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2013-06-19 02:57:51 (7 comments, 4 reshares, 9 +1s)

Do you know any netmongers? 

2013-06-18 22:20:04 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

Some things never change - of experimentalists and modelers. 

2013-06-18 02:30:01 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Regression to the mean? 

2013-06-17 05:35:09 (16 comments, 27 reshares, 32 +1s)

Major, if true. 

2013-06-16 00:26:11 (12 comments, 2 reshares, 14 +1s)

I've been saying this for 20 years. 

2013-06-13 03:14:28 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

More bad news for SSRIs... 
"Chronic Antidepressant Treatment Impairs the Acquisition of Fear Extinction"

2013-06-10 14:49:34 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

The answer is "no". 

2013-06-08 14:51:06 (8 comments, 5 reshares, 13 +1s)

The answer is "no". 

2013-06-07 16:15:27 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

If you have a PhD (or started, but quit a program) and care about the @matingmind#matinggate controversy about body weight and willpower, you can contribute here. 

2013-06-07 00:13:05 (11 comments, 5 reshares, 5 +1s)

If you have a PhD (or started, but quit a program) and care about the @matingmind#matinggate controversy about body weight and willpower, you can contribute here. 

2013-06-06 14:28:15 (2 comments, 6 reshares, 1 +1s)

If you have a PhD (or started, but quit a program) and care about the @matingmind#matinggate controversy about body weight and willpower, you can contribute here. 

2013-06-05 23:33:23 (21 comments, 3 reshares, 16 +1s)

People are built to walk long and run short distances.

2013-06-02 02:27:10 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

A happy result in pioneering research. More favorable position in most big-5 dimensions. Inconsistent with the psychopathology view.

2013-05-25 04:38:50 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 14 +1s)

Once more, into the breach. 

2013-05-24 17:10:05 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Social vs. scientific connections. More local than global? 

2013-05-24 16:50:23 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

Depression, Aging, Autism, Intelligence... Where is this effect going next? 

2013-05-24 03:05:38 (21 comments, 4 reshares, 10 +1s)

The world is almost uninhabited, relatively speaking. Contrary to popular belief.

2013-05-21 23:10:16 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 12 +1s)

I still would have preferred virtue, but I guess this will do - for now. 
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/your-brain-is-not-a-video-camera

2013-05-16 01:37:09 (5 comments, 8 reshares, 21 +1s)

Grow a prefrontal forest to beat depression. Updated post. 

2013-05-16 00:54:03 (17 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Just logged in to G+. What happened now?

2013-05-15 02:06:39 (6 comments, 6 reshares, 19 +1s)

What do you call a complete lack of surprise? 

2013-05-13 15:28:58 (16 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)

The current situation is unacceptable, but there is hope on the horizon.

2013-05-04 16:00:53 (10 comments, 12 reshares, 15 +1s)

Psychiatry, meet 21st century?

2013-05-02 02:39:48 (1 comments, 7 reshares, 4 +1s)

Righteous. The future of the "paper"? Gallant lab, not surprisingly. http://gallantlab.org/brainviewer/cukuretal2013/

2013-04-29 17:20:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

"In education, as elsewhere, the broad primrose path leads to a nasty place."

From the aims of education. Every educator ought to have read this.

2013-04-27 05:18:10 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Prediction:  Fields where data consist of a bunch of integers or images (i.e. things that are simple to manipulate) are most prone to this kind of abuse. 

2013-04-21 04:34:37 (7 comments, 4 reshares, 17 +1s)

A fundamental problem at the heart of science - few scientists are properly trained in these arts. 

2013-04-19 18:59:19 (21 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Good luck with that...

Is that what "ultra-liberal" means these days? 

2013-04-18 13:11:07 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Thanks for the kind birthday wishes!

2013-04-17 14:47:22 (7 comments, 7 reshares, 21 +1s)

Progress. 

2013-04-12 03:33:18 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

There is no point in running underpowered studies. Just adds noise. 
http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nrn3475.html

2013-04-06 01:16:43 (10 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)

Math is still beautiful, if not necessarily fun. Now with exponents and trig functions. 

2013-03-30 05:29:07 (15 comments, 3 reshares, 16 +1s)

Way to preempt almost all of cognitive psychology by almost 2000 years. 

