Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Brain engravings

Thanks to MIND HACKS. This looks like a great gift for certain
professionals.

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/02/engraved_brains.html


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Monday, February 23, 2009

Working memory training changes brain chemistry

Report of an interesting study courtesy of SHARP BRAINS

http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2009/02/22/working-memory-training-can-influence-brain-biochemistry/


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Sunday, February 22, 2009

Just for fun: How old is your brain

Just for fun. I have no idea about the psychometric integrity of the
test

http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/21/how-old-is-your-brain/


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Friday, February 20, 2009

On the road again: Boston NASP 2009

I'm on the road again for work-related business. I will be attending and presenting at the 2009 NASP conference in Boston from Feb 23 to March 1.

I don't expect much time to blog...except for possible "push" type FYI posts re: content posted at other blogs.....or...mobile blogging (check out the link.....it is very cool...but, of course, I tend to be a tech nerd)......with pictures of activities, people, etc. at the conference.


I shall return.



Thursday, February 19, 2009

Encephalon brain blog carnival 64

Check it out via MIND HACKS.

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/02/encephalon_64_powers.html


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Saturday, February 14, 2009

Book nook: In Search of Time: The Science of a Curious Dimension



A new book on the general topic of how humans have studied and thought about time for decades. It doesn't look to cover the detailed cognitive IQ brain clock research that is the focus of this blog but, nevertheless, it might make a good read for placing our thinking about the phenomena of time in a broad perspective. I may need to purchase and read

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Beginning with a 5000-year-old tomb in Drogheda, Ireland, illuminated only at the winter solstice, science writer Falk asks the question,"What is time?... the stuff that flows... or a dimension, like space?" Falk (Universe on a T-Shirt) explores the origins of calendar time, from primitive astronomical observatories to the precision clocks of today. Though the movement of the heavens provided the basis for years, months, days and even the seven-day week, it wasn't until the Catholic Church needed to date important events like Easter that reconciling the lunar and solar calendars became a major concern; as such, the Church became "one of the strongest supporters of precision astronomy and timekeeping." Falk seamlessly combines science with literary and philosophical observations ("Chaucer had no notion of the length of a minute; Shakespeare did but nowhere does he mention the second") and digresses to fascinating topics like root notions of past and future, the vagaries of memory and the behavior of birds at breakfast time. Rounding out his multi-course feast, Falk contrasts Newton's notion of "absolute, true, and mathematical" time with Einstein's final words in 1955, "the distinction of past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion," to present modern speculations on black holes and the universe's future.
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Friday, February 06, 2009

Brain Blogging Carnival 43

Can be found at Brain Blogger.

http://brainblogger.com/2009/02/06/brain-blogging-forty-third-edition/


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Color and the mind

This story is all over the blogosphere and paper press. I might as well
join the parade. Interesting research on how red and blue may
influence cognitive performance.

http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/02/colouring_your_mind_-_red_improves_attention_to_detail_blue.php


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Brain injury conference

Thanks to the BI blog for the FYI re: a conference.

http://braininjury.blogs.com/braininjury/2009/02/first-annual-conference-on-culture-ethnicity-and-brain-injury-rehabilitation.html


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Thursday, February 05, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Sunday, February 01, 2009

Mental time-keeping scholar: Katya Rubia



I've added Tanya Rubia to the IQ Brain Clock blogroll of Mental Time Keeping Scholars (see right-side of blog page). I did so after skimming her excellent overview article on the "Neural Correlates of Time Management".....which is now also available under the Key Research Articles blog section. Human time perception is one of many areas of research interest for this mental time keeping scholar.

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IQ Brain Clock brain localization overview

I previously blogged about a special issue of Acta Neurobiologiae devoted to the minds brain clock. I provided a TOC and links to the papers. I just now skimmed one of the papers by Rubia & Smith (2004):

RUBIA K. and SMITH A.
The neural correlates of cognitive time management: a review 

My conclusion is that this is an excellent overview of the basic empirical research and theoretical literature regarding mental time-keeping (i.e., the IQ Brain Clock). It also provides a nice summary of the general consensus re: the major areas of the brain believed to be involved in motor and cognitive timing, areas featured in prior posts here. Below is a copy of the first concluding paragraph...where I've added tag links to all prior IQ Brain Clock posts that refer to these brain areas or concepts. I will shortly add Rubia to the mental timing scholars blogroll and this article to the key research articles section of this blog.

  • In conclusion, this review on the neural correlates of cognitive time management shows that predominantly right hemispheric dorsolateral and inferior prefrontal cortices, anterior cingulate, the SMA, the basal ganglia and the lateral cerebellar hemispheres appear to be involved in both functions of motor timing and time estimation. Furthermore, the review shows that the dichotomy between motor and perceptive timing functions may be artificial. Both functions appear to be mediated by identical neural networks and may be inseparable.