In Praise of Walking – My new book
I’ve a new book coming out in June 2019, published by The Bodley Head as well as Vintage, all under the PenguinRandomHouse stable. It’s just under a 100k words long (including references). It’s a big story: taking us on our human walking story in evolutionary deep time, through the development of walking, the mechanics of… Read More
The Psychological Science Accelerator: Call for Study Submissions (Deadline: June 20th)
Originally posted on Psychological Science Accelerator:
The Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA), a network of 300 labs collaborating to collect large-scale international samples of psychological data, is currently accepting study proposals from all areas of psychological science. Anyone can submit a proposal, whether or not they are a member of the PSA. Our mission is to…
Transgenerational musical evolution
My first thread on twitter: It’s a stinking wet evening, I’m on the train on the way home after doing an extra-mural lecture, and I want to float some musical hypotheses as a distraction from my wet shoes. Hypothesis #1: I’ve been listening to do Radiohead’s OK Computer again – it is still, by turns,… Read More
Conscious spoons, really? Pushing back against panpsychism
Originally posted on NeuroBanter:
So today I’d been planning to write about a new paper from our lab, just out in Neuropsychologia, in which we show how people without synaesthesia can be trained, over a few weeks, to have synaesthesia-like experiences – and that this training induces noticeable changes in their brains. It’s interesting stuff,…
The real reason a third of antidepressants are prescribed for something else
From Quartz “It was when he became a father that Michael Briggs resolved to somehow bring his ulcerative colitis under control. He was determined to avoid what many people with the disease end up needing—having part or all of their large intestine removed. A trained scientist, manager of a physics lab at the University of… Read More
Our vast, shared family tree.
Originally posted on gcbias:
You might not like to admit it, but you’re related to me. It’s very unlikely that you’re my sibling (I’m not even sure if my family read these posts). You’re one of over seven billion people alive today, and I have only one sister, so the chance that you as a…
The whys and wherefores of the volitional control of breathing
Breathing above the brainstem: Volitional control and attentional modulation in humans. Authors Jose Luis Herrero1, Simon Khuvis2, Erin Yeagle2, Moran Cerf3, and Ashesh D. Mehta4,* 1Feinstein Institute for Medical Research 2Laboratory of Human Brain Mapping,Feinstein Institute for Medical Research 3Northwestern University 4Hofstra North Shore LIJ School of Medicine and Feinstein Institute for… Read More
‘A Brain for Business – A Brain for Life’ is now available (and with a discount, too)
My new book, ‘A Brain for Business – A Brain for Life‘ is now out in hardback. It can be ordered from Palgrave Macmillan and comes with a time-limited 20% discount by applying the following discount code: PMPTWENTYA.
Dave, Boz and Lee’s Global Adventure
Originally posted on Flip Chart Fairy Tales:
Dave, Boz and Lee are three relatively well-off brothers. Every year they like to spend a few weeks living it up at the 7-star Resort Europa. They have been going for years and all the staff know them well. They are sometimes a little badly behaved and have,…
Brexit & “They need us more than we need them”
Originally posted on Nog's Musings:
The following is a fact and informed assumption based article. It is not about patriotism, optimism, talking the country down or any other emotional aspects but simply a reasoned, logic based argument. Andrew Lilico has produced a report on “Seven key British perspectives on the Brexit negotiations“. (See this…
