The Curious Engineer

Deric's MindBlog

2008–2009

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December 2009

  1. Inhibited behavior and our right frontal cortex.
  2. The power of music
  3. Changes in our brain connectivities as a funcion of age and sex
  4. Subtle transmission of race bias by televised nonverbal behavior
  5. Culture modulate eye movement responses to visual novelty
  6. Indirect reward and punishment - their payoff
  7. Describing our inner experience...
  8. Diminutive digits discern delicate details.
  9. From the Bach Collegium Munchen....
  10. How our brains keep multiple things in mind.
  11. One more light show...
  12. The "protocol society"
  13. For the season...
  14. 'Tis the season to be generous'...but watch the testosterone
  15. More on the psychology of Liberals and Conservatives
  16. Clever octopus, using tools.
  17. The origins of tidyness.
  18. Editor's choice at the Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science
  19. How to lie more skillfully
  20. Neuromarketing nonsense
  21. Transiently blocking our concern for our good reputation
  22. Eldest children are less cooperative, trusting, and reciprocating
  23. Spoken language and symbolic gestures processed by same brain areas
  24. When seeing outweighs feeling.
  25. A biological rationale for musical scales
  26. Rapid amygdala activation by fearful objects in our peripheral vision
  27. Sequence of presentation influences our choice between alternatives.
  28. Experiencing our causality warps our sense of time.
  29. The year in ideas
  30. Modulation of our pain by emotions - cerebral and spinal sites
  31. Why exercise makes you less anxious.
  32. Stop me if I've told you this before......
  33. Why mindblog spends in the winter in Ft. Lauderdale...
  34. Political partisanship and perception of skin color tone
  35. Social isolation and inflammatory gene expression
  36. Men do everything they do to get laid?
  37. My symbiosis with Google.
  38. The "Name-Ease" effect...
  39. Primitive syntax in a monkey language?
  40. Our cooperative behavior is innate.
  41. Pre-natal androgens and risk taking...
  42. How fear versus disgust regulate our attention.
  43. A dopamine receptor gene and emotional control
  44. Psyche is back.
  45. Ongoing Victim Suffering Increases Prejudice
  46. Universality in distinguishing natural from artificial, and in color naming.
  47. Obama, Afganistan, and the emotional brain
  48. Watch the live dissection of a famous brain.
  49. Hearing with both your skin and your ears
  50. Buttress self esteem - reduce aggression
  51. How's Your Gaydar?
  52. Dietary specialization: man-eating lions
  53. Facial plus vocal emotion - watching the brain's enhanced response
  54. Dieting, compulsive eating, and brain stress.
  55. Neural architecture of music-evoked autobiographical memories
  56. Neural correlates of detecting wrong notes in advance.

November 2009

  1. Nutrition, brain aging, and neurodegeneration
  2. The fMRI of understanding others' regret.
  3. The religious wars
  4. Openness versus conservatism - its cultural evolution
  5. Deconstructing the Placebo
  6. Watching our brains judge gain versus pain
  7. Curing musicians' dystonia.
  8. More on the trust and empathy hormone...
  9. Origins of empathetic yawning?
  10. Sounds during sleep aid memory
  11. The Music Instinct
  12. Musicians are not as bothered by background noise.
  13. Imagination and bad governance
  14. Neural predictors of attitude changes.
  15. Why sex matters - more on brain differences between men and women
  16. The weirdest people in the world?
  17. Cyclic variations in our vigilance
  18. Low fat makes you happier?
  19. The sooner you can sleep, the better you learn.
  20. Neurogenetics of remembering emotions past
  21. Evolution of "the God gene"
  22. Cognitive science and the origin of religions
  23. When the boss feels inadequate - power, incompetence, and aggression
  24. Pig smarts
  25. Dreams as brain tuneups
  26. Debate over the term Asperger's syndrome - continued
  27. How you feel - the brain's bottom up and top down pathways
  28. Partner photographs can reduce experimentally induced pain
  29. Evolution of the end of Origin of the Species
  30. An anatomical signature for literacy
  31. A little fellatio goes a long way...
  32. Manipulating sex differences in romantic selectivity
  33. Denialism
  34. Neural correlates of musical consonance and dissonance
  35. Can you believe...? The perfect product
  36. Genes that influence our adaptability to changing rewards
  37. Like us, monkeys don't like computer faces that are 'too real'.
  38. Our left and right hemispheres can selectively track expected value
  39. Genetic enhancement of memory.
  40. We can generate a novel body image internally, without external feedback
  41. Social functions of gossip
  42. The modern dating game.
  43. Asperger's syndrome to become Autism spectrum disorder?
  44. The dynamics of social inequality.
  45. The best way to measure brain signals...
  46. Dog smarts
  47. Wicked Manors....
  48. Prosociality in large human groups more likely due to culture than to genetics.
  49. A drug that protects prefrontal cortex from stress.

October 2009

  1. Extroverts and introverts
  2. The brain's anatomy of emotion induced by music.
  3. Dopamine, a molecule of motivation
  4. MindBlog on the road.
  5. A jaded view....
  6. Nature's lessons for a more kind society.
  7. Learning sculpts our spontaneous resting brain activity.
  8. Monkeys drumming - a gestural origin of speech and music?
  9. Meditation training can enhance the stability of our attention
  10. Election night 2008: testosterone level of male McCain voters dropped
  11. Emotional contagion without conscious awareness
  12. Health improves during economic depressions.
  13. The nagging thing you don't understand about yourself
  14. The ages of mankind
  15. The 'society of selves' in each of us
  16. The Fat and Short of It
  17. Social threat activates our body's inflammatory chemistry
  18. Genetic influences increase between early and middle childhood.
  19. Cognitive enhancement may come at a cost.
  20. The Teddy Bear Effect
  21. Perpetual revelations
  22. Taking it lying down...
  23. Rational Irrationality
  24. Temperature and social proximity
  25. Texting, surfing, studying...
  26. Bright-sided
  27. The illusion of sex
  28. The neuropsychology of religion - neural correlates of belief
  29. Facial width-to-height ratio predicts aggression
  30. Predicting our choice between risky and safe options..
  31. Personalized genetics and medicine
  32. Gene therapy restores vision to color-blind monkeys
  33. How nonsense sharpens our intellect
  34. Mummy Recipe Hard to Follow
  35. Where our brain computes value.
  36. Shrinking the Shrinks
  37. The high price of being a gay couple.
  38. How our brain's hard wiring is hooked by texting, twitter, email, googling...
  39. "Wanting" what was never "liked"
  40. Long live quest gets respect? The 120 Club.
  41. Brain organization of our defensive fear system.
  42. Seeing our body reduces pain
  43. When errors are rewarding
  44. The anxious temperament.
  45. Memory consolidation - a shift from hippocampal to neocortical sites
  46. Mindblog backlog...
  47. How our brain remembers the consequences of our actions
  48. Mindblindness in Asperger's syndrome

September 2009

  1. Green Porno.
  2. A new chemical fix for chronic depression??
  3. Out of Africa
  4. Nutrition and Violence
  5. How would you control eight legs?
  6. The Mind and LIfe Institute
  7. Size matters...
  8. Watch those shots of booze!
  9. Acting against our real self interest to preserve our self image
  10. Mindblog backlog...
  11. A new positive psychology website
  12. Observing the brain pathway that lowers anxiety
  13. A unique area for tool use in human versus monkey brains
  14. More on Brain Boosters
  15. Bird brains get even more clever.
  16. Societal trend of media multitasking is changing our cognitive control
  17. Mood elevating endorphine release greater with social than with solitary exercise
  18. MRI of emotions in a dead fish...
  19. Will there ever be a "healthy" diet?
  20. Rewards work better than punishment in enhancing cooperation
  21. Friendship networks revealed by cell phone data.
  22. Bad health is good business
  23. At risk for pathological gambling.
  24. What if you were born with only one cerebral hemisphere?
  25. We are the ones we've been waiting for?
  26. Yet another theory on why we sleep
  27. Why do we swear? For pain relief.
  28. Social contagion - Is happiness (or obesity) catching?
  29. How we change our decisions...
  30. How chaos drives the brain.
  31. Looming global disaster, anyone?
  32. Our brain's fast response to morally objectionable statements.
  33. How much sleep do we need?
  34. Stimulate your waking memory with an electrical cap
  35. Convergence of human and dog evolution, striving to please
  36. MindBlog posts in the queue
  37. Testosterone levels and long term career choices
  38. Moral conviction and religiosity - different in the viscera
  39. The amygdala contributes to both aversive and appetitive arousal
  40. Another reason I live in Wisconsin
  41. Why fear memories are hard to erase.
  42. Lessons from Hell
  43. Walter Kirn on performance enhancing drugs
  44. A cartoon...
  45. Some comic relief - talk about costume changes!
  46. The amygdala as the neural source of personal space.
  47. The placebo effect is hard wired into the brain
  48. Brain changes correlating with bipolar disorder.
  49. How did economists get it so wrong?
  50. Monkey music
  51. Reducing anxiety caused by early life social isolation.
  52. Our brains have separate hard wired categories for living and non-living objects
  53. Viva Happy Hour!
  54. Happiness and unhappiness in East and West
  55. Brief early exposure to high fat diet changes long term dietary habits
  56. Weight as an embodyment of importance.
  57. Gene variants that correlate with both psychosis and creativity?
  58. Fleeing from Facebook
  59. Woodland Peace
  60. Predicting child temperament - genes, brain and behavior
  61. Multitasking - bad for the brain?
  62. Five second touch sufficient to convey emotion.
  63. Our sense of smell is binaral.
  64. Get aroused and be stronger.
  65. Oxytocin Increases Envy and Schadenfreude (Gloating)
  66. More on "Running helps your knees?" and exercise

August 2009

  1. Monday musical offering - "Gade" from the lyrical pieces
  2. The power of the press.
  3. Genes predicting our individual differences in exploration and exploitation
  4. The biological residue of low early life social class.
  5. Comments on "Proust was a Neuroscientist"
  6. The poor payoff of pleasure postponed.
  7. Guilt and atonement in child development.
  8. Running helps your knees?
  9. Anxious temperament correlates with serotonin transporter availability.
  10. Phantom
  11. Aging may enhance procedural skill acquisition
  12. Surowiecki on health care and status quo anxiety
  13. An iPhone "Happiness" App
  14. More on stress and the brain.
  15. Cultural and Biological evolution similar, or not?
  16. Summer evenings
  17. Monkeys affiliate with humans who imitate them.
  18. What distinguishes our minds from those of other creatures?
  19. Stressed Memories
  20. Stem cells generate an entire functioning eye!
  21. Some neat visual illusions.
  22. Chronic stress dials the brain from adaptive to habitual behaviors.
  23. The smell of stress activates our amygdala.
  24. Independence of our logical inference and natural language
  25. A sane article on life-extending drugs.
  26. A nation's mood from its songs and blogs?
  27. Bilingual infants are more flexible learners.
  28. Even cockroaches get lonely.
  29. Brain activity accociated with honest and dishonest decisions.
  30. Our bias blind spot.
  31. Mindblog is back...
  32. Why health care reform is paralyzed...
  33. Happiness increasing in the blogosphere...

July 2009

  1. Deric's MindBlog on vacation in the UK.
  2. Taking turns in conversations - universals and cultural variation
  3. The "Neuro Revolution"
  4. Some midweek Chopin - a Polonaise
  5. Mapping the human brain "connectome"
  6. Science Tattoos
  7. The cognitive neuroscience of dyslexia and its repair
  8. Brain changes from childhood to young adulthood
  9. National Institutes of Health to be run by a religionist??
  10. For a mellow start to the week - a Grieg Nocturne
  11. Reason, emotion, and decision-making
  12. The unconscionable rip-offs of American cell phone companies
  13. Training our minds to move matter
  14. Why I take an omega-3 supplement before bedtime...
  15. Cortical thickness, MRI, and early Alzheimer's diagnosis
  16. Thursday morning Grieg, a Berceuse
  17. Positive self statements: power for some, peril for others
  18. Masturbation in the animal kingdom
  19. So....this is how my cat is manipulating me
  20. Rapamycin - a midlife longevity drug?
  21. The brain sets fatigue.
  22. To Sleep, Perchance to Analyze
  23. Insightful problem solving in birds.
  24. Lost in the internet cloud.
  25. Erotica
  26. The possibility of impossible cultures.
  27. The evolution of misbelief
  28. EEG prediction of lapses in attention.
  29. Feminize yourself by drinking bottled water....
  30. Melancholy...
  31. A sixth sense...
  32. Obamology
  33. Narrowing of intersensory speech perception in infancy
  34. Racial group membership modulates empathic brain responses.
  35. Happiness is just around the corner!
  36. Brain changes caused by encouraging expressions.
  37. Growing up blind does not change the neural bases of theory of mind.
  38. Empathetic accuracy
  39. Gender–science stereotypes predict national sex differences in science and math achievement
  40. Boiling the frog.
  41. Quiet music to start the week - a Grieg elegy
  42. Caloric restriction enhances longevity in monkeys
  43. Face perception - the "Thacher Effect" in monkeys
  44. Doing exactly what you don't want to do.
  45. Mate selection: women not more picky than men?
  46. Massive technological failure...
  47. For a perky start to your day....an Elves' Dance
  48. Feeling the beat....
  49. Neural correlates of our depth of strategic reasoning.
  50. Intellectual performance and the efficiency of functional brain networks.
  51. The synchronization of brains
  52. Calming aperitif for a Tuesday morning - a Grieg Arietta
  53. The computation of social behavior
  54. Stumbling blocks on the path of righteousness
  55. The age of reputation
  56. "Internet addiction disorder" in China
  57. Metzinger: A new kind of ethics.
  58. Old age: always older than you are...
  59. Meditation increases brain's gray matter?
  60. The "acts of kindness" iPhone app
  61. Metzinger: Consciousness technologies and the image of humankind
  62. Tool use and the evolution of intelligence.
  63. Increases and decreases in neural synchrony during our development
  64. When our brains short-circuit.
  65. Metzinger: A tour of the ego tunnel
  66. Demonstration of plastic body schema by tool use.
  67. Mental arithmetic uses brain's eye movement circuitry
  68. Metzinger: The appearance of a world
  69. Induction of empathy by the smell of anxiety
  70. REM sleep improves creativity by priming associative networks
  71. The evolution of God

June 2009

  1. Metzinger: introduction to "The Ego Tunnel"
  2. On becoming cultural - models for evolution of human behavior
  3. Nonverbal Status Cues Alter Perceived Size
  4. Regret in animals
  5. No evidence for mirror neurons in humans?!
  6. Positive and negative emotions bias the earliest stages of our visual processing.
  7. Hardwired human nature?
  8. The Stonewall Riots
  9. Risky behaviors: genetic predisposition countered by behavioral intervention
  10. Pretty Please....
  11. An evolutionary rationale for blushing.
  12. Gender, culture, and mathematics performance
  13. Unconscious motor control that conflicts with conscious awareness.
  14. Boosting your serotonin reduces responsiveness to aggression
  15. Questioning the link between brain size and sociality
  16. Anticipating monetary and social reward - differing brain activations in men and women.
  17. Lost in the sauce - alcohol and mind wandering
  18. Mathematical and linguistic syntax: different brain areas
  19. Money, social distress, and physical pain
  20. Aging, isolation, and internet social networks
  21. Why we pig out.
  22. Do we trust our eyes or our ears?
  23. Models of life's origins - great videos
  24. Gene for depression debunked...
  25. Zap your brain to enhance your planning ability
  26. Prayer in devoutly religious people recruits social cognition brain areas.
  27. Back from vacation - A new variety of MindBlog post....reader poll.
  28. Stress triggers our habitual behaviors
  29. You want to know the truth? Then don't mimic!
  30. Economy still at the brink
  31. Brain Music
  32. MindBlog is taking a vacation
  33. The genetics of musical aptitude
  34. Language influence on color perception.
  35. Cognitive Illusions
  36. Genes to cognition
  37. Attention training and attention state training
  38. Lucid old age.
  39. Empathy Marketing 101
  40. Stress pathways that impair prefrontal cortex.
  41. Parietal brain neurons tuned to fractions
  42. More Chopin, the Polonaise No. 1
  43. Liberals and Conservatives feel differently

May 2009

  1. Hugs
  2. The coming superbrain?
  3. Your own brain gym.
  4. Subcortical enhancement of musical intervals in musicians
  5. The amusic brain
  6. The management of our attention
  7. Semantic versus behavioral deficits in left versus right fronto-temporal lobe atrophies
  8. A musical offering for this week - Chopin Nocture in C minor
  9. Neural correlates of vicarious reward.
  10. Evidence for separate semantic and syntactic processing in deaf native signers.
  11. Massage stimulates brain development
  12. SenseCam - a device for restoring and protecting memories
  13. What we will never be able to talk about - Ineffability
  14. Money doesn't make us happy, certainty does.
  15. Status is everything?
  16. Bad drives reactions, Good propels behaviors
  17. Why I am loyal to Wisconsin...
  18. Hubris syndrome: An acquired personality disorder?
  19. Meditation alters autonomic and central nervous system interaction.
  20. Arts and the Brain
  21. Enhanced attention skills in video game players.
  22. Genetic bias of our amygdala-mediated economic decisions
  23. A new brain correlate of intention.
  24. Evolutionary change driven by sufficiency, not survival
  25. How the brain talks to itself - errors in emotional prediction
  26. Brain activation in cocaine addicts caused by drug words
  27. Stepping backwards enhances cognitive control.
  28. Putting Off Growing Old
  29. Experience as what we agree to attend to...
  30. Prelinguistic infants, but not chimps, signal absent entities
  31. Judging honesty by story telling.
  32. Antioxidants bad for you?
  33. Ramachandran and the plastic brain.
  34. Misconceptions of Memory: The Scooter Libby Effect
  35. Brain correlates of self-transcendent emotions
  36. The amazing aging brain - continued
  37. Gross national happiness
  38. The neuroeconomics of taking your pick.
  39. Are E-readers our future?
  40. Faith in flux...
  41. Issue of our times: concentration versus distractability
  42. Civilization has caused the decline of human health
  43. Playing video games improves basic visual function.
  44. Special nerves for pleasant social touch.
  45. Monday morning music - Chopin Nocturne in C# minor - posthumous
  46. Risk-dependent reward value signal in human prefrontal cortex
  47. Our amygdala is more responsive to pleasant words
  48. Reminders of age undermine memory
  49. REM sleep enhances storage of emotional memories
  50. Friends and a long life.

April 2009

  1. Features of Einstein's brain.
  2. Juicing up your brain
  3. The emerging bottom-up world order?
  4. Born to be Good
  5. The quest for compassion
  6. Enlightenment therapy?
  7. Econophysics - a model that explains the crash
  8. Childhood poverty, chronic stress, and adult working memory
  9. Failure to find effect of estrogen or testosterone on economic behavior.
  10. The sapient paradox
  11. Risk and reward processing in different prefrontal areas
  12. Can evolution explain how minds work?
  13. Cortical thinning in people with familial risk for major depression
  14. The Green Brain
  15. Music and the brain - rhythm and pleasure
  16. A bird that follows human eye movements.
  17. Chimps exchange meat for sex
  18. Link between brain anatomy, personality, and the placebo analgesic response
  19. The shoplifting "high"
  20. The power of positive thinking.
  21. Automatically extracting group membership from faces.
  22. Science by machine....
  23. Pride
  24. Sleeping to reset overstimulated brain connections
  25. Cognitive gains in bilingual infants
  26. Illusory control
  27. Social motives for syntax.
  28. Social isolation enhances neuroinflammatory response to stroke.
  29. Sinning Saints and Saintly Sinners
  30. Seeing is remembering
  31. The 100 year old neuroscientist
  32. Family Tree
  33. Sites for abstract versus concrete actions in frontal lobes.
  34. Neural mechanism of first impressions.
  35. Thinking like a trader reduces your loss aversion.
  36. Fetal ethanol exposure increases ethanol intake of offspring
  37. Visual neglect overcome by pleasant music
  38. The end of moral philosophy
  39. Another Twitter parody...
  40. Medial prefrontal cortex exhibits money illusion
  41. Delayed brain development in humans compared with other primates
  42. MindBlog is on the road again.
  43. The surprising power of neighborly advice.
  44. Language shapes fundamental unconscious visual perception.
  45. Previous choice shapes MRI signals reflecting future expectation and choice
  46. The decline of science journalism.
  47. An online 'science of happiness' course.
  48. Facebook, Twitter...can evolution keep up with us? A coming crash?
  49. MindBlog on Twitter
  50. Want some diet soda?
  51. iParticipate - social participation networks
  52. Markers of conscious access.

March 2009

  1. The enlightenment returns.
  2. Brain structures that correlate with impulse control in boys.
  3. Future shock...
  4. Restore damaged brain circuits with light...
  5. Digit ratios and high frequency trading
  6. We are all wired differently - first analysis of a mammalian "connectome"
  7. Observing a brain rewiring itself
  8. I feel what you feel if we are similar
  9. Who you are depends on how you feel.
  10. Globalization and the internet enhance world cooperation...
  11. Globalization and the internet diminish cooperation.
  12. Why jokes are hard to remember.
  13. Pride: Adaptive Social Emotion or Seventh Sin?
  14. Musical training enhances detection of emotional components of speech.
  15. A model for the outbreak of cooperation.
  16. Empathy modulated by genetic background.
  17. Neural correlates of aesthetic preference - differences between men and women
  18. A map of knowledge
  19. How to lower your self control.
  20. Gay scientists isolate christian gene.
  21. Gesturing enhances learning in children
  22. Rehab, neuroscience, and religion
  23. Negative attitude towards aging when young: decrease in later cardiovascular health.
  24. Mental fatigue impairs our physical performance.
  25. The Ricky Gervais Show on the "I-Illusion"
  26. Neural correlates of religious belief - neuroscience and spirituality
  27. To be less helpful to others, watch violent media...
  28. How to enhance the wisdom of one...
  29. Roots of our social glue
  30. The Myth of Language Universals
  31. MindBlog's winter office...
  32. How to keep from stumbling on steps...
  33. Neuroscience and the soul.
  34. Saving the world...
  35. Persistent effect of early abuse or deprivation on immune function in humans.
  36. From oral to moral
  37. Brain activity started by music you think you are going to hear.
  38. A mother's experience can alter her offspring's memory performance.
  39. Why pay university tuition?
  40. Our genes influence our social networks
  41. Brain correlates of musical improvisation.
  42. Erasing fear responses and preventing the return of fear.
  43. Transcendence from Neuroscience
  44. Genetic determinants of financial risk taking
  45. The gourmet palete - an exercise in hedonistic psychology
  46. Thought for the day - the Twitter Bubble
  47. How early abuse in humans changes the adult brain.
  48. For a tranquil start to your week, Debussy with flowers
  49. Biased minds make better inferences.
  50. A common brain substrate for evaluating physical and social space.

February 2009

  1. Gesture and language acquisition
  2. Followup on genes and language
  3. Envy and Schadenfreude in the brain.
  4. Fetal testosterone predicts male-typical play.
  5. Monoamine oxidase A gene predicts aggression following provocation
  6. Musical training enhances linguistic abilities in children
  7. Training your working memory increases your cortical Dopamine D1 receptors
  8. Malthusian information famine
  9. Some Chopin for a Monday morning.
  10. How we decide how big a reward is...
  11. Similar risk assessment in man and mouse.
  12. How cute is that baby's face - hormones regulate the answer.
  13. Modulation of the brain's emotion circuits by facial muscle feedback
  14. The smell of fear modulates our perception of threat in faces
  15. Men tolerate their peers better than women
  16. When losing control can be useful.
  17. If it is difficult to pronounce, it must be risky.
  18. Brain imaging can reflect expected, rather than actual, nerve activity
  19. Knowledge about how we know changes everything.
  20. Robocop and cello scrotum
  21. Brain correlates of dealing with risk versus ambiguity
  22. Placebos, curing within...
  23. Run for the hills.....
  24. Faster evolution means more ethnic differences.
  25. Caloric restriction improves memory
  26. Pavlovian conditioning can transfer from the virtual world to the real world
  27. Language evolved to fit the human brain, rather than the reverse.
  28. Happy 200th birthday to Charles Darwin!
  29. MindBlog's third Podcast - Mindstuff: A user's guide
  30. Worldwide human energy networking
  31. Fingerprints enhance the sense of touch.
  32. God needn't actually exist to have evolved
  33. For memory enhancement, the kind of sleep you get is important
  34. The unconscious psychology of color.
  35. Supersizing the Mind
  36. MindBlog's third birthday.
  37. Apply mild electric current to your head, improve your motor skills
  38. Never ending childhood...
  39. Psychosocial stress inhibits prefrontal function
  40. Drinking coffee lowers dementia
  41. Synchrony and Cooperation
  42. Conceptual similarity of biological and cultural development
  43. MindBlog's second PodCast - "The Beast Within"
  44. I don't believe in atheists
  45. Incorporation of misinformation during memory reconsolidation
  46. It's hard to be dignified when your name is....
  47. Some monday morning music
  48. The epistemology of everything

January 2009

  1. Estrogen receptors in the male medial amygdala disrupt social behavior.
  2. The dolphin as gourmet chef: how to prepare cuttlefish
  3. Soul-travel for selfless beings
  4. Neural correlates of third party punishment.
  5. MindBlog's first PodCast: "The I-Illusion"
  6. Seeing who we hear and hearing who we see
  7. Eating dirt is good for you.
  8. Seeing ourselves as eddies in the stream of entropy
  9. The Machine Stops
  10. MindBlog does a gig on a happiness webcast/podcast
  11. A new kind of mind.
  12. Most downloaded consciousness papers of 2008
  13. Getting the dead to talk back.
  14. Predicting risk taking
  15. Some clarity on alternative therapies and medical science
  16. Prosopagnosia due to reduced cortical connectivity
  17. Sex, sweat and your brain
  18. Why we hiccup.
  19. Species conservation - how being helpful hurts
  20. Oxytocin makes a face in memory familiar
  21. Brain games for you, coming soon from Mattel
  22. MRI of human social values?
  23. Finger length predicts successful financial trading!
  24. Insults and joys of old age...
  25. The dead end of current economic models...
  26. A neurosciences site feed aggregator
  27. Cartoon instructions for some neat sensory illusions.
  28. The neuroscience of love
  29. Followup on 'Reinventing the sacred'....
  30. Bees on cocaine...
  31. MRI in the courtroom as witness on pain?
  32. Sneakiness and brain size
  33. We infer rather than perceive the moment we decided to act.
  34. Anxiety correlates with diminished prefrontal control of attention.
  35. How do you feel — now? The anterior insula and human awareness
  36. A trick for appreciating the present moment
  37. Unconscious threats increase moral affirmations
  38. Reinventing the sacred
  39. Excuses: both ego defense and self sabotage
  40. Ramachandran on qualia and the self.
  41. Aging - Memory decline, sugar control, and emotional memories
  42. Get religious to improve self control?
  43. Cleanliness reduces the severity of moral judgements.
  44. Heaven for the Godless?
  45. Rapid perceptual switching...
  46. Brain lesions and sprituality
  47. Living the Off-Label Life

2008 567

December 2008

  1. Genetics of successful placebo response to stress.
  2. Upper limb amputees can sense a rubber hand as their own
  3. Musing on the topic of well-being or happiness...
  4. Hemispheric shift of categorical color perception during brain development.
  5. Sharing today's New York Times
  6. How social status shapes race.
  7. Altering our self-face recognition
  8. The net generation
  9. Men are red, women are green.
  10. Bach oratorio on period instruments.
  11. Cognitive benefits of a walk in the woods
  12. Seasonal Nostalgia
  13. Knowing where and knowing how to get there - a dissociation in the rubber hand illusion.
  14. Effect of candidate appearance on election outcomes - neural correlates
  15. Enhanced perception of threat during limited attention
  16. Our motor cortex responds to musical rhythms.
  17. Video Introduction to Experimental Philosophy
  18. Avian Dancing
  19. Crisis of Confidence for Masters of the Universe
  20. Why are we so nice? ...because generosity wins.
  21. Wheel of life.
  22. How a cognition enhancing drug works.
  23. Advocacy of cognition enhancing drugs.
  24. This is so kewl.....
  25. Crazy Money
  26. Conflict: Altruism's midwife
  27. Dogs have sense of fairness.
  28. If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping
  29. I would love to try this...
  30. Spread of Happiness - a network analysis.
  31. Cool Brain Trick....
  32. Compendium of brain blogs...
  33. Changing our body image can change pain perception.
  34. Larger hippocampus and superior pathfinding in the blind
  35. Neural mechanisms underlying memory failure in older adults
  36. Prefrontal regions mediating resistance versus vulnerability to depression.
  37. Degraded surroundings degrade behavior
  38. Does your cell phone signal damange your DNA? - round two
  39. MindBlog has moved south...
  40. Foundations of neuroeconomics.
  41. Cyberchondria
  42. Resveratrol promotes repair of DNA breaks that occur on aging
  43. Ventral and dorsal pathways for language
  44. Destroying memories to strengthen them
  45. Measuring the real-time chemistry of reward and aversion
  46. Teaching robots right from wrong
  47. The Psychology of Transcending the Present
  48. Superorganisms
  49. Neurotech

November 2008

  1. What happy people don't do.
  2. Slow Blogging....
  3. The Wall Street Bonus degrades rather than enhancing performance.
  4. Contempt and disgust - sexual differences in brain responses
  5. Reading the drug side-effects label can make you sick.
  6. Another herbal miracle drug fails to pan out....
  7. Reversal of fear in the human brain
  8. How we learn to value others
  9. Potential flaws in unconscious bias tests
  10. Cultural specificity in amygdala response to fear faces
  11. The innovative brain
  12. Alexithymia
  13. Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor - a new version
  14. Towards a Moral Neuropolitics
  15. Making your tennis racquet part of your brain's body representation
  16. Why do intelligent people live longer?
  17. Religion and visual attention
  18. The way we age
  19. Massive reorganization of visual cortex at the level of dendritic spines..
  20. A novel theory of mental disorders
  21. Language evolution embedded in cooperative social context
  22. The subliminal power of logos
  23. Is the financial meltdown a guy thing?
  24. From Genes to Social Behavior
  25. Suffering Souls
  26. Most popular MindBlog posts...
  27. Sleep loss produces false memories.
  28. Undoing cocaine's consequences.
  29. During learning - competition between two memory systems.
  30. Enhanced logical consistency in autism.
  31. Using both sides of your brain.
  32. Chill-out...
  33. Symbolic markers, cultural groups, and ingroup favoritism
  34. Values of early music training.
  35. The creationists go to war over the brain.
  36. A conference on "Happiness and its Causes."
  37. Our brain's large scale functional architecture.
  38. The belt of enlightenment...
  39. Could you figure this out?
  40. Language conflict in the bilingual brain
  41. Disputed definitions: paradigm shift
  42. A break from watching the election returns....
  43. The psychology of voting - US readers: VOTE TODAY!
  44. Neuroeconomics - the neural circuitry of overbidding
  45. The behavioral revolution in economics
  46. Explanatory Neurophilia - seduction without cause
  47. Happiness, Eudaimonia, etc.
  48. MindBlog as election worker...
  49. What is the difference between a 40 and a 70 year old brain...

October 2008

  1. A question to readers... MindBlog podcasts?
  2. Fan Mail
  3. Psychology of the electorate
  4. Emergent properties of human groups
  5. Religion: Bound to believe?
  6. Fair and Balanced - measuring media bias
  7. Watching the amygdala signal the good and the bad
  8. Happiness and the 'prosperoscope'
  9. Instinctual math
  10. Views of the presidential candidates on science
  11. Poulenc Novelette in C major for a Monday morning
  12. Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth
  13. Embodied cognition, a cold stare makes you feel cold.
  14. Drinking alone, with "friends" on Facebook
  15. Distortion of science by headline-grabbing
  16. How we know our own minds...
  17. Different aspects of human intelligence correlate with cortical thickness versus neural activation.
  18. Sleep accelerates improvement in working memory.
  19. Cognitive therapy versus medication for depression
  20. Our somatosensory cortex embodies the facial expressions of others
  21. Botnets
  22. Evolution of Religious Prosociality
  23. Redefining Depression as Mere Sadness
  24. The iPathology of your iBrain
  25. Bayesian estimation on the presidential election.
  26. The rise of the machines
  27. Men and women - different gene expression changes in brain on aging
  28. Embodyment and Art
  29. Arguing for Embodied Consciousness
  30. Your bladder and your brain.
  31. Applied neuroeconomics - the fear of loss
  32. Wordwatchers
  33. MRI of moral emotions while causing harm.
  34. This year's Ig-Noble prize in cognitive science goes to a slime mold
  35. How context can set our emotional reaction to a smell.
  36. Autistic people have the visual acuity of hawks.
  37. Early Fall on Twin Valley Road
  38. We seek mates that resemble our opposite-sex parents.
  39. Light exciting our eyes, an intimate picture.
  40. Models to compute and predict our current economic chaos?
  41. Visualization challenge.
  42. Hope that we might be governed by the head rather than the gut?
  43. Instinctual basis of fury at Wall Street
  44. Feeling helpless can enhance our magical thinking
  45. A college course blog - The Biology of Mind course at the Univ. of Wisconsin
  46. Our visual long-term memory has a massive storage capacity for object details
  47. How do you like your coffee?
  48. A Grieg Air for Monday morning
  49. Political Attitudes Vary with Physiological Traits
  50. Subliminal Neuroeconomics
  51. Is the bisphenol (BPA) in plastic products making us dumb?
  52. Take a bird-nap, not a cat nap.
  53. For a kid to learn - positive strokes work way better than negative.
  54. Brain correlates of the muting of our emotions as we age.
  55. Is Art the future of Science?

September 2008

  1. Can you see me?
  2. Male promiscuity versus monogamy in humans nudged by same genes as in Prarie Voles
  3. The sucker to saint effect.
  4. Brain processing of action language influenced by sports experience.
  5. A memory activates the same brain cells as the original experience.
  6. The teenage brain.
  7. Online brain and cognitive science courses
  8. A taste test for depression?
  9. Training young brains to behave
  10. Social exclusion causes unconscious mimicry
  11. Chill out aids
  12. Gender gaps widen
  13. Cherokee story for a Monday morning...
  14. Neural correlates of Zen meditation
  15. Bad mothering, good fathering..
  16. YouTube for test tubes...
  17. Our brains try multiple meanings before a word is finished.
  18. Development of sharing in human children.
  19. Symmetrical bodies are the sexiest...an underlying reason
  20. Stress during pregnancy hard on males
  21. More on digitial intimacy - MindBlog followers and demographics
  22. Our aging brains - impaired suppression of distracting information
  23. Digital Intimacy
  24. What will happen in the next ten years?
  25. On a lite note - another market collapse...
  26. Brooks on how the Republicans just don't get it....
  27. Watching practice change the brain cortex.
  28. Inducing persistent false beliefs is easy.
  29. Listening to Resveratrol
  30. Chinese kids are ahead even before elementary school...
  31. Watching the testosterone crash in anxious men who lose a contest.
  32. La gazza ladra passes the mirror test - a crow with a self!
  33. Neural correlates of consciousness
  34. When a referee sees red...
  35. Culture shapes how we look at faces.
  36. Sleep preferentially enhances our emotional memories
  37. Our body language of pride and shame is innate
  38. MindBlog strikes it rich...
  39. Subjective/Objective - applying real-time fMRI
  40. Predictability determines whether our attention fades away.
  41. Vasopressin receptor genes of philandering men
  42. We can use our visual cortex for touch
  43. Updating our memory requires its original context.
  44. The neural correlates of desire...
  45. Predicting the choices of undecided voters - the unseen mind
  46. Update on my "Biology of Mind" book - an ebook version
  47. Ability to use symbols appeared 35 million years ago?
  48. Cultural evolution in the laboratory

August 2008

  1. Intelligence enhancing software - continued...
  2. Do our noses sniff danger in the air?
  3. The discovery of structural form
  4. New software for your iPhone to make you smart
  5. Evolution "for the Good of the Group"
  6. Brain Candy
  7. Phantom Penises In Transsexuals
  8. MindBlog's editorial assistant
  9. A simple metric to infer personality from facial expression
  10. Weekly musical offering - Stars & Stripes FOREVER!
  11. Brain changes that correlate with successful dyslexia therapy
  12. Cat Pols
  13. Oxytocin attenuates aversive reactions
  14. Self interest versus the common good in economic policy design.
  15. Cute Cat Overload on the Web
  16. Brain Correlates of Borderline Personality Disorder
  17. Our expressions of fear and disgust serve specific adaptive purposes
  18. Mindblog does an experiment with resveratrol, the anti-aging compound.
  19. The Mind Does the Tricks for a Magician
  20. Anticipation of movement suppresses sensory awareness.
  21. Brooks on status rules and collectivism
  22. Different social attachment styles - different brain structures.
  23. The emerging web Leviathan - paranoia over search and content
  24. Right hemisphere more involved in self recognition of body parts.
  25. Circuits that switch fear ON and OFF
  26. Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Improves Language Learning
  27. Frontal Cortex: unconscious inhibitory control
  28. Music for the week... Ode to Joy
  29. MindBlog at the Chicago Art Institue
  30. Culture-sensitive neural substrates of human cognition.
  31. Behavioral therapy can reverse chronic fatigue syndrome and increase prefrontal volume
  32. Mental imagergy induces cortical reorganization that reduces phantom limb pain
  33. Sexual orientation - basis in brain structure and function
  34. Genetics of political behaviors - molecular level
  35. Your nose, and your bored brain...
  36. A new perspective on the genetic basis of brain diseases
  37. Gender differences in math performance...
  38. The theologians, the neurologists, and God
  39. Mendelssohn, conclusion
  40. Lifespan Mental Activity Predicts Diminished Rate of Hippocampal Atrophy
  41. We learn abstract categories unconsciously.
  42. Would I pull that switch?

July 2008

  1. Your genes and your politics.
  2. A Twin Valley collage
  3. Moral Hypocrisy
  4. The Curious Parallel of Language and Species Evolution
  5. If I'm Not Hot, Are You Hot or Not?
  6. WikiPathways...
  7. Nasty, brutish and short - a record lifespan
  8. Brain correlates of insight - the Eureka! moment
  9. Mendelssohn, continued
  10. Resveratrol, anti-aging, continued...
  11. Our relationship with mirrors...
  12. Update on drugs that might increase lifespan
  13. Psychopharma-parenting
  14. Monoamine oxidase gene variant that correlates with aggression.
  15. MindBlog's half-sour pickle recipe
  16. Observing nerve cells rewire themselves after stroke damage.
  17. fMRI of perspective taking with robots!
  18. Most popular consciousness papers
  19. How we impose a natural order on events...
  20. Mendelssohn, continued
  21. The 'connectome' of our cerebral cortex
  22. The Bio-Rad PCR song
  23. Ubiquity of same-sex couplings in nature.
  24. Buy an automatic pipette from a boy band?
  25. The relaxation response correlates with changes in gene expression
  26. Chopin's Heart
  27. Persistence of anxious temperament - brain correlates
  28. Self interest versus 'moral sentiment' in economic policy
  29. Mendelssohn piano trios....
  30. The choices you make - indirect social influence.
  31. Resveratrol - protection from ravages of aging.
  32. Where Ritalin acts in the brain to focus attention.
  33. As new kind of science, as data deluge makes the scientific method obsolete...
  34. Meditation and executive function - untraining the brain.
  35. Worried sick...achieving wellness?
  36. Ecocultural basis of cognition
  37. Brain regions active during different economic decisions.
  38. Another Happiness Survey
  39. Piazolla - Otono Portena
  40. Brain Foods...
  41. MRI of mental time travel.
  42. When your brain Lies to You
  43. Brain markers that predict vulnerability to psychosis.
  44. Bias at the ballot box.
  45. A Piazolla Tango
  46. Why are musical chords cheerful or melancholy?
  47. Making Memories, Again
  48. The Toronto Village
  49. Discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds?
  50. Most popular consciousness papers...

June 2008

  1. MindBlog on the road
  2. Young and old brains differ in encoding positive information
  3. ScienceHack - monkey brain moving robotic arm
  4. Best visual illusion of the year
  5. The brain's default network - a review
  6. More from the great curmudgeon...
  7. A memorial for our president...
  8. Retaliation for unfairness - depends on serotonin
  9. Trust in oxytocin.
  10. Are the religionists lightening up?
  11. Can 'emergence' put spirituality back into nature?
  12. Brain exercise/fitness links...
  13. Strengths and Limits of fMRI studies on the brain
  14. Neuro-puffs and neuropundits...
  15. A new perspective on culture-specific behavior
  16. A population genetic analysis of male homosexuality
  17. More on gay and straight brains.
  18. A new mind blog...
  19. Increasing complexity of nerve synapses during evolution
  20. Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology
  21. Anticipating the Future to ‘See’ the Present
  22. Evaluating mental exercises
  23. Schizophrenia and the Brain
  24. Social cognition in plants?
  25. A great curmudgeon of our times...
  26. Incense is psychoactive.
  27. Obama and Neuroeconomics
  28. Why Are Conservatives Happier Than Liberals?
  29. Only a theory!
  30. Toasting the Joys of Imbibing Properly
  31. Seeing ourselves / Seeing others - built in errors
  32. Dan Dennett: Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes
  33. Valse Romantique
  34. Growing new brain cells enhanced by social contact
  35. The neural circuits of free choice
  36. The futurist: machines as smart as ourselves
  37. Sarcasm and the right parahippocampal gyrus...
  38. Social heirarchy, stress, and diet
  39. Spatial memory requires new nerve cells.
  40. Sex differences in judging attractiveness - brain correlates
  41. Body odors - brain processing different from similar common odors
  42. Update on resveratrol and aging...
  43. Brain Rules
  44. Healing and sedative effects of music.
  45. The Evolution of Music
  46. Neurobiology of trust
  47. Brief Bach, and its piano and windows
  48. Do chimpanzees have a theory of mind? 30 years later

May 2008

  1. Models of cognitive control in prefrontal cortex.
  2. Music becoming a monoculture...
  3. What and Where pathways in auditory brain
  4. Meeting George Bush versus Meeting Cinderella
  5. Older adults have a broader attention span
  6. Lotus therapy
  7. Blogging as self-medication
  8. Another reason for being gay?
  9. A Chopin Nocturne...
  10. For your memorial day holiday hangover
  11. Tones of Ancient Greece
  12. Most popular consciousness papers
  13. Are you a morning person? - mood and body clocks
  14. Tranquility...
  15. Brain imaging of belief, disbelief, and uncertainty
  16. MindBlog becomes a drop-out student at a brain enhancement site
  17. An aging guide...
  18. MRI - the new phrenology
  19. The MRI of morality?
  20. Some Chopin to start the week...
  21. Lacking power diminishes cognitive function
  22. Rapid orienting to positive, as well as negative, emotional stimuli.
  23. Our facial touch sensitivity - enhanced by viewing a touch.
  24. Brain monoamine oxidase activity predicts male aggression
  25. The Neural Buddhists
  26. Your sexy voice and your hormones.
  27. Your lips in my brain...
  28. Want to chill out? Exaggerate you abilities.
  29. Personality dominance: reflection in brain imaging and spatial attention
  30. Our brains can choose our actions 10 sec before awareness
  31. Brain exercises
  32. The Posterior–Anterior Shift in Aging
  33. At Deric and MindBlog's home...
  34. Despair, Inc.
  35. Happiness is...
  36. An integrated view of our subjective energies.
  37. Attention regulation in meditation

April 2008

  1. Enhance your working intelligence with simple exercises...
  2. Fairness activates brain reward circuitry.
  3. More on language and perception...
  4. The secret life of emotions.
  5. For a calm start to your week... some Debussy
  6. A longevity-o-meter
  7. If you haven't OD'ed on the internet already....
  8. Brain network disruption during aging.
  9. Brain imaging can predict the mistakes you are about to make.
  10. Positive psychology - a new organization
  11. An antidepressant enhances brain plasticity
  12. Space versus body based number representation
  13. Testosterone predicts financial profitability
  14. Mine is longer than yours....
  15. Stirring Dull roots with spring rain... at Twin Valley
  16. A mouse model for PTSD suggests a therapy
  17. 8-month-old infants use intuitive statistics..
  18. Even brief stress can zap your brain...
  19. What do you see and not see?
  20. Money makes us happy...
  21. Brain changes in dyslexia - different in Hong Kong and Chicago
  22. Release of creativity by frontotemporal dementia
  23. Emotion enhancing learning and memory - a mechanism
  24. Negligent mouse moms - a model for humans?
  25. Enhancing our memories with brain implants.
  26. Language evolution and the arcuate fasciculus
  27. Neuroenhancement - continued....
  28. Light deprivation damages neurons and causes depression
  29. Leaving Austin...
  30. Rationalization of our choices - statistics rather than psychology?
  31. Episodic-like memory in rats - not like humans
  32. Creating Musical Variation
  33. Simple curves can influence whether we see happy or sad faces.
  34. Our Racist, Sexist Selves
  35. The Amazing Aging Brain
  36. The social cognitive neuroscience of business organizations
  37. The spiritual side of atheism
  38. Report from the road - Central Texas Bluebonnets
  39. The social brain in adolescence - a review
  40. Preschool children's narratives predict later math performance
  41. Report from the road...
  42. Runner's High - endorphin release finally demonstated
  43. Infants to adults, color perception switches from right to left hemisphere
  44. The 'size' of an odor can influence our reaching to grasp an object.
  45. Antidepressant effects of eating less.
  46. MindBlog hits the road....
  47. Mind Reading with fMRI

March 2008

  1. Regulating the brain circuits of compassion
  2. Gay Scientists Isolate Christianity Gene
  3. Rodent trained to be Las Vegas croupier
  4. The mind's eye in number space
  5. A hierarchy of temporal receptive windows in our brains
  6. Anxiety: fear in seach of a cause
  7. Depressing news: antidepressants don't work?
  8. Differing perception of facial expressions in the East and West
  9. Heritability of cooperative behavior
  10. Neuroimaging shows use of self thoughts to infer others' mental states
  11. Emonomics
  12. A bit of piano...
  13. Most popular consciousness articles for February
  14. The maturing architecture of the brain's default network
  15. Analogies between cultural and genetic evolution - the case of polynesian canoes
  16. Amazing Images...
  17. A new brain book...
  18. Our motor adaptation as a process of reoptimization.
  19. Relativity of space, time and magnitude representation in our brains
  20. A fiery piano performance...
  21. In Most Species, Faithfulness Is a Fantasy
  22. Influence of language on brain activity underlying perceptual decisions
  23. Reality getting to you?
  24. The brain and emotion-laden images: two pathways
  25. Awaress and attention: different brain processes
  26. Upset? Reduce your blood pressure by switching to 3rd person view.
  27. Watching yourself during a brain stroke...
  28. Our innate number sense.
  29. Innate fear of snakes in young humans
  30. Why smoking pot chills you out...
  31. The Genetics of Personality and Well-Being
  32. The age of American unreason
  33. Adolescent outbursts related to prefrontal and amygdala sizes
  34. Brain imaging of our parental instinct
  35. More on Brain Enhancement
  36. Moral Neuropolitics
  37. A voice region in the monkey brain
  38. The social brains of Hyenas
  39. Watching musical improvisation in the brain
  40. The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors
  41. Reasoning about our irrational ways
  42. A test for Alzheimer's risk
  43. Chill out, and your wounds will heal faster.
  44. The Fires of Aging

February 2008

  1. A primer on executive function in the prefrontal cortex
  2. Kahneman on happiness.
  3. Your pupils reveal shifts in your perception
  4. Study increases learning less than testing...
  5. Bright light and good moods...
  6. Life expectancy increases
  7. Love speed dating
  8. Watching an anesthetic block emotional memory
  9. Languages shape the nuts and bolts of our perception.
  10. Watching waves of activity sweep across the brain
  11. Consciousness papers for January
  12. Your amygdala and your blood pressure
  13. Oliver Sachs on Migraines
  14. Video game addiction, and taking play seriously.
  15. Killer Instincts.
  16. Human and Animal Math
  17. The view from my window....
  18. Persuasion, bonding, and social mimicry
  19. Need something to worry about? Climate tipping points...
  20. High-Functioning Autism: a neural phenotype in the cingulate cortex
  21. A non-invasive brain-machine interface?
  22. Creating new worlds - science and fiction as the same thing
  23. The Best Men Are (Not Always) Already Taken
  24. Painful or disgusting? - ask parietal and cingulate cortex
  25. Are today's young people really more narcissistic?
  26. 100% accuracy in automatic face detection.
  27. Need an antidepressant?
  28. Could a presidential debate on science backfire?
  29. Sharing posts, bookmarking, related content, etc.
  30. Your brain is shrinking sooner than you thought...
  31. The incubator of suicide attacks - Fictive Kinship
  32. Back in Wisconsin....
  33. MindBlog's second anniversary
  34. Middle Age Misery
  35. The World in the Brain
  36. Nicholas Humphrey on consciousness...
  37. Evolutionary psychology on steroids...
  38. Staying a Step Ahead of Aging
  39. Accurate visual movement without visual perception in normal subjects
  40. Our left hemisphere is superior at perceiving global topology.
  41. Poetry in your genome?
  42. Stronger or weaker brain synapses after sleep?
  43. The algorithms of love...
  44. Super Bowl preliminaries....the anthropoligist from Mars
  45. Will cognition-enhancing drugs become as acceptable as coffee?
  46. Faith and Healing
  47. The fruits of promiscuity...more dancing and food

January 2008

  1. Why men are at the top.
  2. Creationists launch 'science' journal
  3. George Lakoff on Obama vs. Hillary
  4. Newborn humans: predisposition for biological motion
  5. Songbirds also have mirror neurons.
  6. More on the evils of multitasking.
  7. Pinker et al. on the logic of indirect speech.
  8. More Retro Video
  9. Are you holding your breath?
  10. Why you think that $100 bottle of wine is better...
  11. The new commonwealth
  12. Immune system subjugation of the brain
  13. Does the internet liberate or enslave us?
  14. Remember Disco??
  15. The myth of the mid-life crisis.
  16. Terror alerts kill more people than terrorists in the US?
  17. The Impressionable Brain
  18. Antidepressant effects of exercise - a mechanism
  19. GENES R US
  20. A Debussy Ballade - music for the start of the week
  21. The bouncer in the brain...
  22. Meditation Research
  23. Pinker on the 'moral instinct'
  24. Exercise effects on brain and cognition
  25. Permanent Reincarnation
  26. Coevolution of choosiness and cooperation
  27. Planned Obsolescence? The Four-Year Itch
  28. The neural control of vigor
  29. There are No Moral Facts - Metzinger
  30. Listening with your visual cortex.
  31. Face perception after no experience of faces
  32. We Differ More Than We Thought
  33. Please Clap, Talk or Shout at Any Time
  34. Regret
  35. Compensatory neural plasticity in aging human brains.
  36. What have you changed your mind about?
  37. Drunken flies get hypersexual - and gay
  38. Love hangover - the sex peptide
  39. More on laughing rats...and human chanting?
  40. The value of believing in free will.
  41. A YouTube for ideas......
  42. Why can't we perform perfectly?
  43. Hope worse than Hopelessness
  44. Clutter - more in the brain than in the house...
  45. Cultural Influences on Neural Substrates of Attentional Control
  46. A science debate for presidential candidates?
  47. Liberals are smarter than conservatives...?
  48. Alarms and Anxiety in 2008 - guaranteed
  49. Nature versus Nurture in Ventral Visual Cortex
  50. Experimental Philosophy - moving out of the armchair?
  51. Accelerated Human Evolution in past 40,000 years.

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