In recent years cognitive scientist Marc Hauser has gathered evidence that suggests we're born with a moral instinct. This moral intuition has been likened to the universal grammar that Chomsky famously suggested underlies our linguistic abilities - certain principles are set in stone, whilst the precise parameters can be set by culture. Thousands of people from multiple countries and different r
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Path Integration in Humans
Posted by admin 7 hours ago (http://thoughtfulanimal.wordpress.com)
I know you’ve all been waiting for it. We’ve talked about putting ants on stilts, kidnapping baby gerbils, and hijacking a truck full of geese. All in the name of science. Ants and gerbils taught us about the limitations of the path integration system, but also how amazingly cool it is. The geese suggested that [...]... Landau, B., Spelke, E., & Gleitman, H. (1984) Spatial kno
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Trust in the Face(width)
Posted by admin 1 day 1 hour 42 minutes ago (http://twenty2five.blogspot.com)
It seems odd, but stable facial cues, such as the width-height ratio of a man's face, may be decent predictors of trustworthiness. Less strange is that we apparently use face-width when intuitively judging a strangers' trustworthiness...... Stirrat, M., & Perrett, D. (2010) Valid Facial Cues to Cooperation and Trust: Male Facial Width and Trustworthiness. Psychological Science,
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Personality and Retirement
Posted by admin 1 day 17 hours ago (http://www.shockmd.com)
Who retires gracefully, who adjusts to retirement easily and who doesn’t. Which personality traits play a part in successful retirement?The five factor model of personality or the Big Five can be used to see how personality traits are linked to how people adjust to retirement. It has been done in the past for other life [...]No related posts.Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Relat
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Brain Change Patterns in Developing Children
Posted by admin 1 day 21 hours ago (http://feedproxy.google.com)
Accessibility Level: Intermediate-AdvancedWhat changes in the brain as children mature? Are there patterns in the way the changes occur? Do some regions mature more quickly than others?Last time, we talked about a paper by Schlaggar et al that examined brain differences between children and adults during a word generation task. A study published in Cerebral Cortex by Brown and colleagues...
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Can We Rely on fMRI?
Posted by admin 2 hours 42 minutes ago (http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com)
Craig Bennett (of Prefrontal.org) and Michael Miller, of dead fish brain scan fame, have a new paper out: How reliable are the results from functional magnetic resonance imaging?Tal over at the [citation needed] blog has an excellent in-depth discussion of the paper, and Mind Hacks has a good summary, but here's my take on what it all means in practical terms.Suppose you scan someone's brain whil
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Back to blightly
Posted by admin 4 hours ago (http://www.mindhacks.com)
Apologies if updates are a little irregular, as I'm currently on my way back to the UK for a three week visit. This is largely because I've been asked to speak to the 'All-Party Parliamentary Group on Scientific Research in Learning and Education' about the evidence for whether computer games are damaging kids' brains. I kid you not. I shall also use the opportunity to catch up with the fantastic
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Repeated anesthesia can affect children's ability to learn
Posted by admin 1 day 20 hours ago (http://www.sciencedaily.com)
There is a link between repeated anesthesia in children and memory impairment, though physical activity can help to form new cells that improve memory, reveals new research.
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