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 ( 2494 )
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Forget About Our Brains, Even the Most Simple Nerve Networks Defy Understanding.
If the artificial intelligence researchers who want to ‘reverse engineer the brain’ as a model for artificial general intelligence want yet another sobering... Read more
Posted on 24 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Different Flavors of Artificial Intelligence - And, Can We Pull the Plug?
I want to pass on a few summary points from two recent sessions of the Chaos and Complex Systems seminar that I attend at the University of Wisconsin. Read more
Posted on 23 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Race Based Biases in Deception Judgements.
From Lloyd et al.: In six studies (N = 605), participants made deception judgments about videos of Black and White targets who told truths and lies about... Read more
Posted on 22 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Beyond Anger.
A feature of our current political polarization is the pent up anger felt by both far-left and far-right political partisans against each other, sometimes... Read more
Posted on 21 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Hold Your Nose to Prevent Obesity?
Smell clearly affects the anticipation and appreciation of food. Riera et al. show (in mice) that activity in olfactory sensory neurons also influences energy... Read more
Posted on 18 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart
You probably have seen this chart from a NYTimes article by now, but I want to pass it on just in case. Also getting it into the list of MindBlog posts makes... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Neural Correlates of the Positive Effects of Gratitude.
Fox offers a review noting studies showing that gratitude activates area of the medial prefrontal cortex of the brain associated with understanding other... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Exposure to and Recall of Violence Reduce Short-term Memory and Cognitive Control
From Bogliacino et al.: Significance Research on violence has mainly focused on its consequences on individuals’ health and behavior. Read more
Posted on 15 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Leisure Just as Enjoyable Before as After Work is Done.
From O'Brien and Roney: Four studies reveal that (a) people hold a robust intuition about the order of work and leisure and that (b) this intuition is... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Perception of Being Overweight Predicts Future Health and Well-being
An interesting bit from Daly et al.: Identifying oneself as being overweight may be associated with adverse health outcomes, yet prospective tests of this... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
In Group Favoritism Shown by 17 Month Old Infants.
Jin and Baillargeon make observations that suggest an early origin of the 'us and them' perspective being taken to extremes in our current political climate. Read more
Posted on 10 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Redistribution is Supported by Compassion, Envy, and Self Interest, but Not Sens...
A huge collaboration looks at support for redistribution of wealth from an evolutionary psychology perspective: Significance Markets have lifted millions out... Read more
Posted on 09 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Smiles for Love, Sympathy, and War.
From Rychlowska et al.: A smile is the most frequent facial expression, but not all smiles are equal. A social-functional account holds that smiles of reward,... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Why It's a Bad Idea to Tell Students That Words Are Violence
A piece by Haidt and Lukianoff contesting several points made by Lisa Friedman in a much discussed NYTimes Grey Matter essay is worth a read. Read more
Posted on 07 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
A Positive Mood from Listening to Music Broadens Our Auditory Attention.
An addition to the literature from Putkinen et al. expanding on previous findings that positive mood broadens visual attention: Previous studies indicate that... Read more
Posted on 04 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Default Mode Network and the Wandering Mind.
The respective roles of attentional and default mode networks in our brains has been the subject of numerous MindBlog posts (enter 'default mode' in the search... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence
I want to pass on some clips from a very cogent article by Kai-Fu Lee (chairman and chief executive of Sinovation Ventures, a venture capital firm, and the... Read more
Posted on 02 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Buying Time Promotes Happiness.
A nice piece from Whillans et al.: Significance Despite rising incomes, people around the world are feeling increasingly pressed for time, undermining... Read more
Posted on 01 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Cognitive Reappraisal in Frontal Cortex Underlies Placebo Analgesia.
Interesting work from van der Meulen et al.: Placebo analgesia (PA) depends crucially on the prefrontal cortex (PFC), which is assumed to be responsible for... Read more
Posted on 31 July 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Different Languages Use Different Systems of Nerve Cells.
From Xu et al.: A large body of previous neuroimaging studies suggests that multiple languages are processed and organized in a single neuroanatomical system... Read more
Posted on 28 July 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE