The Curious Engineer

Deric's MindBlog

2006–2007

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December 2007

  1. MindBlog freezes and thaws again
  2. Repressed Memory - A recent cultural invention?
  3. Cognitive Recovery in Socially Deprived Young Children
  4. Motion perception and production - similar neural coding
  5. Monkeys and college students: similar in non-verbal math
  6. Human genetic variation - breakthrough of the year
  7. Learning from errors - genetic differences between humans
  8. Another difference in the brains of musicians...
  9. J. S. Bach - Christmas Oratorio - Schlafe, mein Liebster
  10. Neural correlates of trust
  11. Laws of Nature as resting on faith...
  12. Children attributing causality - extension to religious and political imitation.
  13. The hidden structure of over-imitation
  14. Vegansexuality
  15. Selling brain science... Neurorealism
  16. Race and IQ - a few crisp facts
  17. Video of independent leg movement controllers
  18. The God Effect
  19. A Mea Culpa - Pinker and his critics
  20. Seasonal Affective Disorder - an evolutionary relic?
  21. "Mental reserves" as antidote to Alzheimer's disease
  22. Ambiguity Promotes Liking
  23. Most popular consciousness articles for November
  24. Delayed maturation of the cortex in children with ADHD
  25. A happy ending.....
  26. Good feelings.....
  27. Brief exposure to media violence alters cortical networks regulating reactive aggression.
  28. The spotlight of our attention blinks ~ 7 times per second
  29. Voluntary movements influence what we see
  30. Scientific Imagery
  31. Subliminal Smells Can Guide Social Preferences
  32. Using Neuroimaging to Resolve the Psi Debate
  33. Brain responses that predict athletic performance
  34. The Other-Race Effect -Perceptual Narrowing develops during infancy
  35. Blue light changes our brains
  36. The internet as a return to oral culture
  37. The human mind intuits probability at one year of age.
  38. I will survive...
  39. The anti-aging pill...
  40. Cockroach Art
  41. Emotion as Motion
  42. Theory of Mind Is Independent of Episodic Memory
  43. Evolutionary origins of dance and art...
  44. Experiencing beauty in art - a biological basis?
  45. An antidepressant that extends lifespan.
  46. Morality starts young...

November 2007

  1. Brain changes associated with congenital amusia
  2. Roach Robots
  3. Genetic variation in the enhancement of intelligence by breastfeeding.
  4. Pay me for my content!
  5. How our brains process inequity in rewards.
  6. Monkeys judge inequity like humans
  7. Varieties of denial...
  8. Do you really want to know your own genome?
  9. A gradient of representational hierarchy in the prefrontal cortex.
  10. Memories play back on fast forward during sleep
  11. Kewl Bio-inspired Robotics...
  12. Want to reduce risky behavior? Just pass a tiny current across your forehead.
  13. Most popular consciousness articles...
  14. Predicting election outcomes in 100 milliseconds!
  15. Socialization between toddlers and robots
  16. Observing rat brains as they look to the future
  17. Japanese Gardens
  18. Our optimism bias - brain correlates
  19. Impairment of action chains in autism.
  20. Distinguishing true versus illusory memories with brain imaging.
  21. The moment of recognition...
  22. Drug enhancement of athletic performance - with no drugs!
  23. The instinct to swarm
  24. Exercise on the Brain
  25. A hormone boost to generosity...
  26. Conductors’ Ears and Eyes Stay Equally Alert
  27. This is Your Brain on Politics
  28. Society for Neuroscience meeting: news from the front lines
  29. The brain in glorious color - "Brainbows"
  30. Rationalizing our choices - an early evolutionary origin
  31. MindBlog's winter home...
  32. Susceptibility and Resistance to Social Defeat: Molecular Correlates
  33. Single cells in monkey brain trained to associate numbers with their symbols
  34. Coevolution of Parochial Altruism and War
  35. The Undiscovered Planet
  36. Decision, Decisions
  37. Mozart vs. James Bond
  38. A Ramachandran lecture...
  39. Thinking like a genius
  40. MindBlog on the road
  41. Drug craving? - Just zap your insula!
  42. Music and Dancing
  43. Less SAD with more sun and serotonin
  44. Are we having fun?
  45. Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation
  46. Another window into the minds of chimps and humans
  47. Our Brains on Music, and Musicophilia
  48. The hash realities

October 2007

  1. A Consciousness Debate
  2. A new consiousness and philosophy of mind bibliography
  3. Sleep deprivation diminishes recall of neutral and positive, but not of negative, events.
  4. Biology and Health Inequality
  5. Silent Minds
  6. Evolution - with feeling....
  7. The Outsourced Brain
  8. Different takes on the social brain.
  9. Brain changes after rehabilitation of congenital prosopagnosia
  10. The male chill-out after sex: role for brain oxytocin
  11. It's in the Eyes!
  12. Our visual system is tuned to animals.
  13. Brain location of verbal information storage varies between people
  14. Reverie
  15. Origin of language from cortical motor systems - evidence from fMRI imaging
  16. How potential reward biases our attention
  17. Language Evolution: An invisible hand.
  18. Emotional enhancement of memory and learning - a molecular mechanism.
  19. A Wisconsin fall...
  20. The well-tempered web
  21. Pogue’s Imponderables
  22. Genetic dissociation of multiple dopamine roles in learning
  23. A Memory Toolbox
  24. Parallel Distributed Processing and Semantic Cognition
  25. In an Ultimatum Game, Chimps, but not humans, are rational maximizers
  26. Interactions between Declarative and Procedural Memories
  27. Facts are no match for gossip...
  28. Most popular consciousness papers for September 2007
  29. Motivation alters physical perception
  30. Baboon Metaphysics
  31. The prospective brain
  32. New phases of our lives...
  33. How to get health facts completely wrong....
  34. Your Money and Your Brain
  35. A neural marker of consciousness
  36. Where the brain decides how much we are willing to pay.
  37. What the F***?
  38. Google's evil eye....
  39. Radiohead - the modern troubadours?
  40. See-through frog...
  41. How we see over 10,000-fold changes in light intensity
  42. The wireless epidemic
  43. An acetylcholine receptor agonist improves cognition
  44. Most Viewed MindBlog posts...
  45. Non-materialist neuroscience
  46. Musicians have enhanced subcortical processing
  47. Do you need more hassles?
  48. Some rambling on "Selves" and "Purpose"
  49. Rich and Poor
  50. Playing Action Video Games Reduces Gender Differences in Spatial Cognition
  51. Plasticity and learning in the human mirror neuron system
  52. New research on ageing
  53. Striking Images....
  54. How Meaning Shapes Seeing
  55. Different cognitive processes underlying human mate choices and mate preferences
  56. Cortical evolution and skilled hand use.
  57. Stairways to the Mind
  58. Self-Referential Cognition in Autism
  59. Brain correlates of different spatial learning strategies
  60. Ape language slips reveal category knowledge storage.
  61. Symbiosis of human brains and the web...
  62. Moral Universals
  63. Emotion and Disorders of Emotion

September 2007

  1. Prospection: simulation of future unique to humans
  2. Evolving size of the social brain.
  3. MindBlog's home this morning...
  4. Nonhuman primates perceive human goals
  5. A "language gene" in echolocating bats
  6. Naturopathy wins over physical therapy advice?
  7. Social cognitive skills unique to humans...
  8. The decline of memory
  9. Lucid Dreaming makes the Styles section...
  10. Did Alex really "want" a cracker?
  11. This week's music - Debussy, Minuette from Suite Bergmanesque
  12. Let the kids decide.....
  13. Placebo effect on human opiod pain system
  14. The five "most popular" consciousness papers for August 2007
  15. Mind Over Manual
  16. Walking the Walk
  17. Roles of parietal and prefrontal cortex in working memory
  18. The obsession with inhibiting aging...
  19. Daytime sleep consolidates motor memory
  20. Fly brains/Human brains - similarities in sleep induction
  21. This week's music - Rachmaninoff Trio Elegiaque no. 1
  22. Do you have absolute pitch?
  23. Pavarotti's high C
  24. Sigmund Freud revising his views on religion...
  25. Mind-Set matters: More on contruals and the placebo effect altering physiology and perfomance
  26. Want to avoid snakes?..Heat your tail.
  27. Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism
  28. In memoriam - Alex the Parrot
  29. The Blakeslees on the body's own mind...
  30. This week's music: Beethoven violin/piano sonata no. 3
  31. The smell of an alpha male....
  32. Mistakes were made...Cognitive Dissonance Theory
  33. The evil that men do - The Lucifer Effect
  34. Why Men Matter: Mating Patterns Drive Evolution of Human Lifespan
  35. Chicago Art Institute - Garden Restaurant
  36. More on "The Political Brain"
  37. Discontinuities between Human and Animal Cognition
  38. Evolution of the upturned palm
  39. fMRI feedback for pain reduction
  40. Prokofiev Ballade for Cello and Piano
  41. Calisthenics for the aging mind.
  42. Permanent amygdala changes in people close to 9/11 attack
  43. The topography of fear
  44. Models of consciousness at ASSC

August 2007

  1. A Neural Signature of Self-Control
  2. Nature's revenge - Cicadas crashing the internet
  3. Sexual orientation in women - brain correlates
  4. A mouse model for OCD?
  5. An enzyme that keeps old memories alive
  6. Pruning of nerve connections during development.
  7. Dramatic out of body demonstrations in normal subjects
  8. Steven Fry's secret life of the manic-depressive
  9. More on magic at Las Vegas
  10. The four ages of functional neuroimaging
  11. Really weird...
  12. Changes in brain control circuits during human development
  13. Live Longer - Don't Worry
  14. The Politics of God
  15. Two Books on Brain Plasticity
  16. What I totally do not get....a new book on consciousness
  17. Flipping switches in the brain with light.
  18. Imaging Depression
  19. Male sexual behavior circuits in female brains...
  20. Happiness Tips
  21. Genetic changes that influence memory
  22. Followup on male promiscuity...
  23. Dan Koshland on scientific discovery - his Cha-Cha-Cha theory
  24. Monkeys prefer silence...
  25. Most popular consciousness papers for July 2007
  26. Sugar more rewarding than cocaine...
  27. New descriptions of our inner lives - part two
  28. Neural Antecedents of Financial Decisions (and other choices)
  29. Beethoven Piano/Violin sonata - a rehearsal
  30. Our evolving human nature as primary cause of the industrial age?
  31. The male promiscuity myth
  32. Oscar, the cat of doom
  33. A new compendium on mind and brain
  34. Yet another anti-aging approach?
  35. Flash Earth
  36. Conscious awareness not required for planning and execution of actions
  37. 237 reasons to have sex....
  38. Cooperation: a third basic principle of evolution.
  39. Evolution of spying on others.
  40. Scientific research potential of virtual worlds...
  41. An awakening - recovery from coma by deep brain stimulation
  42. Bonobo apes - human precursors as swingers?
  43. Mind Control
  44. Cognitive scientists learn from magicians...
  45. Brain correlates of peer influence in adolescents
  46. Release from helplessness and stress
  47. Effect of physical activity on cortical plasticity and brain function
  48. Who's Minding the Mind?
  49. Brain damage and moral decision making

July 2007

  1. Origins of social groups in infancy
  2. Interactions between native and second languages in the brain
  3. What drives evolution - natural selection or mutations?
  4. Neural correlates of understanding concrete versus abstract words
  5. The genuine problem of consciousness
  6. Paradoxes Of Our Age
  7. Our baseline brain activity alters conscious perception
  8. Obesity as contagion
  9. fMRI of "Love"
  10. Coordinated eye movements during dialog.
  11. Neuroeconomics - a site to browse
  12. Mild stress during pregnancy increases risk of subsequent brain lesions
  13. dericbownds.net - new website design
  14. Novel environments stimulate memory molecules
  15. Imperceptible cross modal stimuli produce percepts.
  16. Irritating Images
  17. Suppression of emotional memories.
  18. Remembering small pattern differences.
  19. Can Systems Biology integrate Chinese and Western Meidicine?
  20. Attentional expertise in long-term meditators: neural correlates
  21. Internet connectivity model
  22. Thoughts on, reservations about, science blogging...
  23. Whole brain structural networks - some neat movies
  24. A musical interlude...
  25. Genetics and tonal languages
  26. Most popular consciousness papers for June 2007
  27. Modulating emotional appraisal by false physiological feedback.
  28. Williams Syndrome - evidence for a discrete social brain
  29. A Sunday Walk....
  30. How pain preempts cognition - and about itching
  31. Negative suggestions enhancing pain -an antidote?
  32. Rodent Altruism - Lending an Anonymous Paw
  33. Altruistic Chimps and Children
  34. Neuroimaging of emotions driving political strategy...
  35. Hi-Tech fMRI lie detection - another scam?
  36. When watching a tactile stroke is the same as receiving one.
  37. Making up our Minds...
  38. Tone deafness is associated with deficits in spatial processing
  39. Some music to start the week...
  40. Ambiguity and anxiety: overreaction and a serotonin receptor
  41. Threads of our lives in dreams...
  42. Where the brain understands animate agents..
  43. Yawn to cool your brain?
  44. Is Darwin due for an upgrade?
  45. A social/musical at Twin Valley
  46. Science of the Soul
  47. Face perception by distributed cortical networks.

June 2007

  1. A Schubert Scherzo
  2. Role of the amygdala in visual awareness.
  3. Perception Without a Perceiver
  4. The Science of Gaydar
  5. Language without recursion...
  6. Esthetic experience and mirror neurons - motion, emotion and empathy
  7. Greetings from Las Vegas and the ASSC meeting
  8. The most popular posts on MindBlog
  9. New steps in memory consolidation
  10. Horniness of male mice - up and down with estrogen
  11. Debunking Phrenology - oscillating networks control behavior
  12. Deric off to Magic and Consciousness in Las Vegas - ASSC meeting
  13. Most popular consciousness papers for May
  14. Brain responses revealing motives for charitable donations.
  15. A consciousness researcher database.
  16. Is there wisdom in disgust? - moral psychology
  17. Genuine vs. Fake smiles, can you tell the difference?
  18. Human infant pointing, precursor to language?
  19. Music in Reuben's tube
  20. The ‘when’ pathway of the right parietal lobe
  21. Our brains putting the brakes on... "free won't" versus "free will"
  22. Laughing rats...
  23. Brain activation that reflects perceptual choices.
  24. Searching MindBlog - keywords (labels) and search function now added
  25. Musical intervals in speech
  26. Cat meets Laptop
  27. When Lots of Money Makes You Feel Rich
  28. New cells in the brain require new experiences to live...
  29. Gay animals II - from National Geographic
  30. Gay animals I
  31. More on the mirror "hearing-doing" system
  32. Shrimp on a treadmill....
  33. Who watches the watcher?
  34. The Accidental Mind
  35. Our prefrontal control system is altered by unconscious stimuli.
  36. Octopus tricks....
  37. Use Viagra to recover from jet lag?
  38. Possible RSS feed errors
  39. Synesthesia - evidence for increased cortical connectivity
  40. EVOLUSHARK
  41. Memory depends on how well you can forget...
  42. Learning after movement error, a memory trace.
  43. How the body shapes intelligence
  44. Dumb Blondes and Athletes, smart brains...
  45. Cosmic Ignorance
  46. Infants distinguish languages by just looking at a talking face
  47. Threatening the rubber hand illusion..cortical anxiety
  48. Dog Brain
  49. Brain activity that predicts choice of rewards...
  50. A bird brain with street smarts
  51. Calorie restriction and life span extension
  52. Evolution of human and animal personalities
  53. Apologies to rss, atom feeds for seeing old posts...other details
  54. PLEASE NOTE! MindBlog/RSS web URL change
  55. Children have symbolic arithmetic before formal instruction
  56. Some Edward Grieg..
  57. Feature Creep...

May 2007

  1. Anheuser-Busch would never do this
  2. Why don’t we do what we know works better?
  3. Guide to psychology blogs...
  4. 3rd and 1st person narrative in personality change
  5. "The Secret" scam....
  6. Neural correlates of social cognition
  7. Why Americans resist scientific ideas.
  8. Adding labels or keywords to MindBlog for indexing... some glitches
  9. The New Synthesis in Moral Psychology
  10. Embodying emotion
  11. A Wedding in Mexico
  12. A neural link between hand muscle excitability and numerical counting
  13. Gene crucial to learning and memory unique in humans
  14. Boundaries of Experience and Self
  15. Spring at Twin Valley
  16. View from my window - Isla Mujeres
  17. Schermer on happiness - science and history
  18. Visual Illusions
  19. Deric, a vacation, and thinking about MindBlog-opps!
  20. Genetic basis for vulnerability to drug addiction.
  21. Fantastic Dances...
  22. Brain imaging that reflects moral responsibility.
  23. Potential drug for chronic pain?
  24. A magnet for your sleep?
  25. Videos on How the Mind Works.
  26. High speeding mapping of neural circuits with optical techniques.
  27. A parietal EEG signal reflects social coordination
  28. A Fantasia
  29. Neuroimaging of Subliminal Motivation
  30. Cortical networks while the brain is at rest...
  31. Do computer games keep you young?
  32. A pill to boost or restore memory?
  33. Drink milk and live longer?
  34. Coding gains and losses in the striatum...
  35. Integrating different theory of mind models.
  36. Emotion and Consciousness
  37. Brain abnormalities and responsibility
  38. Religion good for society? It depends....
  39. Meditation can alter attentional resource allocation
  40. Personal space in virtual reality
  41. Discover Magazine on Mind and Brain
  42. Wisdom and the Amygdala...
  43. This week's piano - Suite Bergmanesque
  44. One Clever Raven
  45. Brain Lessons
  46. Bush's Mistake and Kennedy's Error
  47. Ginkgo Biloba? Forget About It.
  48. Gesture in language evolution - data from Chimps
  49. Train Your Brain
  50. The Way We Age Now
  51. Spirit Tech
  52. Human evolution and migration
  53. God Is in the Dendrites
  54. An interesting effect of Cochlear Implants - better than normal audiovisual integration

April 2007

  1. The Myth of Mirror Neurons?
  2. This week's recording - Arabesque
  3. Top-Down/Bottom-Up in Attention Control
  4. Does Darwinism have to be depressing?
  5. Which way are you wagging your tail?
  6. Crisis in connectivity
  7. Is recursion a universal aspect of languages?
  8. What Determines Winners?
  9. Protocol based architectures.
  10. Evolution and Brain science shaping public discourse
  11. Neuron competition during memory formation.
  12. Twin Valley Music - Debussy Reverie version II
  13. The social power of groups regulates their variability
  14. Nyotaimori - the latest in thing for "Foodies"
  15. Representation of social concepts in superior anterior temporal cortex
  16. A bizarre story - the parasite that lets cats eat rats
  17. Egalitarian motives in humans
  18. Bipolar disorder - related to a disorder in the Clock gene?
  19. Enhanced Visuospatial Cognition in Musicians
  20. The Primate Lineage
  21. Amygdala damage impairs eye contact
  22. Sexual Desire
  23. Gregariousness of early-adolescent mice influenced by genetic background
  24. Just a nap will do it.....
  25. Pain Mechanisms
  26. Framing Science
  27. Relationships in an e-society: small versus large groups
  28. How pretty faces sell boring products - conditioning our brain's reward system
  29. MindBlog back in Madison, Wisconsin
  30. "Nest" cells in the mouse brain. Category knowledge shown.
  31. Why the rich behave badly... "disinhibition"
  32. Rapid memory consolidation shown...
  33. Do animals experience past and future?
  34. Body Ritual among the Nacirema
  35. Savant Autism - part 1
  36. Savant Autism - part 2
  37. MindBlog leaves 'paradise'
  38. Motor cortex for the hand and numerical counting
  39. Creation Science
  40. Most popular consciousness papers for March
  41. Self and social cognition in the brain
  42. Emotion and consciousness - a Review
  43. Rhythms linking episodic and procedural memory systems.
  44. Exercise increases nerve cell growth in brain area crucial to cognitive aging.
  45. Mirror Neurons - gee whiz popular video
  46. Social exclusion causes an empathy block.
  47. Neurite Outgrowth
  48. The Male-Warrior Hypothesis

March 2007

  1. Looking for hidden signs of consciousness
  2. Fractal Animation
  3. A primer on, and reservations about, TMS - transcranial magnetic stimulation
  4. Your Brain on Music
  5. Interlude: some Franz Liszt
  6. The Inner Life of a Cell - another audio-visual interlude
  7. Correlation of conscious perception with synchronization of neural activity across cortical areas.
  8. The structure of consciousness
  9. Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements
  10. Innateness and culture in language evolution - a bit of heresy.
  11. Brain imaging can infer your hidden intentions....
  12. 'Thinking about thinking' shown in Rats...
  13. Why antipsychotics lose their effectiveness...
  14. Karate Chimp
  15. Spearing Chimp
  16. Exploiting the moral impulse
  17. Brain movies...
  18. New brain cell synthesis supports new memories? It isn't that simple.
  19. Reduce social recognition in mice by reducing amygdala oxytocin receptors.
  20. Take a whiff of Oxytocin and become a better mind-reader!
  21. Reduce anxiety behavior by making more of a forebrain glucocorticoid receptor.
  22. Motion aftereffect demonstration
  23. Primate beginnings of morality
  24. More on "gay" male fruit flies...
  25. Heroes and Happiness
  26. Most laughing has little to do with humor...
  27. Temporal Lobe Seizures and God
  28. Getting brain wiring correct during development...
  29. How Lotto makes sense...
  30. The End Of The 'Natural'
  31. Origins of Religious Violence
  32. And, speaking of musicians...
  33. The brains of musicians are different...
  34. Brain response to threat - reduced by holding hands
  35. Conscious Reasoning and Intuition in Moral Judgment
  36. NeuroLaw
  37. Making Us/Them Dichotomies More Benign.
  38. Brain cells and arrangements unique to human cerebral cortex
  39. Alter a gene - make more fearless mice
  40. Odor cues during sleep stimulate memory.
  41. Robot Dreams
  42. Ultimately, monopolies fail...
  43. Losing a night's sleep makes you less able to form new memories.
  44. Sad News....
  45. Why stronger sniffing catches weak odors...
  46. Why do we believe - Darwin’s God
  47. A membrane protein controlling social memory and maternal care in mice.
  48. Getting past "mind bugs"
  49. Some bird friends
  50. Why are primate brains smarter than rodent brains of the same size?
  51. Understanding the brain - an inductive leap?
  52. Fascinating Rhythm
  53. Jaron Lanier on transforming communication...
  54. Would you like to be an experimental subject?
  55. Why I am in Fort Lauderdale...
  56. From my porch...
  57. Attentional deficit overcome by fearful body language stimulus
  58. A neuroethics website
  59. Virtual Living - Is this scary, or what???

February 2007

  1. Brain-o-vision - Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?
  2. Breakdown can be a positive development.
  3. A new description of our inner lives....
  4. Neuroscience will change society
  5. Planning for the future is not uniquely human, Scrub Jays do it!
  6. Future discoveries: illusions of order versus stochastic science.
  7. Social Networks - the twenty-first century science?
  8. Steven Kosslyn on increasing human intelligence:
  9. Most popular consciousness articles for January
  10. Are ideas like food and sex?
  11. Collective minds - Higher order computation?
  12. Human Nature Redux
  13. Blogalogues (and mud wrestling) on religion...
  14. Blocking the death of retinal cells after retina detachment
  15. A clash of two cultures - biology and physics
  16. Warmth and competence
  17. Distinct brain codings of reward value and risk attitude.
  18. Malthus was wrong...
  19. The end of ISMs
  20. Smell of male sweat raises cortisol levels in women.
  21. Distortions of world view
  22. Evaporation of the Mystique of Religion
  23. A brain correlate of subjective well-being.
  24. The Insula is having its ten minutes of fame...
  25. What kinds of things have minds?
  26. What are you optimistic about? Why?
  27. MindBlog's 1st Anniversary - Dangerous Ideas
  28. Objective measurement of awareness.
  29. Innate motion perception in 4-day old human babies
  30. Watching a computer "be nice" activates our brain's agency and goal detectors
  31. Fish brains can perform transitive analysis
  32. Switch brain sexuality with steroid hormones!
  33. Body Hot Spots
  34. Paradise-engineering
  35. More on faces....
  36. Expressing learned, but not innate, fear requires the prefrontal cortex.
  37. Neural Basis of Loss Aversion

January 2007

  1. Exchange on religion between Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan
  2. Knowing without doing
  3. The pianist in the mirror - human mirror neuron systems for motor learning
  4. Claude debussy reverie number of
  5. The insula and addiction to smoking.
  6. Biology's next revolution
  7. Quote for the day...George Bush and Reality
  8. You've made up your mind before you know it...
  9. The perils of studying gay sheep
  10. Neural basis of the Wandering Mind?
  11. How the brain rewires itself.
  12. Early Experience Determines How the Senses Will Interact
  13. Magical Thinking
  14. Amnesia for the Future
  15. Neural Cascade of Attentional Control
  16. Shopping Centers in the Brain
  17. OK, Materialists, Naturalists, and Humanists, where's the beef?
  18. More on the Free Will debate......
  19. Happiness and human evolution...
  20. The evolution of cooperation: why the whites of our eyes are large.
  21. More brain enhancement websites
  22. Most popular consciousness articles...
  23. Varieties of Delusion - I'll take the Flying Spagetti Monster
  24. Doonesbury on science - teaching the "controversy"
  25. Envisioning the future: underlying brain activities
  26. An E.Coli toxin can stimulate learning and memory
  27. Two parallel (and sometimes conflicting) brain systems for evaluating others.
  28. Attention and consciousness are not the same thing.
  29. A key to life satisfaction? Lower your expectations.
  30. Become an Evo Warrior
  31. Movement errors can rise in the brain before the movement starts.
  32. Constructive memory a tool for anticipating futures.
  33. Watching the brain make up its mind about an ambiguous stimulus.
  34. Brain correlates of "flashbulb memory" of 9/11
  35. Being happy broadens your scope of attention.
  36. Alcohol and Arthritis
  37. An Autistic Savant - The Living Camera
  38. The Free Will debate...
  39. The distinction between sincerity and authenticity
  40. Explaining away the supernatural as brain misfirings?
  41. "Web 2.0"...both feel-good and wicked

2006 239

December 2006

  1. Challenging the link between the human microcephalin gene, evolution, and cognition.
  2. Actions speak louder than brain images.
  3. Brain self repair
  4. A bull market in Brain Fitness and Calisthenics
  5. Synchronies to bind our brains... check out the movie
  6. A review of MindBlog
  7. Thought without language - metacognition in Animals
  8. In defense of order....
  9. Disorder as the detritus of a creative mind...
  10. The giving season: food and money -an evolutionary link?
  11. During sleep: a brain memory dialogue
  12. Mind Wars
  13. Abolishing pain with a single sodium channel mutation
  14. When the "why?" isn't crucial...
  15. An auditory-motor 'mirror" system is engaged by positive emotions.
  16. Sleep deprivation slows the generation of new nerve cells
  17. The Meerkat wars and synchronicity
  18. The decline of civility and etiquette on the web.
  19. A "mind reading" prosthesis for autistic people?
  20. Sporno 15
  21. Psychological Neoteny
  22. Being hungry makes you smarter
  23. The Eyes of Honesty
  24. Homophily on the web - serendipity as antidote?
  25. Digital Maoism
  26. Brain imaging of intuition during perceptual discovery
  27. The Buddha and viscoelastic foam
  28. Guide to brain health
  29. Plagarism - how long does a phrase have to be?
  30. Brain correlates of visual consciousness
  31. How the aging brain compensates to preserve language functions
  32. Terror Management and Religious Belief
  33. How to define happiness....?
  34. Just thinking about money changes you.

November 2006

  1. Predictive Codes for Forthcoming Perception in the Frontal Cortex
  2. For Some People, Intimacy Is Toxic.... The Virtues of Solitude
  3. The latest on Resveratrol enhancing health and longevity
  4. How we make our visual world appear to be constant.
  5. Making pain worse - basis of the Nocebo effect
  6. The Case Against Faith .. and what's the alternative
  7. An inherited primate baseline for spatial cognition.
  8. Enhancing Cognition after Stress with Gene Therapy
  9. Memory enhancement during your sleep...just wear an electric head strap?
  10. Is there a biology of intelligence?
  11. Gender and sexual orientation regulate the effect of invisible images.
  12. Mind over Matter: how depression causes bone loss through nerve activation.
  13. Imaging the brain during "speaking in tongues"
  14. Putting humans and their climate in perspective
  15. Deric and MindBlog are moving south for the winter...
  16. The Brain Making Choices: The Lesser of Two Evils or the Better of Two Goods....
  17. The psychology of framing in this election - are we deciding whom to accept or whom to reject?
  18. The evolution of morals - a nudge of clarity
  19. Where your brain sizes up your competition...
  20. No effect of DHEA or Testosterone in Elderly
  21. Are we born with a moral grammar?
  22. Tony Auth and Tom Tooles on the resveratrol story
  23. Self recognition - humans, apes, dolphins...and now elephants
  24. Followup: take resveratrol and continue to pig out...
  25. How emotions modulate memory through the amygdala

October 2006

  1. Eat less, live longer, now shown for monkeys as well as mice and worms
  2. Relationship between genetic variations in serotonin transporter, brain activity, and depression.
  3. How Google can nudge the keywords of political debate
  4. Hereditary family signature of facial expression
  5. Mirroring Minds (A talk I gave at Univ. Wisc. on 10/24)
  6. The God Delusion
  7. "Special K" not just a party drug
  8. Plasticity of gender difference in math performance
  9. Imaging the brain during the motivated reasoning of political bias
  10. Human fronto–mesolimbic networks guide decisions about charitable donation
  11. Early exposure to novelty enhances social, cognitive, and neuroendocrine development
  12. Your Brain on Humor...an fMRI study
  13. A genetic change in brain growth factor alters anxiety behavior in mice (and humans?)
  14. A neural network that shares a common genetic origin with human intelligence.
  15. An Elephant "Speaks"......
  16. Biology of emotional linkages and merging of physiologies
  17. A striking difference in brain function in autism: Failure to deactivate.
  18. The power of positive (and negative) thinking about aging
  19. Clever experiment: distinction of self and other in mirroring motor neurons.
  20. Language, embodiment, and the cognitive niche
  21. Distinct roles of anterior cingulate and prefrontal cortex in the acquisition and performance of a cognitive skill
  22. Your brain can put your body wherever it likes....
  23. Does absolute brain size matter?

September 2006

  1. Recollection, familiarity, and novelty in different areas of medial temporal lobes.
  2. Sex and Death in Suicide Attackers
  3. Brain correlates of hysteria.
  4. Analogs of human language areas in monkey brains...
  5. Booze inhibits serotonin re-uptake, but not like Prozac does....
  6. Why Christians and Conservatives should accept evolution.
  7. The Macbeth Effect: washing away your sins.
  8. Brain Stressed Out? Try this machine.......
  9. A treatment for acquired anxiety disorders in humans?
  10. Innate Imitation of Facial Expressions by Newborn Monkeys
  11. The Mind Games of Neuroeconomics
  12. Culture Shapes Arithmetic in the Brain
  13. MRI Detection of Brain Awareness in the Vegetative State
  14. Fatherhood changes the prefrontal cortex.
  15. God on the Brain
  16. The central role of "construals" in determining performance... the power of brief interventions
  17. Seligman's Happiness Regimen...
  18. The Expert Mind
  19. Neural operations that give rise to a unitary sense of self.
  20. Avoiding Punishment is its Own Reward...
  21. Making faces in the brain
  22. Evidence for stroke-induced neurogenesis in the human brain

August 2006

  1. Start your own religion....
  2. More on the impulsive teenage brain
  3. A warning...prenatal ultrasound waves disrupt embryonic brain cell migration in mice.
  4. Are you beautiful??
  5. Modulation of competing memory systems by distraction
  6. The Buddha's Biology
  7. An RNA gene expressed during cortical development evolved rapidly in humans
  8. No more new neurons for you: Stable neuron numbers from cradle to grave
  9. Twin Valley Classical Piano Music
  10. Infant brains detect arithmetic errors
  11. B. Alan Wallace's First Revolution in the Mind Sciences: Where's the beef?
  12. What your facial muscles are revealing - facial profiling
  13. The Neural Basis of Embodyment
  14. This is scary....Americans at bottom of list in belief in evolution.
  15. Remembrance of mild moments past: add a little arousal
  16. The Universe in a Neuron, and vice versa
  17. Complex Choices Better Made Unconsciously? A critical exchange...
  18. "Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind" and "The Wayward Mind"
  19. Do pheromone receptors in our nose pick up subliminal signals?
  20. Another volume on flaws of the intelligent design argument, political setbacks to its advocates.
  21. An animal model for abusive attachment.
  22. How emotions nudge rationality - brain correlates of "framing"
  23. Cortical Plasticity and Recovery from Brain Injury
  24. My Evil Twin Posted This
  25. Social Class and Values - an inversion?
  26. The Gender Wars Continuing - retort from Pinker
  27. Personality Predicts Responsivity of the Brain Reward System
  28. How do we persist when our molecules do not?
  29. Whale Song and Wavelets.... and some piano

July 2006

  1. Living longer and better.....
  2. Cracking the Language Code...
  3. Face Blindness - hereditary prosopagnosia
  4. Nice and Nasty Rats.... Religion and Science
  5. Remembering past rewards - anterior cingulate cortex needed
  6. The Middle East - contribution of basic cognitive errors to cycles of retribution.
  7. A ‘Senior Moment’ or a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
  8. Chimp playing pacman this video is
  9. The Locus Ceruleus Is Involved in the Retrieval of Emotional Memories in Humans
  10. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, how Ritalin might be working.
  11. Free Will, Free Won't, or Neither? A refinement of Libet's work on the conscious control of spontaneous actions.
  12. The Dali Lama and evolutionary science. He’s an awesome guy, but……
  13. Genes, cognition, and dyslexia.
  14. Future and previous goals represented by different neuronal population the prefrontal cortex.
  15. Stoking the Voters' Passions
  16. Fraternal birth-order effect on male sexual orientation.
  17. Brain-machine interfaces
  18. The Deepest Cut - removing one cerebral hemisphere
  19. Mice feel each others' pain.
  20. Lapses in Attention.....
  21. Lie Detection by MRI spooks ethicists
  22. Social Animals Prove their Smarts
  23. Brain basis of risk-taking behavior in adolescents.
  24. Trust in Fish
  25. The Mellow Years?: Neural Basis of Improving Emotional Stability over Age
  26. The mysteries of blog-land, Feedburner and Linkie Winkie
  27. Oxytocin, Affiliative Neuroscience, make the NYTimes Op-Ed page!
  28. Genes that regulate risk taking, addiction, obesity, sexual desire and orientation....
  29. Several Websites for Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Information.

June 2006

  1. Cognitive Biases
  2. Prospection
  3. Subjectivity
  4. Realism
  5. Presentism
  6. Rationalization
  7. Corrigibility
  8. In another culture, the future is behind you.
  9. Our perception of gender from biological movement: It's adaptation suggests brain neurons selective for this task.
  10. Angry Faces. Men detect them better than women do.
  11. Neuromarketing: a growing menace?
  12. Decreasing chronic pain by learning how to decrease activity in the brain areas regulating it.
  13. Changes in genes and fearful behavior caused by early life stress can be reversed.
  14. Your Amazing Brain
  15. Emotional Communication in Humans and other Primates.
  16. Our psychological immune system
  17. The brain during normal awareness, absence Seizures, and the vegetative state
  18. Left Brain and Right Brain in the regulation of our subjective feelings.
  19. We need our orbitofrontal cortex to make intelligent choices. Its individual cells code for value.
  20. Apes plan ahead for the future! - yet another 'unique human trait' bites the dust.
  21. Human pheromone (sexual attractant) candidates act differently on areas of the hypothalamus regulating sexual behavior in gay men and lesbian women.
  22. The Attention Revolution

May 2006

  1. Autistic children insensitive to emotional expressions in others also show decreased activity in their brain's 'mirror neuron' system.
  2. Why don't we choose what makes us happy?
  3. Cooperation, Punishment, and the Evolution of Human Institutions
  4. Stressing out or Chilling out changes how our genes are expressed in an immediate and dynamic way.
  5. The brain finds pleasure in novelty.......
  6. Religion as a Natural Phenomenon - More on Dennett's Book "Breaking the Spell"
  7. The pleasures and pains of information about the future.
  8. Two ways of knowing the minds of others
  9. The good, the bad and the amygdala
  10. Dolphins have discovered "names" of the sort we use.
  11. Men and Women react differently to sniffing a social hormone - aggressively versus friendly
  12. Recursion in vocalization not unique to humans
  13. Stumbling on Happiness

April 2006

  1. A new brain module for understanding whole words
  2. The Paomnnehal Pweor Of The Hmuan Mnid
  3. Inhibiting Negative Emotions - Opps!, A simple story evaporates
  4. Brain's Reward Pathway Involved in Mood Disorders
  5. The Self-Help Scam
  6. Our inability to cope with what empirical data show us to be true about how our minds work...
  7. Why do I feel an urge to write about how the mind works?
  8. Intellectual Ability and Brain Cortex Development in Children
  9. Power of Prayer? - apparently not.....

March 2006

  1. Seeing as a way of acting.
  2. How to spot a baby conservative
  3. Important models of self and sensing, and their reviewers
  4. How genes make up your mind
  5. What is happening in your brain during a sensory illusion?
  6. What We Know May Not Change Us
  7. Different Brain Systems Regulating Response to Risk and Uncertainty
  8. Can physics save your soul?
  9. An "Apostle's Creed" for the humanistic scientific materialist?
  10. Recent Evolution of Humans
  11. Evolutionary Spirituality - Evolutionary Christianity
  12. Visual Illusions
  13. Dangerous Ideas......
  14. Pursuing Happiness
  15. Our Wayward Minds
  16. No Two Alike - Why do even identical twins have different personalities?
  17. The Folk Psychology of Souls
  18. Altruistic and cooperative behavior not unique to humans.
  19. More on how meditation may increase the thickness of some cortical areas

February 2006

  1. What makes young kids different from young chimps?
  2. Delete one gene, and turn from timid to daring, if you are a mouse
  3. Complex decisions solved better by unconsious than by conscious thought
  4. Trashing the God Genome
  5. Mindful awareness and my frontal lobes?
  6. So what use is knowing all this brain stuff??
  7. Watching emotions interfere with goal attainment
  8. Detecting lying, and critical comments on the brain imaging enterprise
  9. Imaging the person in the brain....
  10. The Trust and Caring Hormones
  11. Language influences perception in left, but not right, hemisphere
  12. Replace religions with contemplative science?
  13. Mirror or Empathy Neurons, the DNA of psychology?
  14. Dangerous Ideas.......

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