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 ( 2497 )
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Our Eye Movements Are Coupled to Our Heartbeats.
A fascinating finding by Ohl et al. that the darting about of our eyes (saccades) during visual search is coupled to our heart rate (the R-R interval), proving ... Read more
Posted on 15 February 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
What Makes Political Leaders Influential?
Brinke et al. examine whether politicians who ascend to influence have been driven by Aristotelian or Machiavellian values (i.e., virtue versus vice). Is... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Linking Sustained Attention to Brain Connectivity.
Rosenberg et al. find that strengths of a specific set of brain connections - even when estimated from resting state data collected when subjects are not... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Fantasies of the Future
Following up on my Jan. 28 post on Schwab's book "The Fourth Industrial Revolution" I thought I would pass on some speculations in the appendix of the book on... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Our Digital Presence.
Here is an interesting tally: Active users of social media sites compared with the populations of the world's largest countries. if social media sites were... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Consciousness as the Product of Carefully Balanced Chaos.
Tagliafuochi and collaborators have provided more evidence that our experience of consciousness and reality might result from a delicate balance or critical... Read more
Posted on 05 February 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Inequality and Facing the Future.
A recent piece by Arianna Huffington ( The fourth industrial revolution meets the sleep revolution) suggests to me one aspect of yet another driver of future... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Neuroscience of Poverty.
This open source review article by Alla Katsnelson is sobering, and worth a read. The major foci in the brain that appear to show disparities in poor children... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Burden of Obesity Revisited.
A previous mindblog post has noted the obesity paradox, generated by data suggesting that fat people may live longer. Stokes and Preston,however, note an... Read more
Posted on 02 February 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The 8 Second Attention Span.
Wow, Egan notes that our average attention span has fallen to eight seconds, down from 12 in the year 2000. (That makes it gratifying that the average amount... Read more
Posted on 01 February 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Fourth Industrial Revolution?? Maybe Not.....
Just after starting my second slog through Schwab's 'the fourth industrial revolution' noted in yesterday's post, I see Paul Krugman's review of 'The Rise and... Read more
Posted on 29 January 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Predicting the Future: The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Klaus Schwab, the guy who runs the annual Davos Switzerland World Economic Forum of "very important people" in the world, has generated a book with the title... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Ascendant Candidacy of Donald J. Trump
You should check Steven Rattner's interesting commentary asking what we owe to those on the losing end of globalization: Percent change in number of US employee... Read more
Posted on 27 January 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
On Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks.
Metcalfe et al. find that older healthy adults not only are better than young adults at answering general-information questions in the first place, but also,... Read more
Posted on 22 January 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Several Perspectives on the Valuation of Outgroups.
A recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science has two relevant articles: Keelah et al. show that Americans' stereotypes about racial... Read more
Posted on 21 January 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Paying Attention to Your Body Can Increase Resilience to Stress
Resilience is the ability to rapidly return to normal, both physically and emotionally, after a stressful event. Reynolds points to work by Haase et al., who... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Biochemical Individuality Obsoletes Many Dietary Recommendations and the Glycemi...
An important paper by a Weizmann Institute group has been languishing in my list of potential posts, and Murphy's summary of their work now prods me to pass... Read more
Posted on 19 January 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Posthumanism - the Quantification Craze and the Death of Beauty
An eloquent recent essay, " Among the Disrupted" by Leon Wieseltier (pointed to by a Brooks Op-Ed piece), is worth your attention. It opens with a screed on... Read more
Posted on 18 January 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Another Installment on Anti-aging Chemistry - Pterostilbene
I thought I would report on my recent meandering into recent work on the putative anti-aging compounds Resveratrol and Pterostilbene, which are found in some... Read more
Posted on 15 January 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Homosexuality as a Discrete Class.
Norris et al. contribute to previous work engaging the question of whether homosexuality has a taxonic structure of categories of individuals with distinct... Read more
Posted on 15 January 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE