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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The Effects of Birth Order on Personality.
Rohrer et. al. issue a new installment on the perennial question of how our birth order influences us, with a study showing higher intelligence in firstborns, ... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
A Picture Show; And, Alzheimer's and the Innate Immune System
Our nervous and immune systems interact with each other at the same time they both interact with our environment. Cell magazine has put together a picture show... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Choosing to Be Grateful.
In a piece timed for Thanksgiving, Arthur Brooks does a nice job of fetching up and giving links to references to a number of interesting studies on the positiv... Read more
Posted on 25 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Musical Expertise Modulates the Brain’s Entrainment to Music.
Yet another study, by Doelling and Poeppel, showing effects of musical training on the brain and supporting a role for cortical oscillatory activity in music... Read more
Posted on 25 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Our Bodies Can Sabotage Our Healthy Behaviors..
I pass on an interesting chunk from Reynolds' review of work by Mansoubi et al. showing that people who use sit-to-stand workstations in their office... Read more
Posted on 24 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Flip-Flops in Medical Advice.
I want to forward readers some clips I've taken from a review by Zuger of a recent book " Ending Medical Reversal" by Prasad and Cifu. After glancing through th... Read more
Posted on 20 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
A Personal Note, the Steinway B Now in Fort Lauderdale - Some Chopin
After a few tense moments, my Steinway B is now moved from Wisconsin to Florida. I've upgraded my video and audio recording equipment, finally got the bugs... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Neuropolitics - Reading the Electorate's Mind.
Members of our two major political parties increasingly seem to inhabit alternative realities that are utterly incomprehending of each other. How about... Read more
Posted on 18 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Brain with David Eagleman
I want to point MindBlog readers who aren't already aware of the David Eagleman PBS series on the brain to its description on the PBS website. The episodes can... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Good and Bad Stress in the Brain - The Inverted U
I want to pass on a bit of commentary by Robert Sapolsky, in a special issue of Nature Neuroscience that focuses on stress, that presents a clear and lucid... Read more
Posted on 16 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How to Live What We Don't Believe.
Veteran readers of MindBlog will be aware that a continuing issue has been the problem of what to do with our understanding of how our brains really work - the... Read more
Posted on 13 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Amazing…. Robots Learn Coordinated Behavior from Scratch.
Der and Martius suggest that a novel plasticity rule can explain the development of sensorimotor intelligence, without having to postulate higher-level... Read more
Posted on 12 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Unknowns of Cognitive Enhancement
Martha Farah points out how little is known about current methods of cognitive enhancement, and suggests several reasons why we are so ignorant. A few clips fro... Read more
Posted on 10 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Can We Really Change Our Aging?
I thought I would point MindBlog readers to a brief talk I gave, "Can we really change our aging?," at the Nov. 1, 2015 meeting of the Fort Lauderdale Prime... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Critical Period for Visual Pathway Formation? - Another Dogma Bites the Dust.
India, which may have the largest number of blind children in the world, with estimates ranging from 360,000 to nearly 1.2 million, is providing a vast... Read more
Posted on 06 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
A Biomarker for Early Detection of Dementia
Kunz et al. show that in an at-risk group for developing Alzheimer's different brain signals are detected many decades before onset of the disease. Individuals... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Lifting Weights and the Brain.
Reynolds points to a study suggesting that light weight training slows down the shrinkage and tattering of our brain's white matter (nerve tracts) that... Read more
Posted on 04 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Brain Pickings on 'the Most Important Things'
I enjoy the weekly email sent out by Maria Popova's Brain Pickings website. I find it a bit overwhelming (and high on the estrogens), and so sample only a few o... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
A Lab Experiment: Visibility of Wealth Increases Wealth Inequality
Nishi et al. do a fascinating laboratory experiment conducted online showing that when people can see wealth inequality in their social network, this propels... Read more
Posted on 02 November 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
More Exercise Correlates with Younger Body Cells.
Reynolds points to work by Loprinzi et al. showing physicaly active people have longer telomeres at the end of their chromosomes' DNA strands than sedentary... Read more
Posted on 30 October 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE