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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New Stuff on Exercise, Brain, and Body.
I'll use this post to point readers to several recent interesting articles on physical activity. Hutchinson does a review of work that distinguishes the effect... Read more
Posted on 04 August 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Brain Correlates of the Impatience of Adolescents.
Teens and young adults show greater impulsivity than children and adults, reflected by increases in emergency room visits, accidents from drug or alcohol use,... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Unlearning Social Biases During Sleep
Feld and Born note that tenacious implicit prejudices of race or gender drive discrimination seen in the rise of nationalistic groups, excessive police... Read more
Posted on 31 July 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Danger of Artificial Intelligence is Artificial Stupidity.
Here are some clips from an interesting Op-Ed piece by Quentin Hardy on artificial intelligence. (And, by the way, a recent issue of Science Magazine has a... Read more
Posted on 30 July 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Placebo Analgesia Reduces Empathy for Pain.
Fascinating observations from Rütgen et al.. They show that experimental modulation of a first-hand emotion experience also modulates empathy for that emotion... Read more
Posted on 29 July 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Brain Markers of Individual Differences in Human Prosociality.
Sul et al. make the fascinating observation that self-regarding and other-regarding regions of the medial prefrontal cortex show greater segregation in selfish... Read more
Posted on 27 July 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Top-down Alpha Band Oscillations Optimize Visual Perception.
Interesting work from Samaha et al.: Significance In contrast to canonical, stimulus-driven models of perception, recent proposals argue that perceptual... Read more
Posted on 24 July 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Universal Features of Human Music.
I have read through a fascinating paper by Savage et al. that makes a convincing case for statistical universals in the structure and function of human music.... Read more
Posted on 23 July 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Screams and the Communication Soundscape
A fascinating piece from Amal noting that human screams occupy a privileged niche in the communication soundscape. Highlights •We provide the first... Read more
Posted on 22 July 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Ohmygawd - a Social App That Aims for Fleeting Authenticity?
I prodded my troglodyte brain to actually read this article about yet another social networking app, Beme, and came away fascinated. Read more
Posted on 21 July 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How Experiencing Nature Influences Our Brains.
Bratman et al., in their PNAS article with the title "Nature experience reduces rumination and subgenual prefrontal cortex activation," suggest an explanation... Read more
Posted on 21 July 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Happy Or Anxious?
I want to point to two interesting recent pieces: Luhrmann notes that the Western, and particularly American, definition of anxiety or depression is very... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Sense8 - Sympathetic Sci-Fi
I started watching the NetFlix original Sci-Fi drama series "Sense8" two weeks ago, and was completely hooked, watching one episode every day until I had... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How Did Kindness Come to Be Our Forbidden Pleasure?
This post is a tertiary product: a review of a review of a book. In this case I want to note Maria Popova’s piece on the book by Adam Phillips and Barbara... Read more
Posted on 19 July 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Four Books from Edge.org's Summer Reading List.
I pass on links to four books that I'm very tempted to buy and read: Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking - Richard E. Nisbett A Beautiful Question: Finding... Read more
Posted on 17 July 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Participants in the Senior Olympics Have Fitness Age 25 Years Younger Than...
I have previously mentioned the fitness age calculator developed by reserarchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Read more
Posted on 17 July 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Cleaning up the Queue - Interesting Ideas.
As I scan the table of contents for various journals, mining for material that might become a MindBlog post, I accumulate a long list of links that I think are... Read more
Posted on 16 July 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Genetic Risk Factors for Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia Predict Creativity.
As a follow up to my June 30 post on creativity and neurosis, I wanted to point to the following account by Power et al. (Numerous epidemiological studies have... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Evolving Ourselves
I pass on a few clips from Xue’s review of “Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Changing Life on Earth” by J. Enriquez and... Read more
Posted on 14 July 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Embodied Cognition of Your Love Life.
MindBlog has done a number of posts on how physical changes in our bodies can influence social cognition (Holding a warm versus an iced cup of coffee makes you... Read more
Posted on 13 July 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE