April 2012
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Did Humans Invent Music? →
jtotheizzoe:
Psychologists Gary Marcus & Geoffrey Miller debate the origins of human music and its associated behaviors. Is it a cultural invention, a technology that piggy-backs on language? Or is there a deeper genetic wiring behind our music and its neurological effects?
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“Ancient” seems like a bit of stretch to me. The oldest known musical artifacts are some bone flutes...
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“Previous studies suggest that severe sexual sadism and psychopathy are...”
– From Empathy in sexually sadistic offenders: An experimental comparison with non-sadistic sexual offenders [via]
Yeah? Did a couple of tests there? Self-reporting and interviews? I see. Right, so I was just reading somewhere about how people feel about scientists when they dig in their heels...
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"The understanding of the neural circuitry... →
A recent study found that in the hypothalamus of male mice, about 20% of neurons responsible for aggression overlap with the neurons responsible for mating (due to location) linking the circuitry for sex and violence. With some foggy implications,
Functional imaging and other emerging new technologies could be used to see whether such neuron abnormalities exist in rapists, they contended.
Or...
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“Yet when Psychiatric News asked Anderson whether anyone is using functional...”
– Um… yeah. Hi. Is this blog on? [via Researchers Find Link Between Aggression, Sex in Male Mice]
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Neuroscience, PTSD and Sentencing Mitigation →
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Like other mental disorders, PTSD has been advanced in criminal law to support sentencing mitigation. Unlike other disorders, however, PTSD traces back to an event that is considered the cause of the disorder, known as the stressor. Stressors can range from car accidents to gang violence to the commission of a crime. This article examines whether lawmakers should consider the...
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Ex-Christian school teacher, 75, gets probation in...
LaDuke had been at Schaumburg Christian for 26 years before a student told administrators in November that the teacher had lowered his trousers and masturbated behind his lectern as 13 high school students worked on math problems.
His attorney states LaDuke suffers from dementia, a degenerative neurological condition that has lead to frontal lobe syndrome and that he will be persueing an...
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Surviving Progress →
garymarcus:
A film “about nothing less than history of the modern world and the fate of civilization”, with a cameo by Guitar Zero author Gary Marcus, opens tomorrow in NYC
V.I.Reblog. Trailer here.
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“The possibility of using neuroimaging to detect deception in legal settings has...”
– The flaws are real, but so what? We still treat eyewitness testimony and confessions like slam dunk evidence too. There’s a easy street career to be made from abusing science for personal gain. Get out of that wallet’s way.
Seriously.
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“I argue that neuroscience poses no such radical threat now and in the immediate...”
– One of my top favorites, Stephen Morse, on Neuroscience and the Future of Personhood and Responsibility.
Key phrase: “…until that happens...”
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The Moral Perspective: The more you think, the... →
themoralperspective:
A new study in the journal Psychological Science suggests that the human tendency to cheat is a natural impulse, and that given some time for reflection, humans are less likely to cheat.
The research experiment — conducted by Shaul Shalvi, a psychologist at the University of Amsterdam, and his…
Which has always amazed me neuroanatomically speaking. In 2002, the...
