Deric Bownds

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2628 )

• When Fairness Matters Less Than We Expect.

  A fascinating piece of work from Cooney, Gilbert, and Wilson, from which I pass on the abstract and discussion: Abstract Do those who allocate resources know ho... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Do "Brain-Training" Programs Work? - the Latest Installment of the Debate

  Daniel Simons (Psychology Dept., Univ. of Illinois) has organized a collaboration that has examined essentially all of the relevant published experiments on... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Some Brain Benefits of Exercise Evaporate After a Short Rest.

  Gretchen Reynolds points to a study by kinesiologists at the Univ. of Maryland that probed what happens when very active and fit people stop exercising for... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Way to Change Adult Behaviors - Debiasing Decisions.

  Hambrick and Burgoyne do a piece on the difference between rationality and intelligence. Starting from Kahneman and Tversky's work in the early 1970's, countles... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• MindBlog, Hurricane Matthew, and a Personal Note

  

  I have a few MindBlog posts in a queue to be automatically posted by Blogger, but want to mention that there might be a hiatus in posts caused by the fact that... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Way to Change Adolescent Behaviors?

  Bryan et al. present an interesting strategy for the difficult task of changing adolescent behaviors: Significance Behavioral science has rarely offered... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Avalanche of Distrust

  I keep returning to an Op-Ed piece by David Brooks, with the title of this post, in my queue of articles that are candidates for mention. Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Decoding Spontaneous Emotional States in Our Brains.

  

  Kragel et al. find distinctive patterns of brain activity that correspond to spontaneously experienced emotions in the absence of external emotional stimuli. Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Science in the Age of Selfies

  

  Some clips from an interesting opinion piece by Geman and Geman in the Proceedings of the National Academy: These days, scientists spend much of their time... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• More Great News: Our Brains Are Polluted with Environmental Magnetite.

  From Maher et al.: Summary We identify the abundant presence in the human brain of magnetite nanoparticles that match precisely the high-temperature magnetite... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Recollecting Details Improves Future Performance

  Interesting work from Madore et al. on neural processes though which improving the quality of recalling details of the past enhances thinking about the future:... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Insight into Intergroup Conflict - Defense Trumps Aggression

  A fascinating piece from De Dreu et al. who devise a simple contest game whose results suggest that in inter-groups conflicts in-group defense is more... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Election Stress Disorder

  If not already, and certainly after last night's presidential election debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I suspect you have joined me in sufferin... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Hedonism Hub in the Human Brain.

  A open source article from Zacharopoulos et al., who have found that people who rate hedonism as more important in their life have a larger globus pallidus... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Dreams and Revelations.

  I want to pass on a few clips from an engaging essay by Patrick McNamara, and suggest you read the entire piece. He begins by noting religious movements that... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Treating Trans-generational Stress with Probiotics...

  There is considerable evidence that the effects of stress can be transmitted across multiple generations in rats and also humans. Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Biofeedback to Chill out Your Amygdala’s Hyper-reactivity?

  Tyler McDonald in NewAtlas points to this interesting collaboration of a group of Tel-Aviv university neuroscientists that suggests the possibility that a new... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Defining Brain Areas Involved in Music Perception.

  From Sihvonen et al: Although acquired amusia is a relatively common disorder after stroke, its precise neuroanatomical basis is still unknown. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Predicting False Memories with fMRI

  Chadwick et al. find that the the apex of the ventral processing stream in the brain's temporal pole (TP) contains partially overlapping neural representations... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Self-regulation Via Neural Simulation

  A fascinating study from Gilead et al.: Significance As Harper Lee tells us in To Kill a Mockingbird, “You never really understand a person until you consider... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE