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Brain & Behavior
November 20, 2009
Greg Laden's Blog
Artificial Intelligence on Collective Imagination ... There is nothing in the term "Artificial Intelligence" that implies that "intelligence" be human, but the implication is clear that such a thing as "intelligence" exists and that we have some clue as to what it is. But it might not, and we don't.
The Frontal Cortex
The Reading Brain I've got a review of Stanislas Dehaene's new book, Reading in the Brain, over at the Barnes and Noble Review: Right now, your mind is performing an astonishing feat. Photons are bouncing off these black squiggles and lines -- the...
Collective Imagination
And now we turn to the topic of Artificial Intelligence ... There is nothing in the term "Artificial Intelligence" that implies that "intelligence" be human, but the implication is clear that such a thing as "intelligence" exists and that we have some clue as to what it is. But it might not, and we don't.
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Memories can be strengthened while we sleep by providing the right triggers A new study suggests that you can strengthen individual memories by reactivating them as you snooze.
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS this week Circadian KaiC Phosphorylation: A Multi-Layer Network; Evaluation of the Oscillatory Interference Model of Grid Cell Firing through Analysis and Measured Period Variance of Some Biological Oscillators; 10 Reasons to be Tantalized by the B73 Maize Genome; On Theoretical Models of Gene Expression Evolution with Random Genetic Drift and Natural Selection; Combination of Real-Value Smell and Metaphor Expression Aids Yeast Detection; Motor and Linguistic Linking of Space and Time in the Cerebellum; Genome-Wide Scan for Signatures of Human Population Differentiation and Their Relationship with Natural Selection, Functional Pathways and Diseases; A Mechanistic Niche Model for Measuring Species' Distributional Responses to Seasonal Temperature Gradients; and more....
Neurotopia
Friday Weird Science: Oxytocin in your Cavernosa This post brought to you by Ben and Jerry's Dublin Mudslide Ice Cream. Because the Twitter people are like little devils on my shoulder, making me eat the cake... ( So Sci was going to do her final oxytocin post...
November 19, 2009
Neurophilosophy
The cognitive benefits of time-space synaesthesia Researchers from the University of Edinburgh show that some cognitive skills are enhanced in time-space synaesthetes, and suggest that time-space synaesthesia may underly the savant-like abilities of individuals with super memory syndrome
Cognitive Daily
Detecting faces: People use some of the same strategies computers do How does our visual system decide if something is a face? Some automated face-detecting software uses color as one cue that something is a face. For example Apple's iPhoto has no trouble determining that there are two faces in this...
Neurotopia
Oxytocin: The Love Molecule? And now Sci can finally get down to writing the hefty post in the oxytocin series, what she likes to call the effects on the soft stuff. The emotions, memory, trust, that kind of thing. She didn't know if she'd...
November 18, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants I have to say I am myself enjoying doing these introductory posts. I get to Google people, see who they are and what they've been up to lately, discover stuff about friends' past careers I did not know, find them...
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE Breaking the News or Fueling the Epidemic? Temporal Association between News Media Report Volume and Opioid-Related Mortality; Rhesus Monkeys' Valuation of Vocalizations during a Free-Choice Task; The Typical Flight Performance of Blowflies: Measuring the Normal Performance Envelope of Calliphora vicina Using a Novel Corner-Cube Arena; In-Group Conformity Sustains Different Foraging Traditions in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella); The Real maccoyii: Identifying Tuna Sushi with DNA Barcodes - Contrasting Characteristic Attributes and Genetic Distances; Nestedness of Ectoparasite-Vertebrate Host Networks; Mutations in H5N1 Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin that Confer Binding to Human Tracheal Airway Epithelium; Genetic Variation and Recent Positive Selection in Worldwide Human Populations: Evidence from Nearly 1 Million SNPs; Extrapair Paternity and Maternity in the Three-Toed Woodpecker, Picoides tridactylus: Insights from Microsatellite-Based Parentage Analysis; and more....
November 17, 2009
Cognitive Daily
Men often treat their friends better than women do Who's more "sociable," men or women? Common sense says it's women, right? And many research studies back this impression up: Women are more interpersonal, more connected, more interdependent than men. Women are more likely to share intimate information with each...
The Frontal Cortex
Fourth Down Bill Belichick has never been the most popular coach in the NFL, but his Sunday night decision to go for it on 4th and 2 on his own 28 with two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter has even his...
The Frontal Cortex
The Tiger Woods Effect Success is intimidating. When we compete against someone who's supposed to be better than us, we start to get nervous, and then we start to worry, and then we start to make stupid mistakes. That, at least, is the lesson...
Mike the Mad Biologist
What Is the Heritability of Being an A--hole? Granted, being an asshole isn't a very precise trait, but why is this question never asked? Perhaps, with early intervention, Charles Murray might not have become an asshole.
The Corpus Callosum
Telephone Psychotherapy Effective The title of this article is a little bit misleading, although not deliberately so. The study examined the question of whether telephonic CBT - added to pharmacotherapy - was beneficial, in a primary care population. Note that the primary care...
A Blog Around The Clock
AMNH SciCafe: Naughty vs. Nice: The Biological Basis of Greed and Altruism From the American Museum of Natural History: SciCafe presents Naughty vs. Nice: The Biological Basis of Greed and Altruism, featuring biologist Lee Dugatkin, University of Louisville, and AMNH Curator of Invertebrate Zoology Rob DeSalle. Join fellow New Yorkers to discuss...
Neurotopia
Oxytocin: Let's hear it for the boys! Sci will be honest. The migraine continues apace. But the oxytocin, it must be blogged. And the migraine medication, it makes Sci loopy! Given what I'll be blogging today, that might not be a bad thing... (From the Devil's Panties,...
November 16, 2009
The Frontal Cortex
Expertise The WSJ discovers the unreliability of wine critics, citing the fascinating statistical work of Robert Hodgson: In his first study, each year, for four years, Mr. Hodgson served actual panels of California State Fair Wine Competition judges--some 70 judges each...
November 15, 2009
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Why Do Atheists Care About Religion? How does religion impinge upon each American's rights? This video should open your eyes to the ridiculous, backwards and utterly nonsensical laws that control our lives because of someone's religious beliefs.
November 14, 2009
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
300,000 Birds This is a video of a really large flock of 300,000 European Starling, creating a wavelike cloud over Denmark
November 13, 2009
Cognitive Daily
Casual Fridays: What makes a good writer? Some people just seem to be natural writers -- they can write perfect, elegant sentences with a minimum of effort. Some popular fiction novelists crank out 6 or more novels per year. Some bloggers write 10 or more posts per...
The Frontal Cortex
Dopamine and Future Forecasting Ed Yong has a typically excellent post on a new paper that looks at how manipulating dopamine levels in the brain can change our predictions of future pleasure: Tali Sharot from University College London found that if volunteers had more...
Neurophilosophy
Dyslexia and the Cocktail Party effect Researchers from Northwestern University report that auditory brainstem activity is modulated by specific voice characteristics, and that this modulation is impaired in children with developmental dyslexia.
The World's Fair
A bit of insight about transgender and gender dysphoria Alex does a great job here on this topic. This would also, I suspect, take a lot of guts to do which is both inspiring and commendable. (If you want to leave a comment about the talk, please do so...
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