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- May 12, 2011
- 12:30 PM
- 1,160 views
Drugging and Driving: Benzos, opioids and antidepressants and increased risk of driving accidents
A meta study looks at prescription drugs that lead to higher risk for driving accidents... Read more »
Dassanayake T, Michie P, Carter G, & Jones A. (2011) Effects of benzodiazepines, antidepressants and opioids on driving: a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological and experimental evidence. Drug safety : an international journal of medical toxicology and drug experience, 34(2), 125-56. PMID: 21247221
- May 7, 2011
- 12:00 PM
- 1,008 views
Social cognitive deficits in autism spectrum disorder
an fMRI study looks at the neural correlates of social orienting in individuals with autism spectrum disorder... Read more »
Greene DJ, Colich N, Iacoboni M, Zaidel E, Bookheimer SY, & Dapretto M. (2011) Atypical neural networks for social orienting in autism spectrum disorders. NeuroImage, 56(1), 354-62. PMID: 21334443
- May 2, 2011
- 05:45 PM
- 927 views
Mortality among users of marijuana, cocaine, amphetamine, ecstasy and opioids
While Illicit drugs have long been linked to higher mortality rates, the data is wildly variable. In a paper recently published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Danish researchers attempted to establish standard mortality ratios for the drugs cannabis, cocaine, amphetamine, MDMA (ecstasy) and opioids (e.g. heroin)*, while taken into consideration the effects of [...]... Read more »
Arendt M, Munk-Jørgensen P, Sher L, & Jensen SO. (2011) Mortality among individuals with cannabis, cocaine, amphetamine, MDMA, and opioid use disorders: a nationwide follow-up study of Danish substance users in treatment. Drug and alcohol dependence, 114(2-3), 134-9. PMID: 20971585
- April 25, 2011
- 10:25 PM
- 1,433 views
Unconscious priming studies (for adults only)
The last few years have seen a calvacade of studies demonstrating that unexpected elements in the environment can prime attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that are out of conscious awareness....... Read more »
Anderson ML. (2010) Neural reuse: a fundamental organizational principle of the brain. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 33(4), 245. PMID: 20964882
Tybur JM, Bryan AD, Magnan RE, & Hooper AE. (2011) Smells like safe sex: olfactory pathogen primes increase intentions to use condoms. Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS, 22(4), 478-80. PMID: 21350181
Ackerman, J., Nocera, C., & Bargh, J. (2010) Incidental Haptic Sensations Influence Social Judgments and Decisions. Science, 328(5986), 1712-1715. DOI: 10.1126/science.1189993
Li Y, Johnson EJ, & Zaval L. (2011) Local warming: daily temperature change influences belief in global warming. Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS, 22(4), 454-9. PMID: 21372325
- April 21, 2011
- 08:41 PM
- 1,534 views
The case of the man who couldn’t find the beat
The ability to dance to music comes naturally to most members of the human species, and even exists in some species of bird, most famously a cockatoo and YouTube celebrity named Snowball. But it doesn’t come naturally to everyone. Researchers from McGill University and the University of Montreal (Phillips-Silver, 2011) have recently published a case [...]... Read more »
Phillips-Silver J, Toiviainen P, Gosselin N, Piché O, Nozaradan S, Palmer C, & Peretz I. (2011) Born to dance but beat deaf: A new form of congenital amusia. Neuropsychologia, 49(5), 961-9. PMID: 21316375
Brown, S. (2005) The Neural Basis of Human Dance. Cerebral Cortex, 16(8), 1157-1167. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj057
- April 18, 2011
- 07:21 AM
- 984 views
Smoking makes impulsive teen rats even more impulsive
It’s one of the truisms of human life that teenagers often do silly, stupid and/or dangerous things. We certainly don’t need science to tell us that. One reason this seems to be the case is that, on average, teens have trouble optimally weighing risk vs. reward. I’m not excluding myself from this characterization. In fact, [...]... Read more »
Counotte DS, Goriounova NA, Li KW, Loos M, van der Schors RC, Schetters D, Schoffelmeer AN, Smit AB, Mansvelder HD, Pattij T.... (2011) Lasting synaptic changes underlie attention deficits caused by nicotine exposure during adolescence. Nature neuroscience, 14(4), 417-9. PMID: 21336271
- April 15, 2011
- 09:14 AM
- 1,509 views
Regard thyself and put down the smoke stick
As many a former smoker will probably attest, quitting cigarettes ranks high in the hard-to-kick category. I made several unsuccessful attempts before finally kicking the habit after a 10 year pack-a-day run. Ultimately what worked for me was to go cold turkey, but there were perhaps other alternatives which I might have tried. In a [...]... Read more »
Chua HF, Ho SS, Jasinska AJ, Polk TA, Welsh RC, Liberzon I, & Strecher VJ. (2011) Self-related neural response to tailored smoking-cessation messages predicts quitting. Nature neuroscience, 14(4), 426-7. PMID: 21358641
Jenkins AC, & Mitchell JP. (2010) Medial prefrontal cortex subserves diverse forms of self-reflection. Social neuroscience, 1-8. PMID: 20711940
Northoff, G. (2005) Emotional-cognitive integration, the self, and cortical midline structures. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(02). DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X05400047
Gillihan, S., & Farah, M. (2005) Is Self Special? A Critical Review of Evidence From Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. Psychological Bulletin, 131(1), 76-97. DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.131.1.76
SCHNEIDER, F., BERMPOHL, F., HEINZEL, A., ROTTE, M., WALTER, M., TEMPELMANN, C., WIEBKING, C., DOBROWOLNY, H., HEINZE, H., & NORTHOFF, G. (2008) The resting brain and our self: Self-relatedness modulates resting state neural activity in cortical midline structures. Neuroscience, 157(1), 120-131. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.08.014
UDDIN, L., IACOBONI, M., LANGE, C., & KEENAN, J. (2007) The self and social cognition: the role of cortical midline structures and mirror neurons. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11(4), 153-157. DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2007.01.001
- April 13, 2011
- 01:12 AM
- 1,474 views
Mirror Neurons and Mentalizing
Perhaps few findings in the cognitive sciences have received more press in recent years than the discovery by Rizolatti and colleagues in macque monkeys of mirror neurons; that is, neurons that preferentially activate both when a monkey performs some action and when observing someone else perform the same action. There is evidence that these neurons [...]... Read more »
Spunt, R., Satpute, A., & Lieberman, M. (2011) Identifying the What, Why, and How of an Observed Action: An fMRI Study of Mentalizing and Mechanizing during Action Observation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(1), 63-74. DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21446
Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2010) Social Neuroscience: Mirror Neurons Recorded in Humans. Current Biology, 20(8). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.03.013
Van Overwalle F, & Baetens K. (2009) Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: a meta-analysis. NeuroImage, 48(3), 564-84. PMID: 19524046
- April 10, 2011
- 08:44 PM
- 1,244 views
Revisiting a classic finding: the fallacy of the hot hand
(*In honor of the upcoming NBA playoffs, a brief post on, for my money, the big paradox of professional sports: the myth of the hot hand.) Despite a long and fruitful career full of notable findings, Cornell psychologist Thomas Gilovich is perhaps most well known for a study he conducted with psychologists Amos Tversky and [...]... Read more »
GILOVICH, T. (1985) The hot hand in basketball: On the misperception of random sequences*1. Cognitive Psychology, 17(3), 295-314. DOI: 10.1016/0010-0285(85)90010-6
ADAMS, R. (1992) THE "HOT HAND" REVISITED: SUCCESSFUL BASKETBALL SHOOTING AS A FUNCTION OF INTERSHOT INTERVAL. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 74(3), 934. DOI: 10.2466/PMS.74.3.934-934
- April 8, 2011
- 02:45 PM
- 1,314 views
Disorder increases Stereotyping and Discrimination
A slew of studies over the past few years have looked at how some seemingly innocuous contextual and environmental factors can influence cognitive and behavioral processes. In a study just published in Science, researchers from the Netherlands showed that disordered contexts promote stereotyping and discrimination. The premise of the study was derived from previous work [...]... Read more »
Diederik A. Stapel1 and Siegwart Lindenberg. (2011) Coping with Chaos: How Disordered Contexts Promote Stereotyping and Discrimination. Science, 332(6026), 251-253. info:/DOI: 10.1126
Inbar, Y., Pizarro, D., Knobe, J., & Bloom, P. (2009) Disgust sensitivity predicts intuitive disapproval of gays. Emotion, 9(3), 435-439. DOI: 10.1037/a0015960
- May 23, 2010
- 12:00 PM
- 916 views
The Rational Vulcan
Discusses research looking at the neural basis for moral decision making. ... Read more »
Greene, J., Nystrom, L., Engell, A., Darley, J., & Cohen, J. (2004) The Neural Bases of Cognitive Conflict and Control in Moral Judgment. Neuron, 44(2), 389-400. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2004.09.027
Moretto, G., Làdavas, E., Mattioli, F., & di Pellegrino, G. (2010) A Psychophysiological Investigation of Moral Judgment after Ventromedial Prefrontal Damage. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(8), 1888-1899. DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21367
- December 31, 1969
- 07:33 PM
- 981 views
Soap, Sex and the Dirty Liberal
Do you find Rush Limbaugh more palatable after vs. before taking a bath? Might you be more inclined to linger on the Bill O’Reilly Show while channel flipping in a recently-mopped and cleaned room compared to a dirty and disheveled one? Perhaps you just might. At least, that’s what recent research from Cornell’s Erik Helzer [...]... Read more »
Helzer EG, & Pizarro DA. (2011) Dirty Liberals!: Reminders of Physical Cleanliness Influence Moral and Political Attitudes. Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS. PMID: 21421934
- November 30, 1999
- 12:00 AM
- 1,092 views
The neural correlates of romantic love
Examining a recent study that attempts to answer whether intense, romantic love of the kind commonly associated with young couples exists for long-term married couples as well.... ... Read more »
Acevedo BP, Aron A, Fisher HE, & Brown LL. (2011) Neural correlates of long-term intense romantic love. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience. PMID: 21208991
DEGRECK, M., ROTTE, M., PAUS, R., MORITZ, D., THIEMANN, R., PROESCH, U., BRUER, U., MOERTH, S., TEMPELMANN, C., & BOGERTS, B. (2008) Is our self based on reward? Self-relatedness recruits neural activity in the reward system. NeuroImage, 39(4), 2066-2075. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.11.006
Alter, A., & Oppenheimer, D. (2008) Easy on the mind, easy on the wallet: The roles of familiarity and processing fluency in valuation judgments. Psychonomic Bulletin , 15(5), 985-990. DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.5.985
Peskin, M., & Newell, F. (2004) Familiarity breeds attraction: Effects of exposure on the attractiveness of typical and distinctive faces. Perception, 33(2), 147-157. DOI: 10.1068/p5028
Reber, R., Schwarz, N., & Winkielman, P. (2004) Processing Fluency and Aesthetic Pleasure: Is Beauty in the Perceiver's Processing Experience?. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8(4), 364-382. DOI: 10.1207/s15327957pspr0804_3
- November 30, 1999
- 12:00 AM
- 883 views
Why caffeine jacks you up
Recapping a cool study that locates where the receptors underlying the arousing effects of caffeine live in the brain....... Read more »
Lazarus M, Shen HY, Cherasse Y, Qu WM, Huang ZL, Bass CE, Winsky-Sommerer R, Semba K, Fredholm BB, Boison D.... (2011) Arousal Effect of Caffeine Depends on Adenosine A2A Receptors in the Shell of the Nucleus Accumbens. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 31(27), 10067-10075. PMID: 21734299
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