Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
The BPS Research Digest covers a study finding that people judged as likeable in the flesh also make good first impressions online.
A short but sweet Jonah Lehrer article on the neuroscience of creativity is published in Seed Magazine.
Dr Petra has more on the recent not very convincing ’emotional intelligence boosts female orgasms’ story that got the media’s knickers in a twist.
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“>designer brains divide humanity? asks New Scientist who seem to like sensationalist headlines about cognitive enhancement.
Furious Seasons asks whether suicidality was covered-up in the landmark STAR*D depression study? A fantastic bit of investigative journalism.
Cruelty and spitefulness are put under the evolutionary spotlight by New Scientist.
Neuronarrative has a good piece on belief in the paranormal and susceptibility to the conjunction fallacy. Interesting in light of Jung’s concept of synchronicity.
Halle Berry neurons, visual recognition and sparse coding are discussed by Discover Magazine.
New Scientist has an almost-there article on how beliefs affect how we experience illness.
How mediation improves attention. PsyBlog continues riffing on it’s attention theme.
Science News reports that school-age lead exposure is most harmful to IQ.
Summertime blues. The Neurocritic covers a study finding that suicide rates in Greenland are highest during the summer.
The New York Times has an excellent piece on ‘high functioning alcoholics‘.
A difference between child and adult brains is a switch from local to distributed organisation, suggests a new study in PLoS Computational Biology.
Dr Shock has a good summary of a recent review article on the neuroscience of exercise.
Smiles in yearbook photos predict marriage success many years later according to a study covered in The Economist.
Neurophilosophy covers a fascinating study on how music affects how we perceive facial expressions.
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