2013-03-29 02:19:07 (13 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

Like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_square_puzzle?

h/t +zack westrick 

2013-03-26 21:27:22 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 12 +1s)

Incredible story. Would make for a good movie. Has the benefit of being true. 

2013-03-25 23:27:22 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

At first glace, math might not be fun, but it sure is beautiful. Now with Kaiser window. 

2013-03-16 04:26:14 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Math is beautiful

It really is. But see for yourself. 

2013-03-10 17:29:04 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Music can elicit a visual motion aftereffect. 
Now with supplemental figures. 

2013-03-10 04:13:03 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Resurrecting the hot hand?
+Tom Gilovich most likely has the data for the autocorrelation analysis. 
cc +Christopher Chabris, +Daniel Simons 

2013-03-08 19:56:00 (0 comments, 6 reshares, 16 +1s)

There is nothing light about light.
Consistency of sleep/wake cycle matters. Here is why. 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23151476

2013-03-08 03:59:24 (88 comments, 1 reshares, 31 +1s)

Suggestion: Instead of rearranging the deckchairs by gimmicks like changing the cover photo, G+ could do something unique and use sophisticated algorithms to deliver users with the content that is most relevant to them. As opposed to say - everything just in chronological order (as on Twitter) or with crappy/creepy algorithms (Facebook). In the current form, there are no negative shares or -1s. So idiocy spreads without any controls (e.g. fake Einstein quotes galore). Overwhelming the network with noise.
In the brain, we would call that a seizure. 
Wasting a golden opportunity to do something unique with this network. 
cc +Vic Gundotra +Bradley Horowitz +Jennifer Olston  

2013-03-08 01:02:13 (37 comments, 0 reshares, 26 +1s)

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fake Einstein quotes
-Einstein

(Although this one seems to be genuine). 

2013-03-07 02:15:38 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

There is nothing light about light.
Paper showing pretty conclusively how important a consistent light/dark cycle is. On mood, learning, etc. 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23151476

2013-03-07 02:14:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

There is nothing light about light.
Paper showing pretty conclusively how important a consistent light/dark cycle is. On mood, learning, etc. 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23151476

2013-03-07 00:24:08 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Here is how Florus describes the aftermath of the battle in the Teutoburg forest: 
"Never was there slaughter more cruel than took place there in the marshes and woods, never were more intolerable insults inflicted by barbarians, especially those directed against the lawyers. They put out the eyes of some of them and cut off the hands of others; they sewed up the mouth of one of them after first cutting out his tongue, which one of the barbarians held in his hand, exclaiming "At last, you viper, you have ceased to hiss."
"
I had no idea.

2013-03-05 20:43:01 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

Can music elicit a visual motion aftereffect?

Briefly, if you look at a large moving scene for a while, you will experience things moving in the opposite direction afterwards. This "motion aftereffect" was already known to Aristotle, presumably from the visual inspection of waterfalls. It was rediscovered by Purkinje in the 19th century, on the occasion of witnessing a cavalry parade. Now, we were able to show that listening to ascending or descending musical scales produces a visual aftereffect in the expected (opposite) direction. 
I anticipate to get a lot of grief for this, but I consider the study to be executed in a valid way and it contributes to the often neglected study of multimodal effects. Let alone multimodal higher-order effects.

2013-03-05 02:16:25 (22 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Learned latin at age 2, authored a history of Denmark at 3, died of celiac at 4. So much for the profoundly gifted. cc +Rebecca McMillan +Scott Barry Kaufman 
#ingeniumpraecox.

2013-02-27 20:48:08 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Does the brain deserve some respect?

2013-02-26 01:59:51 (11 comments, 3 reshares, 14 +1s)

"Current therapies for clinical depression (most based upon monoamine neurotransmitters) are beneficial for only one in ten patients."
 - New York Academy of Sciences
NMDA is where its at. Antagonists, specifically: http://www.nyas.org/events/Detail.aspx?cid=2f17c3a3-5270-4e64-97aa-5819321f0930
Great paper on the topic: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6103/68.full.pdf
 "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

Quote not mine, but true. Attributed to Einstein, but everything is, over time. This has been modeled. He is the supreme quote magnet.

2013-02-13 23:54:19 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 30 +1s)

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
English Proverb