note; This is a repeat of a post that I did on Jan. 28, 2008. Its theme led me to develop a lecture titled "Are you holding your breath - Structures of arousal... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• “Design Fiction” Skirts Reality to Provoke Discussion and Debate

  I want to suggest that readers have a look at David Adams Science and Culture essay in the June 16 issues of PNAS. Here is its beginning: In October 2015,... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Followup on MindBlog's Istanbul Lecture on Our Subjective "I"

  

  Forgive me for inflicting my nostalgia trip on you as I do the following re-post from Oct. 18, 2010. 78 year old Deric is struck by the more grandiose professor... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Dynamic Views of MindBlog

  In my review of old blog posts I've come across mention of a link I placed at the top right corner os this page...Dynamic Views of MindBlog, which disappeared a... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Training Internal Resilience

  I want to point to an interesting article by Eva Holland on relieving trauma, which is very relevant to the potential mental0health fallout from living through... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How We Get Stronger.

  Gretchen Reynolds points to studies on weight lifting monkeys that show weight training initially prompts increases in muscle strength by increasing neural inpu... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Mindblog Does Another Anti-aging Experiment.

  This is a repeat of a MindBlog post done Oct. 10, 2010, encountered during an on-and-off review I'm doing of old blog posts. Five comments on the post can be... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Our Brain's Chemistry of Love Neutralizes Its Chemistry of Fear.

  Arthur Brooks, in his biweekly Atlantic Column, offers some very sane comments on the underlying fear that virtually all of us experience, especially in this... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Mindblog's Back Office Has Expanded

  

  I want to introduce two new young MindBlog editorial assistants, Markus and Martin, three month old Abbysinian kittens who are in training to be the next... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Benefits of Exercise on Aging Brain Obtained Without Exercise - by Plasma...

  There is a large literature on beneficial effects of exercise on brain health in agings adults such as improving memory and cognition. Mouse experiments by... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• We Navigate with Stereo Smell

  From Wu et al.: Significance The human brain exploits subtle differences between the inputs to the paired eyes and ears to construct three-dimensional... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Enlightenment Returns.

  OhMyGawd..... I just came across the following MindBlog post from March 31, 2009, celebrating Obama's statement on restoring government guided by rationality an... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Stress Triggers Inflammation

  Acute stress seems to amplify inflammatory disease despite the fact many stress hormones such as cortisol actually suppress the immune system. Qing et al. Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Gay Scientists Isolate Christian Gene.

  Another of my old posts, from March 18, 2009: My thanks to friend Mark Weber for bringing this satire to my attention. Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Nearest Neighbors Shape Educational Attainment Regardless of Class Origin.

  From Hedefalk and Dribe: Significance Much neighborhood research has focused on contemporary and segregated cities in the United States, but less on small and... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• An Interlude of Grieg's Lyric Pieces

  Almost every afternoon around 4 p.m. I open up my Steinway B and read some piano scores stored on my iPad. It takes very little effort to do a video of the... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lower Socioeconomic Status and the Acceleration of Aging.

  An analysis from Steptoe and Zaninotto, who show that lower wealth correlates with accelerated aging independently of the presence of health conditions:... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Exaggerated Meta-perceptions Predict Intergroup Hostility Between American...

  An interesting study from Moore-Berg et al. showing that Democrats think (have the meta-perception) that Republicans view them more negatively than they actuall... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Brain Correlates of the Muting of Our Emotions as We Age.

  

  (This is a re-post of the MindBlog post of Oct. 1, 2008, as relevant today as then.) My boyfriend in the early 19980’s was a pharmacy graduate student whose... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE