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 Evolution of Gender Effects on Empathy.
Christov-Moore et al. offer a review making the point that differences in the capacity for empathy between males and females have deep evolutionary and... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Observing Leadership Emergence Through Interpersonal Brain Synchronization.
Interesting work from Jiang et al., who show that show that interpersonal neural synchronization is significantly higher between leaders and followers than... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Glycogen Recovery After Exercise: Junk Food as Good as Sport Supplements
I note this article because one of its authors, Chuck Dumke, now at the University of Montana, worked in my vision research laboratory at the University of... Read more
Posted on 20 April 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Your Friends Know How Long You Will Live.
An interesting study from Jackson et al. analyzing data from an east coast cohort of 600 people observed in the 1930s through 2013: Although self-rated... Read more
Posted on 17 April 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Positive and Negative Emotions - Valence is Not Value
Having done several recent posts on positive emotions, and given the continuing rise of the "Be Happy" industry with its Be Happy Apps, I thought it... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
What Happens in Vagus - Compassion, Positive Emotion, Vagal Tone, and Respirator...
The 10th cranial nerve, the vagus nerve, is distinctive to mammals and supports social engagement and nurturing behaviors as well as feeding, digesting, resting... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Science of Mind Wandering.
I want to pass on this reference to an Ann. Rev. of Psychology article by Smallwood and Schooler, an extensive review and description of mind wandering, its... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Manipulating Moral Decisions by Exploiting Eye Gaze.
Here is a fascinating piece of work from Pärnamets et al.: Eye gaze is a window onto cognitive processing in tasks such as spatial memory, linguistic processing... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The iWatch Will Be Making Us More Sociable and Human??
I enjoy techie stuff (with the recent exception of taking too many hours to figure out wireless network problems that caused my Zeppelin AirPlay speaker to... Read more
Posted on 10 April 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
A Drug for Compassion?
Sáez et al. enhance human egalitarian behavior in humans with tolcapone - a drug approved for use with Parkinson's disease patients - which prolongs the... Read more
Posted on 09 April 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
A Natural Compound for Chilling Out?
As I sit here typing this morning, I'm munching on cocoa nibs, inspired by Friedman's review pointing to the work of Dincheva et al. Read more
Posted on 08 April 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Physical Activity's 'modest' Effects on Cognitive Vitality
Prakash et al., in the Annual Review of Psychology, have reviewed the epidemiological literature on physical activity and exercise and their relationship to... Read more
Posted on 07 April 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Awareness Breaks Down Brain’s Network Modularity.
Godwin et al. provide an analysis showing that awareness emerges from global changes in the brain’s functional connectivity: Neurobiological theories of... Read more
Posted on 03 April 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Origins of Narcissism in Children
An interesting study from Brummelman et al. showing that narcissism in children is predicted by parental overvaluation, not by lack of parental warmth,... Read more
Posted on 02 April 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Cognitive Abilities Across the Lifespan.
Hartshorne and Germine do a massive analysis of changes in cognitive abilities across the life span, showing that digit symbol coding, digit span, vocabulary,... Read more
Posted on 01 April 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Singularity—an Urban Legend?
Clips from an interesting essay by Daniel Dennett: The Singularity—the fateful moment when AI surpasses its creators in intelligence and takes over the... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Quiet
From my long queue of potential MindBlog post items, I pull up Judith Warner’s 2012 review of Susan Cain’s Book “Quiet”, which argues for the power of... Read more
Posted on 30 March 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Altering the Oxytocin Receptor Gene Enhances Perception of Anger and Fear.
Puglia et al. find that the epigenetic modification of methylating the DNA of the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) decreases the control of amygdala fear... Read more
Posted on 27 March 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Information Overload is Filter Failure.
I pass on the following brief lucid piece by Jay Rosen.You might also have a look at Peder Zane's "In the Age of Information, Specializing to Survive. Read more
Posted on 26 March 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Expert Listening to Music Alters Gene transcription...So?
I can't resist comment on a piece generated by PsyBlog, "Classical Music's Surprising Effect on Genes Vital to Memory and Learning." ... Read more
Posted on 25 March 2015 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE