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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Brain Markers of Psychopathy.
Philippi et al. analyze 142 adult male prison inmates, and offer a detailed analysis showing that psychopathy can be correlated with altered connectivity in... Read more
Posted on 16 June 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Sign Language as a Window on Universals in Linguistic Representation of Events.
From Strickland et al., I've learned a new word - telicity: According to a theoretical tradition dating back to Aristotle, verbs can be classified into two broa... Read more
Posted on 15 June 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Oxytocin Makes Formidable Men More Likeable.
An interesting tidbit from Chen et al.: Physical size and strength are associated with dominance and threat. The current study tested (i) whether men’s... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Serotonin Deficiency Correlates with Stress Vulnerability.
From Sachs et al., a statement of significance, followed by a more detailed abstract: Significance The biological factors that determine whether an individual... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Urge to Instruct.
I thought I would pass on this humorous piece by Peter Funt on his review of YouTube videos on how to break in a new baseball glove. Read more
Posted on 10 June 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The "Good Life"
The previous post noting recent work by Dacher Keltner and collaborators prompted me to have another look at the website of "The Greater Good Science Center"... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Why Do We Experience Awe?
Awe, like reverence, is a pro-social emotion that subordinates individual self interest to a larger whole. Dacher Keltner and Paul Piff, in their NYTimes piece... Read more
Posted on 08 June 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Lack of Exercise Disrupts Body’s Rhythms.
Natural daily rhythms in spontaneous movement patterns in both humans and mice show scale invariance, i.e., movement patterns repeat over time scales of... Read more
Posted on 05 June 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
It’s Not a Stream of Consciousness, Its a Rhythm.
In the NYTimes Gray Matter series Gregory Hickok gives an exegesis on the implications of his Psychological Science paper "The Rhythm of Perception. Read more
Posted on 04 June 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Humans Need Not Apply.
Check out this chilling video on the increasing obsolescence of humans, which was referenced in a recent meeting of the Chaos and Complexity Seminar group I... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How We Fashion Meaning and Purpose.
This is a brief post about some material I thought I might get to cohere, maybe something along the lines of purpose as an evolved means of generating order,... Read more
Posted on 02 June 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Sleep Stabilizes, but Does Not Enhance, Motor Performance Training.
From Nettersheim et al., a result challenging the prominent model that sleep enhances the performance of a newly learned skill (which is my experience in... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Cultural Differences, Emotional Expressivity, and Smiles
Rychlowska et al. analyze cultural display rules from 32 countries to reveal that the extent to which a country’s present-day population descends from numerous... Read more
Posted on 29 May 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How Biased Are Our Brains?
Kristof reviews some recent work on unconscious bias, particularly racial bias. Scholars suggest that in evolutionary times we became hard-wired to make... Read more
Posted on 28 May 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
After Phrenology: Neural Reuse and the Interactive Brain
I've been reading through an interesting article by Michael Anderson, a précis of a book accepted for publication and available as a PDF through BBS. Read more
Posted on 27 May 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Neural Basis of Anxiety Reduction by Placebo.
Meyer et al. directly measure neural consequences of expecting a placebo treatment to be effective in relieving anxiety: The beneficial effects of placebo... Read more
Posted on 26 May 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How Alarm Amplifies Through Social Networks.
We've all probably played the parlor game with 10 or more people sitting in a circle, with one whispering a word into the ear of the person to their right,... Read more
Posted on 25 May 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Modulating Movement Intention and the Extended Present with tDCS.
Douglas et al. do a fascinating bit of work on the 'extended present' in which our brains function, during which our experienced intention to make a movement... Read more
Posted on 22 May 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Brain Correlates of Loving Kindness Meditation.
Garrison and collaborators extend their work on brain correlates of meditation practice, noting again a central role for the posterior cingulate cortex/precuneu... Read more
Posted on 21 May 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Essentialism
I pass on some clips from Richard Dawkins' brief essay, and suggest you also take a look at Lisa Barrett's comments on essentialist views of the mind:... Read more
Posted on 20 May 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE