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| Url: | http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/ |
| Author(s): | Pending confirmation. Help us confirm the author. |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | mind, brain, behavior |
| Description: | This blog reports new ideas and work on mind, brain, and behavior - as well as random curious stuff |
| Ratings |  (1 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 5 Followers |
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Ongoing Victim Suffering Increases Prejudice
| Imhoff and Banse empirically test the secondary-anti-Semitism theory, which suggests that every reminder of the German atrocities and the victims' suffering still evokes aversive feelings of guilt...more |
2009-12-04
Universality in distinguishing natural from artificial, and in color naming.
| Interesting observations by Biederman et al.:Many of the phenomena underlying shape recognition can be derived from the greater sensitivity to nonaccidental properties of an image (e.g., whether a ...more |
2009-12-04
Obama, Afganistan, and the emotional brain
| David Eagleman does a nice essay on how Obama's withdrawal timetable decisions relate to the psychology of uncertainty, expectation, and reward. |
2009-12-03
Watch the live dissection of a famous brain.
| See Benedict's Carey's article on Henry Molaison — known during his lifetime only as H.M., to protect his privacy — who lost the ability to form new memories after a brain operation in 1953, and ov...more |
2009-12-03
Buttress self esteem - reduce aggression
| Here is a fascinating study from Thomaes et al. They conducted a randomized field trial in the Netherlands to assess the efficacy of a brief affirmation exercise designed to buttress self-esteem. B...more |
2009-12-03
Hearing with both your skin and your ears
| Gick and Derrick offer a fascinating example of cross modal sensory perception, demonstrating 'aero-tactile' integration in speech perception:...we show that perceivers integrate naturalistic tacti...more |
2009-12-03
How's Your Gaydar?
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From the random samples section of the Nov. 27 issue of Science:Can you guess a woman's sexual orientation just from her face? Surprisingly, your guess would be better than flipping a coin....Psych...more |
2009-12-02
Dietary specialization: man-eating lions
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I thought this fascinating bit of work was a hoot. Two famous man-eating lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya were identified and shot in 1989, and these guys analyzed their diet from studies of the...more |
2009-12-02
Facial plus vocal emotion - watching the brain's enhanced response
| From Hagan et al:An influential neural model of face perception suggests that the posterior superior temporal sulcus (STS) is sensitive to those aspects of faces that produce transient visual chang...more |
2009-12-02
Dieting, compulsive eating, and brain stress.
| An interesting piece from Cottone et al:Dieting to control body weight involves cycles of deprivation from palatable food that can promote compulsive eating. The present study shows that rats withd...more |
2009-12-01
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