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  • How sleep shapes what we remember and forget.

    Updated: 2023-01-30 06:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Monday , January 30, 2023 How sleep shapes what we remember and forget . I have found monitoring the quality of my sleep to be a fascinating and useful activity . I use both the Oura ring and Apple watch to monitor body temperature , body movement , heart rate , and heart rate variability , and then compare their different but broadly similar algorithmic estimates of deep sleep , REM sleep , non-REM sleep , and wake periods . I'm on the lookout for articles on sleep during my scans of journals' tables of contents , and have come upon this review by Sakai of what is happening in our sleep to be concise and useful . Below is a more general overview

  • MindBlog's 2010 recital and lecture in Istanbul

    Updated: 2023-01-27 06:00:00
    I've been meandering back over old MindBlog posts and found an orphaned .mov file that I've reposted to my YouTube channel, quite a bit of nostalgia. The guy turning my pages was my handler and guide during my 10 day visit to Istanbul. He is now a Turkish Airlines pilot. nbsp;

  • The Evolution of Peace

    Updated: 2023-01-25 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Wednesday , January 25, 2023 The Evolution of Peace I pass on the abstract of an article by Luke Glowacki that has been submitted to the network of Behavioral and Brain Science reviewers who might offer commentary on its arguments . Motivated readers can obtain a copy of the article from me . Abstract : While some species have affiliative and even cooperative interactions between individuals of different social groups , humans are alone in having durable , positive-sum , interdependent relationships across unrelated social groups . Our capacity to have harmonious relationships that cross group boundaries is an important aspect of our species'

  • Our different styles of thinking.

    Updated: 2023-01-23 06:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Monday , January 23, 2023 Our different styles of thinking . An interesting recent article by Joshua Rothman the ideas editor of newyorker.com , notes several recent books that describe different styles of thinking . A few clips : In Visual Thinking : The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures , Patterns , and Abstractions , 8221 Temple Grandin identifies a continuum of thought styles that’s roughly divisible into three sections . On one end are verbal thinkers , who often solve problems by talking about them in their heads or , more generally , by proceeding in the linear , representational fashion typical of language . Estimating the cost

  • A quick MindBlog riff on what a self is....

    Updated: 2023-01-20 06:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Friday , January 20, 2023 A quick MindBlog riff on what a self is . Spilling out what I was thinking at breakfast this morning , deciding to fire it off , probably incomprehensible to most readers , perhaps to attempt to clarify later or delete My self model or I' stands amongst my models of others , and during my early postnatal period I probably formed those other models prior to my own , a yet unknown self discovering and learning to predict the behavior of others to gain feeding and care , and only then composing my own self from parts of them . This is consonant with Graziano's take on consciousness as a perceptual construct Consciousness and

  • Mindful attention enhances brain network control and uncouples past from the present

    Updated: 2023-01-18 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Wednesday , January 18, 2023 Mindful attention enhances brain network control and uncouples past from the present Zhou et al . open source do an interesting experiment on mindfulness and brain network control : Significance Practicing mindfulness helps individuals regulate attention , thoughts , feelings , and behavior . In recognizing these benefits , various schools , workplaces , and clinics are increasingly teaching mindfulness . How does mindful attention change brain function to support self-regulation Addressing this question could inform how we teach mindfulness and whom we expect to benefit . We modeled the defining components of mindful

  • COVID-19 and brain aging

    Updated: 2023-01-16 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Monday , January 16, 2023 COVID-19 and brain aging Over the Christmas and New Year's holidays I was hit first by a mild Covid infection that lasted only a few days I've had all 5 vaccinations and immediately took Paxlovid on testing positive and then five days later had a slightly longer Paxlovid-rebound infection . A transient brain fog seems to have cleared by now . This personal experience makes me especially attentive to articles like Welberg's note on Covid-19 and brain aging which suggests that brain changes associated with Covid infection are most likely due to neuroinflammation resulting from the infection , not from the virus itself . Here

  • Materialism meets transcendence

    Updated: 2023-01-13 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Friday , January 13, 2023 Materialism meets transcendence I want to pass on the URL to a PBS series by Alan Lightman that I plan to start watching as soon as I can , based on the following description and review in Science Magazine In part 1, The Stars The Osprey , 8221 Lightman undergoes functional magnetic resonance imaging and interviews neuroscientist Robert Desimone about how much neuroimaging can tell us about Lightman’s transcendental experience . He ultimately finds this approach unsatisfying and introduces viewers to the debate between mechanists , who believe that the laws of physics , chemistry , and biology are sufficient to explain life

  • Awe as a Pathway to Mental and Physical Health

    Updated: 2023-01-11 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Wednesday , January 11, 2023 Awe as a Pathway to Mental and Physical Health Reading this open source review from Maria Monroy and Dacher Keltner leaves me feeling substantially more mellow Their abstract , followed by a quote from Emerson , and then a summary graphic . How do experiences in nature or in spiritual contemplation or in being moved by music or with psychedelics promote mental and physical health Our proposal in this article is awe . To make this argument , we first review recent advances in the scientific study of awe , an emotion often considered ineffable and beyond measurement . Awe engages five processes—shifts in neurophysiology ,

  • AI After Death: interactions with AI representations of the deceased

    Updated: 2023-01-09 06:00:00
    : : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Monday , January 09, 2023 AI After Death : interactions with AI representations of the deceased I want to pass on to MindBlog readers the following excellent notes that Terry Allard made to guide a discussion at the Nov . 29, 2022 session of the Chaos Complex Systems Discussion group at the Univ . of Wisconsin . nbsp Chaos Complex Systems Discussion AI After Death : interactions with AI representations of the deceased November 29, 2022 Source material : Washington Post Nov 12, 2022, by Caren Chesler : AI’s New Frontier https : www.washingtonpost.com health 2022 11 12 artificial-intelligence-grief See also https : www.media.mit.edu projects

  • Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty

    Updated: 2023-01-06 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Friday , January 06, 2023 Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty Wow , in an article with title of this post Breznau et al . show that different research teams presented independently with the same data and social science hypothesis reach opposing conclusions about what the data show . Significance Will different researchers converge on similar findings when analyzing the same data Seventy-three independent research teams used identical cross-country survey data to test a prominent social science hypothesis : that more immigration will reduce public support for government provision of

  • A deep-learning model of prescient ideas demonstrates that they emerge from the periphery

    Updated: 2023-01-04 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Wednesday , January 04, 2023 A deep-learning model of prescient ideas demonstrates that they emerge from the periphery The abstract of a fascinating open source article from Vicinanza et al . Where do prescient ideas—those that initially challenge conventional assumptions but later achieve widespread acceptance—come from Although their outcomes in the form of technical innovation are readily observed , the underlying ideas that eventually change the world are often obscured . Here we develop a novel method that uses deep learning to unearth the markers of prescient ideas from the language used by individuals and groups . Our language-based measure

  • The pitfalls of defining neural correlates of brain functions

    Updated: 2022-12-30 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Friday , December 30, 2022 The pitfalls of defining neural correlates of brain functions Rust and Le Doux do a useful brief opinion piece from which I pass on two clips , and recommend you read the whole open source text . neuroscientists should avoid conflating circuits that control behavior with mental states , especially in the absence of evidence that the two map onto one another . These equivalencies need to be very carefully investigated rather than presumed . Considerable evidence suggests that circuits involving the amygdala control behavioral and physiological responses to threats . In animal research labs , threats are often recapitulated

  • Wormholes in quanturm computers

    Updated: 2022-12-28 06:00:00
    I pass on this link to a YouTube video sent out by the Chaos and Complex Systems Discussion group at the University of Wisconsin. Totally fun to watch, but I don't think any of us understand it.

  • Rigorous study does not find that exercise and mindfulness training improve cognitive function in older adults.

    Updated: 2022-12-26 06:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Monday , December 26, 2022 Rigorous study does not find that exercise and mindfulness training improve cognitive function in older adults . Wow , here is a study by Lenze et . al not confirming the results of numerous other less rigorous studies reported in MindBlog posts that is unable to demonstrate that the use of mindfulness training , exercise , or a combination of both can significantly improving cognitive function in older adults with subjective cognitive concerns . In their randomized clinical trial that included 585 participants , mindfulness training , exercise , or both did not result in significant differences in improvement in

  • A smart phone intervention that enhances memory in older adults.

    Updated: 2022-12-23 06:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Friday , December 23, 2022 A smart phone intervention that enhances memory in older adults . Martin et al . nbsp offer an open source article that describes a smartphone intervention that enhances real-world memory and promotes differentiation of hippocampal activity in older adults . nbsp I have downloaded the HippoCamera smartphone App described in the text from the Apple App Store , and found a research passcode is required , for which the following clip of text from the article is relevant : As of the time of writing , this is a research-dedicated application that requires an access code that can be obtained from a corresponding author .

  • Neurocomputational evidence that conflicting prosocial motives guide distributive justice

    Updated: 2022-12-21 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Wednesday , December 21, 2022 Neurocomputational evidence that conflicting prosocial motives guide distributive justice A fascinating perspective and analysis from Hu et . al who show that three prosocial motives fairness , harm aversion , and rank reversal aversion are encoded by separate neural systems , compete for representation in various brain areas processing equality and harm signals , and are integrated in the striatum , which functions as a crucial hub for translating the motives to behavior see also the commentary by Armstrong and McKee Significance Resource allocation in human societies usually triggers discussions about fairness , but

  • The dawn of mediocre computing.

    Updated: 2022-12-16 06:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Friday , December 16, 2022 The dawn of mediocre computing . This post is a followup on MindBlog's 12 07 22 post on OpenAI's ChatGPT essay generating system . It was mentioned in Venkatesh Rao's essay The Dawn of Mediocre Computing that my techie son , Jonathan Bownds,sent to me . After pasting in the first two paragraphs of Rao's article , I want to pass on some essential clips that Jon extracted from Rao's overly long text , the sort of logorrheic writing that is responsible for the TLDR too long didn't read acronym . nbsp Well , we all knew it was coming . Computers already easily overwhelm the best humans at chess and Go . Now they have done

  • Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than help an opposing group

    Updated: 2022-12-14 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Wednesday , December 14, 2022 Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than help an opposing group From Gershon and Fridman Significance Understanding the principles guiding decisions in intergroup conflicts is essential to recognizing the psychological barriers to compromise and cooperation . We introduce a novel paradigm for studying group decision-making , demonstrating that individuals are so averse to supporting opposing groups that they prefer equivalent or greater harm to their own group instead . While previous models of group decision-making claim that group members are driven by a desire to benefit their in-group in-group love”

  • Autism attenuates the perception of the mind-body divide

    Updated: 2022-12-12 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Monday , December 12, 2022 Autism attenuates the perception of the mind-body divide A fascinating piece of work from Berent et . al Significance Across cultures , people consider the mind as ethereal , distinct from the body . But whether Dualism arises only from culture nurture or also spontaneously from human nature is unknown . To address this question , here , we turn to autism spectrum disorder ASD a congenital disorder that compromises intuitive reasoning about the minds of others theory of mind , ToM If ToM promotes Dualist reasoning , then Dualist reasoning ought to be attenuated in ASD . Our results show that , compared to controls , people

  • How modern human brains are different from those of other hominids and chimps.

    Updated: 2022-12-09 06:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Friday , December 09, 2022 How modern human brains are different from those of other hominids and chimps . Work pointed to in the previous post continues to add to the list of behaviors once presumed to be unique to humans that have now been found in other animals morality , having a self’ , etc . Previous MindBlog posts list , von Economo neurons etc . do search . have noted emerging evidence for brain features unique to or much more pronounced in humans than other primates . Now Pinson et . al have found that a single amino acid change in the transketolase-like 1 TKTL1 protein on production of basal radial glia , the workhorses that generate

  • OpenAI’s ChatGPT answers some questions from MindBlog

    Updated: 2022-12-07 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Wednesday , December 07, 2022 OpenAI’s ChatGPT answers some questions from MindBlog Given a recent posting in which I played with the DALL-E 2 A.I . system that generates images when you tell it what you want to see , I was motivated by a Venkatesh Rao essay The Dawn of Mediocre Computing to try out an essay generating system OpenAI's ChatGPT released as a research beta several days ago . After puttering through a number of references and joining the OpenAI Discord Server , I fundamentally don't get it and have nothing original to pass on in this post , but I thought some MindBlog readers might enjoy spending some time in the rabbit hole I am just

  • A collection of animal stories

    Updated: 2022-12-05 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Monday , December 05, 2022 A collection of animal stories I've accumulated several items on animal behaviors in my list of potential post subjects , and have decided to simply pass them on to allow animal curious MindBlog readers to have a look . nbsp Farad Manjoo notes that ants , not humans , own the world . nbsp Not only land animals like humans toss objects at irritating neighbors , octopuses who gather at feeding sites with abundant food and competition for it sometimes throw silt at each . other Crows understand the concept of recursion as well as children , and better than macaque monkeys . nbsp Wild Chimpanzees display declarative

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