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March 6, 2010

2010-03-05 Spike activity

Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:Time magazine reports on how darkness can encourage dishonest acts even when anonymity is accounted for.A study finding a link with aversion to inequality an activity in the ventral striatum is brilliantly covered by The Frontal Cortex.The Point of Inquiry podcast has an excellent discussion on the psychology of cold reading.A preview of a spe

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May 25, 2009

I'm a People Person!

Or I would be if I had greater gray matter density in my left and right inferior temporal lobes, my orbitofrontal cortex and ventral striatum (collapsed into one big region of interest), and my left putamen and pallidum. Plus lower gray matter density in my left and right cerebellum (Lebreton et al., 2009).click figure for larger viewFig. 1 (from Lebreton et al., 2009). Regions in which gray matt

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