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 ( 2495 )
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Maybe Trump’s Behavior is Explained by a Simple Machine Learning (A.I.)...
Burton offers an intriguing explanation for our inability to predict Donald Trump’s next move suggesting: ...that Trump doesn’t operate within conventional huma... Read more
Posted on 30 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Mechanism of Adult Brain Changes Caused by Early Life Stress.
Peña et al., working with mice, demonstrate a mechanisms by which early life stress encodes lifelong susceptibility to stress by changing a reward region o... Read more
Posted on 29 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Positive Trends Over Time in Personality Traits as Well as in Intelligence.
Jokela et al. add an interesting dimension to numerous studies that have shown a steady increase in people's intelligence over the past 100 years, concluding... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
It's Complicated....more on Sapolsky's New Book.
In a recent MindBlog post I urged you to read Robert Sapolsky’s new book, "Behave - The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst. Read more
Posted on 27 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Why It is Impossible to Tune a Piano.
Here is a 'random curious stuff' item, per the MindBlog description above. I want to pass on this great explanation of why physics requires that piano notes... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Sorting out Complex Thoughts and Messy Emotions
Here is a nice perky piece from Stephen Matheson, editor of Cell Reports, on the genetics of behavior, which I pass along in its entirety (references are in... Read more
Posted on 23 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Dogs Can Know What You Know.
Catela et al. offer evidence in dogs for theory of mind ability (recognizing that others have a different perspective, shown for humans, apes, and corvids). Read more
Posted on 22 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Metabolic and Physical Decline That Occurs During Aging Promoted by a DNA...
Damage to our DNA accumulates during our aging, and Park et al. show a link between this damage and the loss of metabolic function associated with physical... Read more
Posted on 21 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
A Conclusion from One of My Lectures.
While mulling over possible topics I might develop for a next lecture, I have looked back over previous efforts on dericbownds.net and found several bits of tex... Read more
Posted on 20 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Some Outstanding Books on the Biology of Our Behaviors.
If you are wanting to find a humorous, fascinating, engaging, authoritative account of why we humans behave the way we do, you should immediately buy a copy of... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Watching Our Brains Construct Linguistic Phrases
From Nelson et al.: Significance According to most linguists, the syntactic structure of sentences involves a tree-like hierarchy of nested phrases, as in the... Read more
Posted on 16 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Brain-to-Brain Symmetry Tracks Classroom Interactions.
From Dikker et al.: Highlights •We report a real-world group EEG study, in a school, during normal class activities •EEG was recorded from 12... Read more
Posted on 15 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Our Mental Models Predict Emotion Transitions.
Thornton and Tamir (open source) demonstrate that we use mental models to allow us to predict, during a currently perceived emotion in another person, the next... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
A Chemical Link Between Early Life Stress and Adult Schizophrenia
A massive collaboration finds that schizophrenia-like symptoms induced by early life stress in mice correlates with expression of a DNA altering enzyme. Read more
Posted on 13 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
You're Less Likely to Check Facts in a Social Media Crowd Than When Alone.
Jun et al. (open source) make a stab at characterizing the societal problem of "fake" news: Significance The dissemination of unverified content (e.g. Read more
Posted on 12 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Cracking the Brain's Code for Facial Identity.
Chang and Tsao appear to have figured out how facial identity is represented in the brain: Highlights •Facial images can be linearly reconstructed using... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Trust and the Poverty Trap.
from Jachimowicz et al: Significance More than 1.5 billion people worldwide live in poverty. Even in the United States, 14% live below the poverty line. Read more
Posted on 08 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Heart Trumps the Head : Desirability Bias in Political Belief Revision.
From Tappin et al. Understanding how individuals revise their political beliefs has important implications for society. In a pre-registered study (N=900) we... Read more
Posted on 07 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Opioids Regulate Oxytocin Enhancement of Social Attention.
From Monte et al. work suggesting that the effectiveness of oxytocin in treating social dysfunction might be enhanced by the simultaneous administration of... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Visual Category Selectivity is Innate.
Interesting work from Hurk et al., who find that the brains of people blind since birth show category specific activity patterns for faces, scenes, body parts,... Read more
Posted on 05 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE