Deric Bownds
These articles, from Deric's MindBlog at http://mindblog.dericbownds.net report new ideas and work on mind, brain, and behavior - as well as random curious stuff.
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Deric Bownds' MindBlog
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/
This blog reports new ideas and work on mind, brain, and behavior - as well as random curious stuff.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 2501 )
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Human Cooperation in Dynamic Networks.
Melamed et al. show that the emergence of cooperative networks of humans does not require knowledge of the reputations of participants, only the severing of tie... Read more
Posted on 21 February 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Welcome to the Post Text Future (of the New Authoritarian State?)
White males (and the republican party) seem to perceive that the most effective way to maintain their current prominence as they continue to become a minority o... Read more
Posted on 20 February 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Ancient Origins of Walking on Land - the Walking Skate.
From Jung et al., in the Feb. 8 issue of Cell, report finding that the circuits underlying vertebrate ambulation on dry land appear in a skate many millions of... Read more
Posted on 19 February 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Computers No Better Than Humans at Predicting Who Should Go to Jail.
I want to point to two pieces that offer a commentary on our trust in using algorithms to predict human behavior rather than old fashioned human judgement. In... Read more
Posted on 16 February 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Afraid of A.I.? Be Very Afraid of Quantum Computing....
Several recent articles point to a quiet revolution that is receiving relatively little notice - the development of quantum computers that may operate 100,000... Read more
Posted on 15 February 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
A Valentine's Day Musical Offering - Respighi's Intermezzo Serenata
A piano transcription by Respighi of the Intermezzo Serenata from his comic opera Re Enzo. Making a recording of a piano piece I like motivates me to learn it ... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Mind Treats on the Web.
This MindBlog is a miniscule drop in a large internet pond of excellent and interesting sites describing new mind research and ideas. I am aware of only a... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
“The Rich Are Different from You and Me..” - the Psychology of Inequality
In the mythical exchange between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway responds “Yes, they have more money.” Who are ‘they’? Read more
Posted on 12 February 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Our Body Tissues Crosstalk During Exercise.
Gretchen Reynolds points to fascinating work showing that exercise causes cells to release tiny lipid coated hollow spheres (vesicles) containing protein... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Brain Correlates of Our Ability to Think Creatively
I am passing on the significance statements (the links take you to the whole abstracts) from two fascinating pieces on the brain correlates of our ability to... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
MindBlog's 12th Anniversary. Blogs as Relics Or Rebirths?
Today marks the 12th anniversary of MindBlog's start. In yesterday's MindBlog post I passed on Andrew Sullivan's comments on the demise of blogs, noting... Read more
Posted on 06 February 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Blogging Golden Age
I want to pass on this piece of writing from a series of commentaries posted by Andrew Sullivan at New York Magazine. He suggests that the decline of blogging... Read more
Posted on 05 February 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Mental Autonomy - Developing a ‘culture of Consciousness’.
One of MindBlog's threads has been presentation and discussion of work on the default mode network of our brains that mediates our mind wandering. Read more
Posted on 02 February 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How to Goose Your Memory.
The abstract from Inman et al., "Direct electrical stimulation of the amygdala enhances declarative memory in humans." They show that stimulation of the amygdal... Read more
Posted on 01 February 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Commentary on Devolution of Advanced Societies Towards Tribalism.
I have been wanting to point to a number of Op-Ed articles that try to make a story to explain the apparent devolution of many advanced societies towards... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Corporate Social Responsibility to Counter the Sociopathy of Capitalism?
Sorkin describes a striking letter sent out to business leaders by BlackRock, the largest investment firm in the world. The article and letter are worth a read. Read more
Posted on 30 January 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How Our Bones Regulate Our Weight.
Jansson et al. report that bones have a gravity sensor that initiates metabolic changes that compensate for a sudden change in body weight to return the body... Read more
Posted on 29 January 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Taming Modern Frankensteins
The Jan. 12 issue of Science Magazine has an interesting section of articles on the long shadow cast by Mary Shelley’s 200 year old Frankenstein tale. Read more
Posted on 26 January 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Preferences for Moral Vs. Immoral Traits in Others Are Conditional
Wow, talk about work relevant to our current political situation...where some people (like myself) can not understand how anyone could support a president who i... Read more
Posted on 25 January 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Self Protection from Social Media Feedback.
Rodman et al. show that adults and adolescents deal with peer feedback in very different ways: Significance The growing popularity of social media, especially... Read more
Posted on 24 January 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE