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 ( 2496 )
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Brain Correlates of Third Person Perspective Improving Interactions with...
Interesting work (open source) from Leitner et al.: Previous research suggests that people show increased self-referential processing when they provide criticis... Read more
Posted on 08 May 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Histone Variants Promote Vulnerability to Depressive Behaviors
Lepack et al. find that a particular histone protein variant in the nucleus accumbens contributes to stress susceptibility in mice (histones are highly... Read more
Posted on 05 May 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Watching the Brain Think About Friends.
Work from Wlodarski and Dunbar (open source) produces imaging data suggesting that maintaining friendships may be more cognitively exacting than maintaining... Read more
Posted on 04 May 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
From Learning to Instinct
I pass on a few chunks from the Science Perspective article by Robinson and Barron: An animal mind is not born as an empty canvas: Bottlenose dolphins know how... Read more
Posted on 03 May 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Nature Fix
Suttie points to a recent book from Florence Williams, also reviewed by Jason Mark, that I would like to be able to slow down enough to actually read, rather... Read more
Posted on 02 May 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Brain Stimulation Enhances Memory.
Important work from Ezzyat et al., a potential approach to ameliorating memory loss in dementia: Highlights •Intracranial brain stimulation has variable... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Brain-heart Dialogue Shows How Racism Hijacks Perception
Tsakiris does a nice summary of his work that shows a biological basis for why you’re more than twice as likely as a white person to be unarmed if you’re... Read more
Posted on 28 April 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Underestimating the Value of Being in Another Person's Shoes.
I pass on a bit of the introduction from Zhou et al., and then their abstract: A lot of leaders are coming here, to sit down and visit. I think it’s important... Read more
Posted on 27 April 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
MindBlog is Moving to Austin. Texas
A personal note...the picture is of a crane moving my Steinway B out of our second floor condo in Fort Lauderdale. It's been a good run. Read more
Posted on 26 April 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Reading What the Mind Thinks from How the Eye Sees.
Expressive eye widening (as in fear) and eye narrowing (as in disgust) are associated with opposing optical consequences and serve opposing perceptual functions. Read more
Posted on 25 April 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Brooks on "The Crisis of Western Civilization"
A brief screed by David Brooks, worth a read, notes the decline of a progressive Western civilization narrative that “that people, at least in Europe and North... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
A.I. Better at Predicting Heart Attacks, Learns Implicit Racial and Gender Bias.
Lohr notes a study that suggest we need to develop and "A.I. index" analogous to the Consumer Price Index, to track the pace and spread of artificial... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Study Suggests Social Media Are Not Contributing to Political Polarization.
Bromwich does an interesting piece on increasing political polarization in the US. The number of the 435 house districts in the country competitive for both... Read more
Posted on 20 April 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How to Feel Good - and How Feeling Good Can Be Bad for You.
In case you feel like another click, I pass on these two self-helpy feel-good or happiness bits, in the common list form ... First, a bit from Scelfo noting a... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Scratching is Contagious.
The precis from Science Magazine, followed by the abstract: Observing someone else scratching themselves can make you want to do so. This contagious itching... Read more
Posted on 18 April 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Is "The Stack" the Way to Understand Everything?
When the Apple II computer arrived in 1977, I eagerly took its BASIC language tutorials and began writing simple programs to work with my laboratory’s data. Read more
Posted on 17 April 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Anterior Temporal Lobe and the Representation of Knowledge About People
Anzellotti frames work by Wang et al.: Patients with semantic dementia (SD), a neurodegenerative disease affecting the anterior temporal lobes (ATL), present... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Lying is a Feature, Not a Bug, of Trump’s Presidency.
PolitiFact rates half of Trump’s disputed public statements to be completely false. Adam Smith points out that Trump is telling… “blue” lies—a psychologist’s... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How Exercise Calms Anxiety.
Another mouse story, as in the previous post, hopefully applicable to us humans. Gretchen Reynolds points to work of Gould and colleagues at Princeton showing... Read more
Posted on 12 April 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Calming Effect of Breathing.
Sheikhbahaei1 and Smith do a Perspective article in Science on the work of Yackle et al. in the same issue. The first bit of their perspective, followed by the... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE