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The Royal Society's fantastic Summer Science week kicks off in London tomorrow. One of its flagship research pieces is 'The Art of Resilience for Successful Ageing'. Led by Professor Dorina Cadar, the project presents the most in-depth study yet of cognitive resilience – and why some brains stay healthy and resilient as we age, while others suffer cognitive decline.

The results suggest a new way of thinking about age, but also life in general.

I interviewed Professor Cadar on what the results can tell us about cognitive resilience and the ageing brain, as well as tips on what we can do for the best chance of a healthy mind in later life... and how a society that prioritises grind could be storing up problems for the future. Read it here: https://www.natwest.com/premier-banking/insights/money-matters/the-secrets-to-a-happier-retirement.html #royalsociety #summerscience #brainScience #brain #neuroscience #science #aging #cognitive #universityofsussex

The Royal Society's fantastic Summer Science week kicks off in London tomorrow. One of its flagship research pieces is 'The Art of Resilience for Successful Ageing'. Led by Professor Dorina Cadar, the project presents the most in-depth study yet of cognitive resilience – and why some brains stay healthy and resilient as we age, while others suffer cognitive decline.

The results suggest a new way of thinking about age, but also life in general.

I interviewed Professor Cadar on what the results can tell us about cognitive resilience and the ageing brain, as well as tips on what we can do for the best chance of a healthy mind in later life... and how a society that prioritises grind could be storing up problems for the future. Read it here: https://www.natwest.com/premier-banking/insights/money-matters/the-secrets-to-a-happier-retirement.html #royalsociety #summerscience #brainScience #brain #neuroscience #science #aging #cognitive #universityofsussex

The Royal Society's fantastic Summer Science week kicks off in London tomorrow. One of its flagship research pieces is 'The Art of Resilience for Successful Ageing'. Led by Professor Dorina Cadar, the project presents the most in-depth study yet of cognitive resilience – and why some brains stay healthy and resilient as we age, while others suffer cognitive decline.

The results suggest a new way of thinking about age, but also life in general.

I interviewed Professor Cadar on what the results can tell us about cognitive resilience and the ageing brain, as well as tips on what we can do for the best chance of a healthy mind in later life... and how a society that prioritises grind could be storing up problems for the future. Read it here: https://www.natwest.com/premier-banking/insights/money-matters/the-secrets-to-a-happier-retirement.html #royalsociety #summerscience #brainScience #brain #neuroscience #science #aging #cognitive #universityofsussex

The Royal Society's fantastic Summer Science week kicks off in London tomorrow. One of its flagship research pieces is 'The Art of Resilience for Successful Ageing'. Led by Professor Dorina Cadar, the project presents the most in-depth study yet of cognitive resilience – and why some brains stay healthy and resilient as we age, while others suffer cognitive decline.

The results suggest a new way of thinking about age, but also life in general.

I interviewed Professor Cadar on what the results can tell us about cognitive resilience and the ageing brain, as well as tips on what we can do for the best chance of a healthy mind in later life... and how a society that prioritises grind could be storing up problems for the future. Read it here: https://www.natwest.com/premier-banking/insights/money-matters/the-secrets-to-a-happier-retirement.html #royalsociety #summerscience #brainScience #brain #neuroscience #science #aging #cognitive #universityofsussex

The Royal Society's fantastic Summer Science week kicks off in London tomorrow. One of its flagship research pieces is 'The Art of Resilience for Successful Ageing'. Led by Professor Dorina Cadar, the project presents the most in-depth study yet of cognitive resilience – and why some brains stay healthy and resilient as we age, while others suffer cognitive decline.

The results suggest a new way of thinking about age, but also life in general.

I interviewed Professor Cadar on what the results can tell us about cognitive resilience and the ageing brain, as well as tips on what we can do for the best chance of a healthy mind in later life... and how a society that prioritises grind could be storing up problems for the future. Read it here: https://www.natwest.com/premier-banking/insights/money-matters/the-secrets-to-a-happier-retirement.html #royalsociety #summerscience #brainScience #brain #neuroscience #science #aging #cognitive #universityofsussex

DATE: June 23, 2026 at 08:06AM
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TITLE: New brain study reveals speech learning works differently than we thought

URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260619020514.htm

A new study suggests that learning and remembering speech relies more on how the brain processes sounds and sensations than on the areas that control mouth and face movements. The discovery could reshape speech therapy and help improve future brain-based communication technologies.

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DATE: June 23, 2026 at 08:06AM
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TITLE: New brain study reveals speech learning works differently than we thought

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A new study suggests that learning and remembering speech relies more on how the brain processes sounds and sensations than on the areas that control mouth and face movements. The discovery could reshape speech therapy and help improve future brain-based communication technologies.

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DATE: June 23, 2026 at 08:06AM
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TITLE: New brain study reveals speech learning works differently than we thought

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A new study suggests that learning and remembering speech relies more on how the brain processes sounds and sensations than on the areas that control mouth and face movements. The discovery could reshape speech therapy and help improve future brain-based communication technologies.

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DATE: June 23, 2026 at 08:06AM
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TITLE: New brain study reveals speech learning works differently than we thought

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A new study suggests that learning and remembering speech relies more on how the brain processes sounds and sensations than on the areas that control mouth and face movements. The discovery could reshape speech therapy and help improve future brain-based communication technologies.

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DATE: June 23, 2026 at 08:06AM
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TITLE: New brain study reveals speech learning works differently than we thought

URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260619020514.htm

A new study suggests that learning and remembering speech relies more on how the brain processes sounds and sensations than on the areas that control mouth and face movements. The discovery could reshape speech therapy and help improve future brain-based communication technologies.

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DATE: June 23, 2026 at 08:06AM
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TITLE: New brain study reveals speech learning works differently than we thought

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A new study suggests that learning and remembering speech relies more on how the brain processes sounds and sensations than on the areas that control mouth and face movements. The discovery could reshape speech therapy and help improve future brain-based communication technologies.

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DATE: June 21, 2026 at 02:30AM
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TITLE: Scientists discover neurons must break their DNA to build the brain

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As newborn neurons make their way through the developing brain, they must squeeze through incredibly tight spaces to reach their final destinations. Researchers discovered that this physical journey routinely causes some of the most severe forms of DNA damage—double-strand breaks—yet the young brain has evolved an impressive ability to repair the damage almost immediately.

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As newborn neurons make their way through the developing brain, they must squeeze through incredibly tight spaces to reach their final destinations. Researchers discovered that this physical journey routinely causes some of the most severe forms of DNA damage—double-strand breaks—yet the young brain has evolved an impressive ability to repair the damage almost immediately.

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Word and phrase valence as keys to understanding human psychology

Since virtually everything we do, think, and feel has some linguistic component it follows that our perceived valences of words and phrases will be reliable indicators of our psychological makeup.

This is especially true if our perceptions of these valences is “captured” in fraught contexts in real-world, real-time situations.

To be even clearer and more precise, it is fair to say that it is only possible to capture actual real valences in real-world, real-time situations.

When we do not work with real-world, real-time situations, we are capable only of working with the idea of them, a theory of them, a memory of them. And none of that can possibly capture the actual valence as it actually functions in real-life.

The theory, memory, or idea of a psychological valence associated with words and phrases occurs at a different level of abstraction or cognition from the valence itself.

Theories, memories, and ideas of psychological valences can be very interesting and are worth pursuing, but they are not the thing itself and as such have only a weak capacity to grasp the psychology exposed by actual valences in action in the real-world.

In a previous post—Words and word groups mapped in the brain—I discussed the following video, which is well-worth viewing again if you missed it the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k61nJkx5aDQ

I said:

From these maps we can see that word groups have idiosyncratic arrangements, associations, and emphases.

And from this we can understand how analysis of interpersonal communication details can lead to beneficial changes in word group arrangements and thus also human psychology.

The video is very helpful for visualizing how words and word groups are organized in the brain. And this illustrates how and why FIML works as well as it does.

By “capturing” actual verbal psychological valences in real-time, real-world situations, partners gain immense insight into how their psychologies actually function in the real-world, how they actually deal with real life.

Focusing on very brief real-life valences has another very large benefit: though the valences are as real as they come, they are also very small, comprising nothing more than part of the working memory load at the time.

This is a bigger deal than it might seem. Virtually all of us have been trained by years of theorizing about our psychologies to see even very small incidents of real psychological valence as aspects of some theory or story about them.

No, no, no. Don’t do that. Just see each one for what it is—a brief valences that appeared briefly in working memory; and that has been “frozen” by the FIML technique as a small snapshot to be identified and understood as it is.

First get the evidence, get the data. Those valence snapshots are the data. Get plenty of them and you may find that you do not even need any theory about what they are or what caused them.

They just are. Indeed, theorizing about them makes them different, bigger or worse, while simultaneously hiding their real nature.

Most of us do not know how to think about real-world, real-time valences because we tend to always fit them into into an a priori format, a format we already believe in. That could be a theory of psychology or a take on what our personality is or what the other person’s personality is.

In the maps shown in the video, that would constitute a whole brain response to a small valence that appeared only briefly.

By using the FIML technique, you will find it is much easier and much more beneficial to reorganize small parts of the verbal map one piece at a time than to reorganize the entire map all at once based on some idea.

In practice, FIML deals with more than just words and phrases, but the whole practice can be largely understood by seeing how it works with language. FIML treats gestures, tone of voice, expressions, and so on in the same way as language—by isolating brief incidents and analyzing them for what they really are.

Word and phrase valence as keys to understanding human psychology

Since virtually everything we do, think, and feel has some linguistic component it follows that our perceived valences of words and phrases will be reliable indicators of our psychological makeup.

This is especially true if our perceptions of these valences is “captured” in fraught contexts in real-world, real-time situations.

To be even clearer and more precise, it is fair to say that it is only possible to capture actual real valences in real-world, real-time situations.

When we do not work with real-world, real-time situations, we are capable only of working with the idea of them, a theory of them, a memory of them. And none of that can possibly capture the actual valence as it actually functions in real-life.

The theory, memory, or idea of a psychological valence associated with words and phrases occurs at a different level of abstraction or cognition from the valence itself.

Theories, memories, and ideas of psychological valences can be very interesting and are worth pursuing, but they are not the thing itself and as such have only a weak capacity to grasp the psychology exposed by actual valences in action in the real-world.

In a previous post—Words and word groups mapped in the brain—I discussed the following video, which is well-worth viewing again if you missed it the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k61nJkx5aDQ

I said:

From these maps we can see that word groups have idiosyncratic arrangements, associations, and emphases.

And from this we can understand how analysis of interpersonal communication details can lead to beneficial changes in word group arrangements and thus also human psychology.

The video is very helpful for visualizing how words and word groups are organized in the brain. And this illustrates how and why FIML works as well as it does.

By “capturing” actual verbal psychological valences in real-time, real-world situations, partners gain immense insight into how their psychologies actually function in the real-world, how they actually deal with real life.

Focusing on very brief real-life valences has another very large benefit: though the valences are as real as they come, they are also very small, comprising nothing more than part of the working memory load at the time.

This is a bigger deal than it might seem. Virtually all of us have been trained by years of theorizing about our psychologies to see even very small incidents of real psychological valence as aspects of some theory or story about them.

No, no, no. Don’t do that. Just see each one for what it is—a brief valences that appeared briefly in working memory; and that has been “frozen” by the FIML technique as a small snapshot to be identified and understood as it is.

First get the evidence, get the data. Those valence snapshots are the data. Get plenty of them and you may find that you do not even need any theory about what they are or what caused them.

They just are. Indeed, theorizing about them makes them different, bigger or worse, while simultaneously hiding their real nature.

Most of us do not know how to think about real-world, real-time valences because we tend to always fit them into into an a priori format, a format we already believe in. That could be a theory of psychology or a take on what our personality is or what the other person’s personality is.

In the maps shown in the video, that would constitute a whole brain response to a small valence that appeared only briefly.

By using the FIML technique, you will find it is much easier and much more beneficial to reorganize small parts of the verbal map one piece at a time than to reorganize the entire map all at once based on some idea.

In practice, FIML deals with more than just words and phrases, but the whole practice can be largely understood by seeing how it works with language. FIML treats gestures, tone of voice, expressions, and so on in the same way as language—by isolating brief incidents and analyzing them for what they really are.

Word and phrase valence as keys to understanding human psychology

Since virtually everything we do, think, and feel has some linguistic component it follows that our perceived valences of words and phrases will be reliable indicators of our psychological makeup.

This is especially true if our perceptions of these valences is “captured” in fraught contexts in real-world, real-time situations.

To be even clearer and more precise, it is fair to say that it is only possible to capture actual real valences in real-world, real-time situations.

When we do not work with real-world, real-time situations, we are capable only of working with the idea of them, a theory of them, a memory of them. And none of that can possibly capture the actual valence as it actually functions in real-life.

The theory, memory, or idea of a psychological valence associated with words and phrases occurs at a different level of abstraction or cognition from the valence itself.

Theories, memories, and ideas of psychological valences can be very interesting and are worth pursuing, but they are not the thing itself and as such have only a weak capacity to grasp the psychology exposed by actual valences in action in the real-world.

In a previous post—Words and word groups mapped in the brain—I discussed the following video, which is well-worth viewing again if you missed it the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k61nJkx5aDQ

I said:

From these maps we can see that word groups have idiosyncratic arrangements, associations, and emphases.

And from this we can understand how analysis of interpersonal communication details can lead to beneficial changes in word group arrangements and thus also human psychology.

The video is very helpful for visualizing how words and word groups are organized in the brain. And this illustrates how and why FIML works as well as it does.

By “capturing” actual verbal psychological valences in real-time, real-world situations, partners gain immense insight into how their psychologies actually function in the real-world, how they actually deal with real life.

Focusing on very brief real-life valences has another very large benefit: though the valences are as real as they come, they are also very small, comprising nothing more than part of the working memory load at the time.

This is a bigger deal than it might seem. Virtually all of us have been trained by years of theorizing about our psychologies to see even very small incidents of real psychological valence as aspects of some theory or story about them.

No, no, no. Don’t do that. Just see each one for what it is—a brief valences that appeared briefly in working memory; and that has been “frozen” by the FIML technique as a small snapshot to be identified and understood as it is.

First get the evidence, get the data. Those valence snapshots are the data. Get plenty of them and you may find that you do not even need any theory about what they are or what caused them.

They just are. Indeed, theorizing about them makes them different, bigger or worse, while simultaneously hiding their real nature.

Most of us do not know how to think about real-world, real-time valences because we tend to always fit them into into an a priori format, a format we already believe in. That could be a theory of psychology or a take on what our personality is or what the other person’s personality is.

In the maps shown in the video, that would constitute a whole brain response to a small valence that appeared only briefly.

By using the FIML technique, you will find it is much easier and much more beneficial to reorganize small parts of the verbal map one piece at a time than to reorganize the entire map all at once based on some idea.

In practice, FIML deals with more than just words and phrases, but the whole practice can be largely understood by seeing how it works with language. FIML treats gestures, tone of voice, expressions, and so on in the same way as language—by isolating brief incidents and analyzing them for what they really are.

Word and phrase valence as keys to understanding human psychology

Since virtually everything we do, think, and feel has some linguistic component it follows that our perceived valences of words and phrases will be reliable indicators of our psychological makeup.

This is especially true if our perceptions of these valences is “captured” in fraught contexts in real-world, real-time situations.

To be even clearer and more precise, it is fair to say that it is only possible to capture actual real valences in real-world, real-time situations.

When we do not work with real-world, real-time situations, we are capable only of working with the idea of them, a theory of them, a memory of them. And none of that can possibly capture the actual valence as it actually functions in real-life.

The theory, memory, or idea of a psychological valence associated with words and phrases occurs at a different level of abstraction or cognition from the valence itself.

Theories, memories, and ideas of psychological valences can be very interesting and are worth pursuing, but they are not the thing itself and as such have only a weak capacity to grasp the psychology exposed by actual valences in action in the real-world.

In a previous post—Words and word groups mapped in the brain—I discussed the following video, which is well-worth viewing again if you missed it the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k61nJkx5aDQ

I said:

From these maps we can see that word groups have idiosyncratic arrangements, associations, and emphases.

And from this we can understand how analysis of interpersonal communication details can lead to beneficial changes in word group arrangements and thus also human psychology.

The video is very helpful for visualizing how words and word groups are organized in the brain. And this illustrates how and why FIML works as well as it does.

By “capturing” actual verbal psychological valences in real-time, real-world situations, partners gain immense insight into how their psychologies actually function in the real-world, how they actually deal with real life.

Focusing on very brief real-life valences has another very large benefit: though the valences are as real as they come, they are also very small, comprising nothing more than part of the working memory load at the time.

This is a bigger deal than it might seem. Virtually all of us have been trained by years of theorizing about our psychologies to see even very small incidents of real psychological valence as aspects of some theory or story about them.

No, no, no. Don’t do that. Just see each one for what it is—a brief valences that appeared briefly in working memory; and that has been “frozen” by the FIML technique as a small snapshot to be identified and understood as it is.

First get the evidence, get the data. Those valence snapshots are the data. Get plenty of them and you may find that you do not even need any theory about what they are or what caused them.

They just are. Indeed, theorizing about them makes them different, bigger or worse, while simultaneously hiding their real nature.

Most of us do not know how to think about real-world, real-time valences because we tend to always fit them into into an a priori format, a format we already believe in. That could be a theory of psychology or a take on what our personality is or what the other person’s personality is.

In the maps shown in the video, that would constitute a whole brain response to a small valence that appeared only briefly.

By using the FIML technique, you will find it is much easier and much more beneficial to reorganize small parts of the verbal map one piece at a time than to reorganize the entire map all at once based on some idea.

In practice, FIML deals with more than just words and phrases, but the whole practice can be largely understood by seeing how it works with language. FIML treats gestures, tone of voice, expressions, and so on in the same way as language—by isolating brief incidents and analyzing them for what they really are.

Word and phrase valence as keys to understanding human psychology

Since virtually everything we do, think, and feel has some linguistic component it follows that our perceived valences of words and phrases will be reliable indicators of our psychological makeup.

This is especially true if our perceptions of these valences is “captured” in fraught contexts in real-world, real-time situations.

To be even clearer and more precise, it is fair to say that it is only possible to capture actual real valences in real-world, real-time situations.

When we do not work with real-world, real-time situations, we are capable only of working with the idea of them, a theory of them, a memory of them. And none of that can possibly capture the actual valence as it actually functions in real-life.

The theory, memory, or idea of a psychological valence associated with words and phrases occurs at a different level of abstraction or cognition from the valence itself.

Theories, memories, and ideas of psychological valences can be very interesting and are worth pursuing, but they are not the thing itself and as such have only a weak capacity to grasp the psychology exposed by actual valences in action in the real-world.

In a previous post—Words and word groups mapped in the brain—I discussed the following video, which is well-worth viewing again if you missed it the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k61nJkx5aDQ

I said:

From these maps we can see that word groups have idiosyncratic arrangements, associations, and emphases.

And from this we can understand how analysis of interpersonal communication details can lead to beneficial changes in word group arrangements and thus also human psychology.

The video is very helpful for visualizing how words and word groups are organized in the brain. And this illustrates how and why FIML works as well as it does.

By “capturing” actual verbal psychological valences in real-time, real-world situations, partners gain immense insight into how their psychologies actually function in the real-world, how they actually deal with real life.

Focusing on very brief real-life valences has another very large benefit: though the valences are as real as they come, they are also very small, comprising nothing more than part of the working memory load at the time.

This is a bigger deal than it might seem. Virtually all of us have been trained by years of theorizing about our psychologies to see even very small incidents of real psychological valence as aspects of some theory or story about them.

No, no, no. Don’t do that. Just see each one for what it is—a brief valences that appeared briefly in working memory; and that has been “frozen” by the FIML technique as a small snapshot to be identified and understood as it is.

First get the evidence, get the data. Those valence snapshots are the data. Get plenty of them and you may find that you do not even need any theory about what they are or what caused them.

They just are. Indeed, theorizing about them makes them different, bigger or worse, while simultaneously hiding their real nature.

Most of us do not know how to think about real-world, real-time valences because we tend to always fit them into into an a priori format, a format we already believe in. That could be a theory of psychology or a take on what our personality is or what the other person’s personality is.

In the maps shown in the video, that would constitute a whole brain response to a small valence that appeared only briefly.

By using the FIML technique, you will find it is much easier and much more beneficial to reorganize small parts of the verbal map one piece at a time than to reorganize the entire map all at once based on some idea.

In practice, FIML deals with more than just words and phrases, but the whole practice can be largely understood by seeing how it works with language. FIML treats gestures, tone of voice, expressions, and so on in the same way as language—by isolating brief incidents and analyzing them for what they really are.

A study published in Neuroscience by researchers at Spain's University of Zaragoza scanned the brains of 100 young adults and found structural differences in those who hold authoritarian beliefs — on both the left and the right. Right-wing authoritarians had lower grey matter volume in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, a region involved in understanding other people's thoughts and perspectives. Left-wing authoritarians had less cortical thickness in the right anterior insula, associated with emotional empathy and behavioral inhibition. Both groups were more impulsive in emotionally negative situations than their less-authoritarian peers.

https://boingboing.net/2026/06/19/brain-scans-of-authoritarians-show-reduced-grey-matter-in-regions-for-empathy-and-social-reasoning.html

#authoritarianism
#BrainScience
#BrainScans
#neurology

A study published in Neuroscience by researchers at Spain's University of Zaragoza scanned the brains of 100 young adults and found structural differences in those who hold authoritarian beliefs — on both the left and the right. Right-wing authoritarians had lower grey matter volume in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, a region involved in understanding other people's thoughts and perspectives. Left-wing authoritarians had less cortical thickness in the right anterior insula, associated with emotional empathy and behavioral inhibition. Both groups were more impulsive in emotionally negative situations than their less-authoritarian peers.

https://boingboing.net/2026/06/19/brain-scans-of-authoritarians-show-reduced-grey-matter-in-regions-for-empathy-and-social-reasoning.html

#authoritarianism
#BrainScience
#BrainScans
#neurology

A study published in Neuroscience by researchers at Spain's University of Zaragoza scanned the brains of 100 young adults and found structural differences in those who hold authoritarian beliefs — on both the left and the right. Right-wing authoritarians had lower grey matter volume in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, a region involved in understanding other people's thoughts and perspectives. Left-wing authoritarians had less cortical thickness in the right anterior insula, associated with emotional empathy and behavioral inhibition. Both groups were more impulsive in emotionally negative situations than their less-authoritarian peers.

https://boingboing.net/2026/06/19/brain-scans-of-authoritarians-show-reduced-grey-matter-in-regions-for-empathy-and-social-reasoning.html

#authoritarianism
#BrainScience
#BrainScans
#neurology

A study published in Neuroscience by researchers at Spain's University of Zaragoza scanned the brains of 100 young adults and found structural differences in those who hold authoritarian beliefs — on both the left and the right. Right-wing authoritarians had lower grey matter volume in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, a region involved in understanding other people's thoughts and perspectives. Left-wing authoritarians had less cortical thickness in the right anterior insula, associated with emotional empathy and behavioral inhibition. Both groups were more impulsive in emotionally negative situations than their less-authoritarian peers.

https://boingboing.net/2026/06/19/brain-scans-of-authoritarians-show-reduced-grey-matter-in-regions-for-empathy-and-social-reasoning.html

#authoritarianism
#BrainScience
#BrainScans
#neurology

A study published in Neuroscience by researchers at Spain's University of Zaragoza scanned the brains of 100 young adults and found structural differences in those who hold authoritarian beliefs — on both the left and the right. Right-wing authoritarians had lower grey matter volume in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, a region involved in understanding other people's thoughts and perspectives. Left-wing authoritarians had less cortical thickness in the right anterior insula, associated with emotional empathy and behavioral inhibition. Both groups were more impulsive in emotionally negative situations than their less-authoritarian peers.

https://boingboing.net/2026/06/19/brain-scans-of-authoritarians-show-reduced-grey-matter-in-regions-for-empathy-and-social-reasoning.html

#authoritarianism
#BrainScience
#BrainScans
#neurology

Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain

Abstract

A single dose of psilocybin, a psychedelic that acutely causes distortions of space–time perception and ego dissolution, produces rapid and persistent therapeutic effects in human clinical trials1,2,3,4. In animal models, psilocybin induces neuroplasticity in cortex and hippocampus5,6,7,8. It remains unclear how human brain network changes relate to subjective and lasting effects of psychedelics. Here we tracked individual-specific brain changes with longitudinal precision functional mapping (roughly 18 magnetic resonance imaging visits per participant). Healthy adults were tracked before, during and for 3 weeks after high-dose psilocybin (25 mg) and methylphenidate (40 mg), and brought back for an additional psilocybin dose 6–12 months later. Psilocybin massively disrupted functional connectivity (FC) in cortex and subcortex, acutely causing more than threefold greater change than methylphenidate. These FC changes were driven by brain desynchronization across spatial scales (areal, global), which dissolved network distinctions by reducing correlations within and anticorrelations between networks. Psilocybin-driven FC changes were strongest in the default mode network, which is connected to the anterior hippocampus and is thought to create our sense of space, time and self. Individual differences in FC changes were strongly linked to the subjective psychedelic experience. Performing a perceptual task reduced psilocybin-driven FC changes. Psilocybin caused persistent decrease in FC between the anterior hippocampus and default mode network, lasting for weeks. Persistent reduction of hippocampal-default mode network connectivity may represent a neuroanatomical and mechanistic correlate of the proplasticity and therapeutic effects of psychedelics.

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It is my understanding that the Buddha and/or the Buddhist tradition was and always has been well aware of psilocybin and probably other psychedelics and herbal drugs, like opium and cannabis.

In light of this, it is significant that the Fifth Precept for lay Buddhists proscribes only alcohol, and it does this very specifically by mentioning two types of alcoholic beverages (fermented and distilled) and nothing else. The Fifth Precept does not mention any other drugs.

As modern Buddhists, we can see that this conforms with what many of us have experienced with psychedelics and cannabis, among other ‘recreational’ drugs. Of course those drugs can be harmful but they can also do people a lot of good. Alcohol use, on the other hand, too often leads to very dangerous and spiritually stultifying mental conditions that do no one any good.

I have no problem with Buddhist teachers extrapolating the meaning of the Fifth Precept to include other drugs and sensory indulgences, but also believe that paying attention to the original meaning and its socio-environmental context (when people knew lots about plants) is important to keep in mind.

For more on this see: Are We Misunderstanding the Fifth Precept? ABN

DATE: June 13, 2026 at 06:00AM
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TITLE: Neuroscientists discover previously unknown cognitive benefits of reading physical books

URL: https://www.psypost.org/neuroscientists-discover-previously-unknown-cognitive-benefits-of-reading-physical-books/

A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE provides evidence that reading comic books on physical paper helps the brain absorb and connect story details more easily than reading on a digital tablet. The findings suggest that physical books provide stable spatial and tactile cues that lower the brain’s workload when a reader tries to recall complex plot points later. This research offers fresh insights into how digital reading formats might subtly alter human reading comprehension and memory.

Reading a book involves a complex series of mental tasks. A reader must decode words, interpret pictures, and connect new information to what they already know. To do this efficiently, the human brain builds what scientists call a story schema. A story schema is an internal mental framework that helps a person organize characters, timelines, and spatial relationships as a narrative unfolds.

The physical format of a book might play a hidden role in constructing this mental framework. Scientists suspect that physical paper provides reliable sensory anchors, such as the thickness of the pages on either side of the binding and the fixed location of text on a page. These physical anchors might help the brain map out the narrative in a physical space. When reading on a digital screen, these sensory anchors are largely absent because the screen remains physically identical while the text simply changes.

The authors of the current study wanted to know if the cognitive effects of paper extend to reading visual narratives. They chose Japanese manga, which are comic books with rich visual and narrative structures, to see how different reading mediums affect brain activity.

Kuniyoshi L. Sakai, a professor in the Department of Basic Science at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo, explains that the study originated from an industry question. “This research project began with an inquiry from COAMIX INC., one of the major publishers of Japanese manga, whether we could investigate any values of paper books scientifically,” Sakai said. “As a neuroscientist working on the human brain, especially on its language function, I decided to compare brain activation between paper and digital reading.”

To conduct the experiment, the researchers had to overcome a technical hurdle related to measuring brain activity. Magnetic resonance imaging scanners use powerful magnets to track blood flow in the brain, which provides a real-time map of neural activity.

“When comparing a paper book and an electronic tablet, we cannot bring the latter device into the scanning room, because the scanner is a huge magnet,” Sakai said. “Then, I had an idea of scanning the brain after one’s reading a book on paper or tablet. This was a long shot, and the right results we obtained surprised us.”

The researchers recruited 25 right-handed university students who were native Japanese speakers. The scientists used a popular manga series where each story is split into two halves. These halves depict the exact same events but from the different perspectives of a couple experiencing conflicting feelings. This unique format allowed the scientists to test how well readers integrate information across different viewpoints.

Participants were randomly assigned to read the first half of a manga story on either a physical paper book or an electronic tablet. This reading took place in a normal room outside of the scanning machinery. The scientists ensured that both the paper book and the tablet were similar in physical size. They also used light meters to match the brightness of the room’s light reflecting off the paper with the backlight shining from the tablet.

After finishing the first half, the participants entered the scanner. While lying inside the machine, participants wore special digital goggles to read the second half of the story. During this reading phase, the participants periodically rated their empathy toward the characters on a four-point scale to ensure they were actively engaged with the plot.

Finally, while still inside the scanner, the participants answered multiple-choice questions about the story they had just finished. The scientists divided these questions into two distinct categories. Set one included questions that could be answered just by remembering the first half of the story. Set two contained more demanding questions that required the reader to combine details from both halves of the narrative.

The behavioral measurements showed that participants answered the questions with similar accuracy regardless of the medium they initially used. However, their response times differed based on their original reading format. When answering the complex questions from set two, participants who read the first half on a tablet took longer to respond than those who read on paper. The scientists noted that tablet readers required more time to mentally piece together the two halves of the story.

The brain scans provided evidence that matched these behavioral differences. When participants read the second half of the story, those who had started the story on paper showed reduced activity in the left lateral premotor cortex and inferior frontal gyrus. These specific left-sided brain regions are deeply involved in language processing and narrative integration. Lower activity in these areas suggests that the brain did not have to work as hard to understand the new information.

Because the paper readers had already built a strong mental foundation during the first half of the story, integrating the second half required less mental effort. In contrast, tablet readers showed much higher activation in these exact same left frontal brain regions. When answering the complex set two questions, tablet readers also showed increased activity in the right frontal regions of the brain. The scientists explain that these right-sided areas act as a supportive neural system when the brain faces difficult mental tasks.

“We found that both left and right hemispheres, which work during reading mostly for proper linguistic functions and supportive roles, respectively, are less engaged when manga contents are well understood through reading on paper, compared with digital reading,” Sakai told PsyPost. “This neuroscientific result is the first to show such an immediate effect of reading on paper, which would eventually change your brain.”

The amount of activity in these right frontal regions directly correlated with how accurately the tablet readers answered the questions. This indicates that tablet readers had to rely on excessive mental integration processes to achieve the same level of accuracy as the paper readers. The scientists also noticed heightened activity in a brain region called the right angular gyrus among the tablet users. This region is associated with processing spatial relationships, suggesting the tablet readers had to work harder to reconstruct the visual layout of the comic book panels in their minds.

As with all research, there are some limitations. The study specifically used visual narratives, and a reader might wonder if plain text novels would produce the exact same brain patterns.

“The same results would be obtained for reading a novel or other conventional texts, because story lines and contextual flow are basically the same among them,” Sakai said. “One important advantage of using manga stories is that manga has visual narratives, which provide rich pictorial information that facilitates the comprehension of scenes.”

Another factor is the physical difference between the devices themselves. The paper books reflected light from the room, while the tablets used a glowing backlight. Flipping a physical page also takes a fraction of a second longer than tapping a digital screen, which might subtly alter the reading rhythm and give the brain an extra moment to process information.

A reader might misinterpret these findings to mean that digital reading prevents learning, but the accuracy rates show that tablet readers still understood the material. They simply required more cognitive effort and time to reach that understanding. The paper format tends to make the reading experience smoother by providing a consistent physical anchor for the memory.

Future research will likely explore these variables in greater detail and expand to other forms of media interaction. “Using a similar method, we are now examining any effects of writing with a pen or a keyboard,” Sakai said. “This would be a natural next step for comparing paper and electronic devices.”

The study, “Manga reading on paper vs. digital devices: Prospective effects on core and supportive integration processes in the brain,” was authored by Keita Umejima, Yuki Sunada, and Kuniyoshi L. Sakai.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/neuroscientists-discover-previously-unknown-cognitive-benefits-of-reading-physical-books/

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DATE: June 13, 2026 at 06:00AM
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TITLE: Neuroscientists discover previously unknown cognitive benefits of reading physical books

URL: https://www.psypost.org/neuroscientists-discover-previously-unknown-cognitive-benefits-of-reading-physical-books/

A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE provides evidence that reading comic books on physical paper helps the brain absorb and connect story details more easily than reading on a digital tablet. The findings suggest that physical books provide stable spatial and tactile cues that lower the brain’s workload when a reader tries to recall complex plot points later. This research offers fresh insights into how digital reading formats might subtly alter human reading comprehension and memory.

Reading a book involves a complex series of mental tasks. A reader must decode words, interpret pictures, and connect new information to what they already know. To do this efficiently, the human brain builds what scientists call a story schema. A story schema is an internal mental framework that helps a person organize characters, timelines, and spatial relationships as a narrative unfolds.

The physical format of a book might play a hidden role in constructing this mental framework. Scientists suspect that physical paper provides reliable sensory anchors, such as the thickness of the pages on either side of the binding and the fixed location of text on a page. These physical anchors might help the brain map out the narrative in a physical space. When reading on a digital screen, these sensory anchors are largely absent because the screen remains physically identical while the text simply changes.

The authors of the current study wanted to know if the cognitive effects of paper extend to reading visual narratives. They chose Japanese manga, which are comic books with rich visual and narrative structures, to see how different reading mediums affect brain activity.

Kuniyoshi L. Sakai, a professor in the Department of Basic Science at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo, explains that the study originated from an industry question. “This research project began with an inquiry from COAMIX INC., one of the major publishers of Japanese manga, whether we could investigate any values of paper books scientifically,” Sakai said. “As a neuroscientist working on the human brain, especially on its language function, I decided to compare brain activation between paper and digital reading.”

To conduct the experiment, the researchers had to overcome a technical hurdle related to measuring brain activity. Magnetic resonance imaging scanners use powerful magnets to track blood flow in the brain, which provides a real-time map of neural activity.

“When comparing a paper book and an electronic tablet, we cannot bring the latter device into the scanning room, because the scanner is a huge magnet,” Sakai said. “Then, I had an idea of scanning the brain after one’s reading a book on paper or tablet. This was a long shot, and the right results we obtained surprised us.”

The researchers recruited 25 right-handed university students who were native Japanese speakers. The scientists used a popular manga series where each story is split into two halves. These halves depict the exact same events but from the different perspectives of a couple experiencing conflicting feelings. This unique format allowed the scientists to test how well readers integrate information across different viewpoints.

Participants were randomly assigned to read the first half of a manga story on either a physical paper book or an electronic tablet. This reading took place in a normal room outside of the scanning machinery. The scientists ensured that both the paper book and the tablet were similar in physical size. They also used light meters to match the brightness of the room’s light reflecting off the paper with the backlight shining from the tablet.

After finishing the first half, the participants entered the scanner. While lying inside the machine, participants wore special digital goggles to read the second half of the story. During this reading phase, the participants periodically rated their empathy toward the characters on a four-point scale to ensure they were actively engaged with the plot.

Finally, while still inside the scanner, the participants answered multiple-choice questions about the story they had just finished. The scientists divided these questions into two distinct categories. Set one included questions that could be answered just by remembering the first half of the story. Set two contained more demanding questions that required the reader to combine details from both halves of the narrative.

The behavioral measurements showed that participants answered the questions with similar accuracy regardless of the medium they initially used. However, their response times differed based on their original reading format. When answering the complex questions from set two, participants who read the first half on a tablet took longer to respond than those who read on paper. The scientists noted that tablet readers required more time to mentally piece together the two halves of the story.

The brain scans provided evidence that matched these behavioral differences. When participants read the second half of the story, those who had started the story on paper showed reduced activity in the left lateral premotor cortex and inferior frontal gyrus. These specific left-sided brain regions are deeply involved in language processing and narrative integration. Lower activity in these areas suggests that the brain did not have to work as hard to understand the new information.

Because the paper readers had already built a strong mental foundation during the first half of the story, integrating the second half required less mental effort. In contrast, tablet readers showed much higher activation in these exact same left frontal brain regions. When answering the complex set two questions, tablet readers also showed increased activity in the right frontal regions of the brain. The scientists explain that these right-sided areas act as a supportive neural system when the brain faces difficult mental tasks.

“We found that both left and right hemispheres, which work during reading mostly for proper linguistic functions and supportive roles, respectively, are less engaged when manga contents are well understood through reading on paper, compared with digital reading,” Sakai told PsyPost. “This neuroscientific result is the first to show such an immediate effect of reading on paper, which would eventually change your brain.”

The amount of activity in these right frontal regions directly correlated with how accurately the tablet readers answered the questions. This indicates that tablet readers had to rely on excessive mental integration processes to achieve the same level of accuracy as the paper readers. The scientists also noticed heightened activity in a brain region called the right angular gyrus among the tablet users. This region is associated with processing spatial relationships, suggesting the tablet readers had to work harder to reconstruct the visual layout of the comic book panels in their minds.

As with all research, there are some limitations. The study specifically used visual narratives, and a reader might wonder if plain text novels would produce the exact same brain patterns.

“The same results would be obtained for reading a novel or other conventional texts, because story lines and contextual flow are basically the same among them,” Sakai said. “One important advantage of using manga stories is that manga has visual narratives, which provide rich pictorial information that facilitates the comprehension of scenes.”

Another factor is the physical difference between the devices themselves. The paper books reflected light from the room, while the tablets used a glowing backlight. Flipping a physical page also takes a fraction of a second longer than tapping a digital screen, which might subtly alter the reading rhythm and give the brain an extra moment to process information.

A reader might misinterpret these findings to mean that digital reading prevents learning, but the accuracy rates show that tablet readers still understood the material. They simply required more cognitive effort and time to reach that understanding. The paper format tends to make the reading experience smoother by providing a consistent physical anchor for the memory.

Future research will likely explore these variables in greater detail and expand to other forms of media interaction. “Using a similar method, we are now examining any effects of writing with a pen or a keyboard,” Sakai said. “This would be a natural next step for comparing paper and electronic devices.”

The study, “Manga reading on paper vs. digital devices: Prospective effects on core and supportive integration processes in the brain,” was authored by Keita Umejima, Yuki Sunada, and Kuniyoshi L. Sakai.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/neuroscientists-discover-previously-unknown-cognitive-benefits-of-reading-physical-books/

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DATE: June 13, 2026 at 06:00AM
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TITLE: Neuroscientists discover previously unknown cognitive benefits of reading physical books

URL: https://www.psypost.org/neuroscientists-discover-previously-unknown-cognitive-benefits-of-reading-physical-books/

A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE provides evidence that reading comic books on physical paper helps the brain absorb and connect story details more easily than reading on a digital tablet. The findings suggest that physical books provide stable spatial and tactile cues that lower the brain’s workload when a reader tries to recall complex plot points later. This research offers fresh insights into how digital reading formats might subtly alter human reading comprehension and memory.

Reading a book involves a complex series of mental tasks. A reader must decode words, interpret pictures, and connect new information to what they already know. To do this efficiently, the human brain builds what scientists call a story schema. A story schema is an internal mental framework that helps a person organize characters, timelines, and spatial relationships as a narrative unfolds.

The physical format of a book might play a hidden role in constructing this mental framework. Scientists suspect that physical paper provides reliable sensory anchors, such as the thickness of the pages on either side of the binding and the fixed location of text on a page. These physical anchors might help the brain map out the narrative in a physical space. When reading on a digital screen, these sensory anchors are largely absent because the screen remains physically identical while the text simply changes.

The authors of the current study wanted to know if the cognitive effects of paper extend to reading visual narratives. They chose Japanese manga, which are comic books with rich visual and narrative structures, to see how different reading mediums affect brain activity.

Kuniyoshi L. Sakai, a professor in the Department of Basic Science at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo, explains that the study originated from an industry question. “This research project began with an inquiry from COAMIX INC., one of the major publishers of Japanese manga, whether we could investigate any values of paper books scientifically,” Sakai said. “As a neuroscientist working on the human brain, especially on its language function, I decided to compare brain activation between paper and digital reading.”

To conduct the experiment, the researchers had to overcome a technical hurdle related to measuring brain activity. Magnetic resonance imaging scanners use powerful magnets to track blood flow in the brain, which provides a real-time map of neural activity.

“When comparing a paper book and an electronic tablet, we cannot bring the latter device into the scanning room, because the scanner is a huge magnet,” Sakai said. “Then, I had an idea of scanning the brain after one’s reading a book on paper or tablet. This was a long shot, and the right results we obtained surprised us.”

The researchers recruited 25 right-handed university students who were native Japanese speakers. The scientists used a popular manga series where each story is split into two halves. These halves depict the exact same events but from the different perspectives of a couple experiencing conflicting feelings. This unique format allowed the scientists to test how well readers integrate information across different viewpoints.

Participants were randomly assigned to read the first half of a manga story on either a physical paper book or an electronic tablet. This reading took place in a normal room outside of the scanning machinery. The scientists ensured that both the paper book and the tablet were similar in physical size. They also used light meters to match the brightness of the room’s light reflecting off the paper with the backlight shining from the tablet.

After finishing the first half, the participants entered the scanner. While lying inside the machine, participants wore special digital goggles to read the second half of the story. During this reading phase, the participants periodically rated their empathy toward the characters on a four-point scale to ensure they were actively engaged with the plot.

Finally, while still inside the scanner, the participants answered multiple-choice questions about the story they had just finished. The scientists divided these questions into two distinct categories. Set one included questions that could be answered just by remembering the first half of the story. Set two contained more demanding questions that required the reader to combine details from both halves of the narrative.

The behavioral measurements showed that participants answered the questions with similar accuracy regardless of the medium they initially used. However, their response times differed based on their original reading format. When answering the complex questions from set two, participants who read the first half on a tablet took longer to respond than those who read on paper. The scientists noted that tablet readers required more time to mentally piece together the two halves of the story.

The brain scans provided evidence that matched these behavioral differences. When participants read the second half of the story, those who had started the story on paper showed reduced activity in the left lateral premotor cortex and inferior frontal gyrus. These specific left-sided brain regions are deeply involved in language processing and narrative integration. Lower activity in these areas suggests that the brain did not have to work as hard to understand the new information.

Because the paper readers had already built a strong mental foundation during the first half of the story, integrating the second half required less mental effort. In contrast, tablet readers showed much higher activation in these exact same left frontal brain regions. When answering the complex set two questions, tablet readers also showed increased activity in the right frontal regions of the brain. The scientists explain that these right-sided areas act as a supportive neural system when the brain faces difficult mental tasks.

“We found that both left and right hemispheres, which work during reading mostly for proper linguistic functions and supportive roles, respectively, are less engaged when manga contents are well understood through reading on paper, compared with digital reading,” Sakai told PsyPost. “This neuroscientific result is the first to show such an immediate effect of reading on paper, which would eventually change your brain.”

The amount of activity in these right frontal regions directly correlated with how accurately the tablet readers answered the questions. This indicates that tablet readers had to rely on excessive mental integration processes to achieve the same level of accuracy as the paper readers. The scientists also noticed heightened activity in a brain region called the right angular gyrus among the tablet users. This region is associated with processing spatial relationships, suggesting the tablet readers had to work harder to reconstruct the visual layout of the comic book panels in their minds.

As with all research, there are some limitations. The study specifically used visual narratives, and a reader might wonder if plain text novels would produce the exact same brain patterns.

“The same results would be obtained for reading a novel or other conventional texts, because story lines and contextual flow are basically the same among them,” Sakai said. “One important advantage of using manga stories is that manga has visual narratives, which provide rich pictorial information that facilitates the comprehension of scenes.”

Another factor is the physical difference between the devices themselves. The paper books reflected light from the room, while the tablets used a glowing backlight. Flipping a physical page also takes a fraction of a second longer than tapping a digital screen, which might subtly alter the reading rhythm and give the brain an extra moment to process information.

A reader might misinterpret these findings to mean that digital reading prevents learning, but the accuracy rates show that tablet readers still understood the material. They simply required more cognitive effort and time to reach that understanding. The paper format tends to make the reading experience smoother by providing a consistent physical anchor for the memory.

Future research will likely explore these variables in greater detail and expand to other forms of media interaction. “Using a similar method, we are now examining any effects of writing with a pen or a keyboard,” Sakai said. “This would be a natural next step for comparing paper and electronic devices.”

The study, “Manga reading on paper vs. digital devices: Prospective effects on core and supportive integration processes in the brain,” was authored by Keita Umejima, Yuki Sunada, and Kuniyoshi L. Sakai.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/neuroscientists-discover-previously-unknown-cognitive-benefits-of-reading-physical-books/

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A groundbreaking new connectome maps every neural connection in an adult fruit fly’s central nervous system, creating an unprecedented view of how the brain and body work together. The findings suggest that complex behaviors emerge from distributed local circuits rather than a single central controller, offering new clues about intelligence, movement, and brain function.

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Memory is not reliable but changes to fit present circumstances

“Our memory is not like a video camera,” Bridge said. “Your memory reframes and edits events to create a story to fit your current world. It’s built to be current.” (source)

The unreliability of human memory is not a new topic, but this study fairly convincingly shows how our memories conform to what we are doing and/or how we have been using them.

One can plausibly extrapolate from this that humans change how they remember and understand themselves and others based on the data of now. A moment of extraneous frustration, for example, may cause us to see someone nearby us in a different light, through no fault of theirs.

If our frustration is with how we are being (mis)understood or with our difficulty in expressing our thoughts, the implications for how we understand the person we are speaking with may be even more serious.

Experienced FIML partners will surely have realized that even minor misunderstandings can lead to large acts of “reframing” events in an emotional way that can be seriously distorted.

Beyond innocent misunderstandings (which, unfortunately, can have tragic consequences), this area of shifting memories is where a good deal of interpersonal abuse occurs. In the worst cases, one (or both) partners abuse normal human malleability to lie. In less bad cases, one (or both) partners is easily excited by their own distortions and quickly comes to believe them, effectively lying to themselves as well as their partner.

In other cases, individuals or entire groups of people may decide to tell a significant lie (slanted history, for example) and then hurl their lie passionately at others. This frequently causes the person being lied to to react with shame or concern based on the liars’ emotional display and not on the facts of the matter. A person being subjected to such verbal abuse will often conclude that if the other person is so passionate, they must have a serious point that should be considered; and this can cause large distortions of well-known facts in the victim’s mind.

All of this is a major reason the Human Realm is characterized by delusion and a large part of Buddhist practice is geared toward removing delusion.

Memory is not reliable but changes to fit present circumstances

“Our memory is not like a video camera,” Bridge said. “Your memory reframes and edits events to create a story to fit your current world. It’s built to be current.” (source)

The unreliability of human memory is not a new topic, but this study fairly convincingly shows how our memories conform to what we are doing and/or how we have been using them.

One can plausibly extrapolate from this that humans change how they remember and understand themselves and others based on the data of now. A moment of extraneous frustration, for example, may cause us to see someone nearby us in a different light, through no fault of theirs.

If our frustration is with how we are being (mis)understood or with our difficulty in expressing our thoughts, the implications for how we understand the person we are speaking with may be even more serious.

Experienced FIML partners will surely have realized that even minor misunderstandings can lead to large acts of “reframing” events in an emotional way that can be seriously distorted.

Beyond innocent misunderstandings (which, unfortunately, can have tragic consequences), this area of shifting memories is where a good deal of interpersonal abuse occurs. In the worst cases, one (or both) partners abuse normal human malleability to lie. In less bad cases, one (or both) partners is easily excited by their own distortions and quickly comes to believe them, effectively lying to themselves as well as their partner.

In other cases, individuals or entire groups of people may decide to tell a significant lie (slanted history, for example) and then hurl their lie passionately at others. This frequently causes the person being lied to to react with shame or concern based on the liars’ emotional display and not on the facts of the matter. A person being subjected to such verbal abuse will often conclude that if the other person is so passionate, they must have a serious point that should be considered; and this can cause large distortions of well-known facts in the victim’s mind.

All of this is a major reason the Human Realm is characterized by delusion and a large part of Buddhist practice is geared toward removing delusion.

Memory is not reliable but changes to fit present circumstances

“Our memory is not like a video camera,” Bridge said. “Your memory reframes and edits events to create a story to fit your current world. It’s built to be current.” (source)

The unreliability of human memory is not a new topic, but this study fairly convincingly shows how our memories conform to what we are doing and/or how we have been using them.

One can plausibly extrapolate from this that humans change how they remember and understand themselves and others based on the data of now. A moment of extraneous frustration, for example, may cause us to see someone nearby us in a different light, through no fault of theirs.

If our frustration is with how we are being (mis)understood or with our difficulty in expressing our thoughts, the implications for how we understand the person we are speaking with may be even more serious.

Experienced FIML partners will surely have realized that even minor misunderstandings can lead to large acts of “reframing” events in an emotional way that can be seriously distorted.

Beyond innocent misunderstandings (which, unfortunately, can have tragic consequences), this area of shifting memories is where a good deal of interpersonal abuse occurs. In the worst cases, one (or both) partners abuse normal human malleability to lie. In less bad cases, one (or both) partners is easily excited by their own distortions and quickly comes to believe them, effectively lying to themselves as well as their partner.

In other cases, individuals or entire groups of people may decide to tell a significant lie (slanted history, for example) and then hurl their lie passionately at others. This frequently causes the person being lied to to react with shame or concern based on the liars’ emotional display and not on the facts of the matter. A person being subjected to such verbal abuse will often conclude that if the other person is so passionate, they must have a serious point that should be considered; and this can cause large distortions of well-known facts in the victim’s mind.

All of this is a major reason the Human Realm is characterized by delusion and a large part of Buddhist practice is geared toward removing delusion.

Memory is not reliable but changes to fit present circumstances

“Our memory is not like a video camera,” Bridge said. “Your memory reframes and edits events to create a story to fit your current world. It’s built to be current.” (source)

The unreliability of human memory is not a new topic, but this study fairly convincingly shows how our memories conform to what we are doing and/or how we have been using them.

One can plausibly extrapolate from this that humans change how they remember and understand themselves and others based on the data of now. A moment of extraneous frustration, for example, may cause us to see someone nearby us in a different light, through no fault of theirs.

If our frustration is with how we are being (mis)understood or with our difficulty in expressing our thoughts, the implications for how we understand the person we are speaking with may be even more serious.

Experienced FIML partners will surely have realized that even minor misunderstandings can lead to large acts of “reframing” events in an emotional way that can be seriously distorted.

Beyond innocent misunderstandings (which, unfortunately, can have tragic consequences), this area of shifting memories is where a good deal of interpersonal abuse occurs. In the worst cases, one (or both) partners abuse normal human malleability to lie. In less bad cases, one (or both) partners is easily excited by their own distortions and quickly comes to believe them, effectively lying to themselves as well as their partner.

In other cases, individuals or entire groups of people may decide to tell a significant lie (slanted history, for example) and then hurl their lie passionately at others. This frequently causes the person being lied to to react with shame or concern based on the liars’ emotional display and not on the facts of the matter. A person being subjected to such verbal abuse will often conclude that if the other person is so passionate, they must have a serious point that should be considered; and this can cause large distortions of well-known facts in the victim’s mind.

All of this is a major reason the Human Realm is characterized by delusion and a large part of Buddhist practice is geared toward removing delusion.

Memory is not reliable but changes to fit present circumstances

“Our memory is not like a video camera,” Bridge said. “Your memory reframes and edits events to create a story to fit your current world. It’s built to be current.” (source)

The unreliability of human memory is not a new topic, but this study fairly convincingly shows how our memories conform to what we are doing and/or how we have been using them.

One can plausibly extrapolate from this that humans change how they remember and understand themselves and others based on the data of now. A moment of extraneous frustration, for example, may cause us to see someone nearby us in a different light, through no fault of theirs.

If our frustration is with how we are being (mis)understood or with our difficulty in expressing our thoughts, the implications for how we understand the person we are speaking with may be even more serious.

Experienced FIML partners will surely have realized that even minor misunderstandings can lead to large acts of “reframing” events in an emotional way that can be seriously distorted.

Beyond innocent misunderstandings (which, unfortunately, can have tragic consequences), this area of shifting memories is where a good deal of interpersonal abuse occurs. In the worst cases, one (or both) partners abuse normal human malleability to lie. In less bad cases, one (or both) partners is easily excited by their own distortions and quickly comes to believe them, effectively lying to themselves as well as their partner.

In other cases, individuals or entire groups of people may decide to tell a significant lie (slanted history, for example) and then hurl their lie passionately at others. This frequently causes the person being lied to to react with shame or concern based on the liars’ emotional display and not on the facts of the matter. A person being subjected to such verbal abuse will often conclude that if the other person is so passionate, they must have a serious point that should be considered; and this can cause large distortions of well-known facts in the victim’s mind.

All of this is a major reason the Human Realm is characterized by delusion and a large part of Buddhist practice is geared toward removing delusion.

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Disruption of neurotic response in FIML practice

By analyzing minute emotional reactions in real-time during normal conversation, FIML practice disrupts the consolidation, or more often the reconsolidation, of “neurotic” responses.

In FIML, a neurotic response is defined as “an emotional response based on a misinterpretation.” The misinterpretation in question can be incipient (just starting) to long-standing (been a habit for years).

The response is disrupted by FIML practice and, thus, tends not to consolidate or reconsolidate, especially after several instances of learning that it is not valid.

A neurotic response is a response based on memory. The following study on fear memories supports the above explanation of FIML practice.

Memories become labile when recalled. In humans and rodents alike, reactivated fear memories can be attenuated by disrupting reconsolidation with extinction training. Using functional brain imaging, we found that, after a conditioned fear memory was formed, reactivation and reconsolidation left a memory trace in the basolateral amygdala that predicted subsequent fear expression and was tightly coupled to activity in the fear circuit of the brain. In contrast, reactivation followed by disrupted reconsolidation suppressed fear, abolished the memory trace, and attenuated fear-circuit connectivity. Thus, as previously demonstrated in rodents, fear memory suppression resulting from behavioral disruption of reconsolidation is amygdala-dependent also in humans, which supports an evolutionarily conserved memory-update mechanism.

~Disruption of Reconsolidation Erases a Fear Memory Trace in the Human Amygdala

FIML practice works by partners consciously and cooperatively disrupting reconsolidation (and initial consolidation) of neurotic memory (and associated behaviors). FIML both extirpates habitual neurotic responses and also prevents the formation of new neurotic responses through conscious disruption of memory consolidation.

FIML probably works as well as it does because humans have “an evolutionarily conserved memory-update mechanism” that favors more truth. Obvious examples of this update mechanism can be seen in many simple mistakes. For instance, if you think the capital of New York State is New York City and someone shows that it is Albany, you will likely correct your mistake immediately with little or no fuss.

Since FIML focuses on small mistakes made between partners, corrections are rarely more difficult than the above example though they may be accompanied by a greater sense of relief. For example, if you thought that maybe your partner was mad at you but then find (through a FIML query) that they are not, your sense of relief may be considerable.

Disruption of neurotic response in FIML practice

By analyzing minute emotional reactions in real-time during normal conversation, FIML practice disrupts the consolidation, or more often the reconsolidation, of “neurotic” responses.

In FIML, a neurotic response is defined as “an emotional response based on a misinterpretation.” The misinterpretation in question can be incipient (just starting) to long-standing (been a habit for years).

The response is disrupted by FIML practice and, thus, tends not to consolidate or reconsolidate, especially after several instances of learning that it is not valid.

A neurotic response is a response based on memory. The following study on fear memories supports the above explanation of FIML practice.

Memories become labile when recalled. In humans and rodents alike, reactivated fear memories can be attenuated by disrupting reconsolidation with extinction training. Using functional brain imaging, we found that, after a conditioned fear memory was formed, reactivation and reconsolidation left a memory trace in the basolateral amygdala that predicted subsequent fear expression and was tightly coupled to activity in the fear circuit of the brain. In contrast, reactivation followed by disrupted reconsolidation suppressed fear, abolished the memory trace, and attenuated fear-circuit connectivity. Thus, as previously demonstrated in rodents, fear memory suppression resulting from behavioral disruption of reconsolidation is amygdala-dependent also in humans, which supports an evolutionarily conserved memory-update mechanism.

~Disruption of Reconsolidation Erases a Fear Memory Trace in the Human Amygdala

FIML practice works by partners consciously and cooperatively disrupting reconsolidation (and initial consolidation) of neurotic memory (and associated behaviors). FIML both extirpates habitual neurotic responses and also prevents the formation of new neurotic responses through conscious disruption of memory consolidation.

FIML probably works as well as it does because humans have “an evolutionarily conserved memory-update mechanism” that favors more truth. Obvious examples of this update mechanism can be seen in many simple mistakes. For instance, if you think the capital of New York State is New York City and someone shows that it is Albany, you will likely correct your mistake immediately with little or no fuss.

Since FIML focuses on small mistakes made between partners, corrections are rarely more difficult than the above example though they may be accompanied by a greater sense of relief. For example, if you thought that maybe your partner was mad at you but then find (through a FIML query) that they are not, your sense of relief may be considerable.

Disruption of neurotic response in FIML practice

By analyzing minute emotional reactions in real-time during normal conversation, FIML practice disrupts the consolidation, or more often the reconsolidation, of “neurotic” responses.

In FIML, a neurotic response is defined as “an emotional response based on a misinterpretation.” The misinterpretation in question can be incipient (just starting) to long-standing (been a habit for years).

The response is disrupted by FIML practice and, thus, tends not to consolidate or reconsolidate, especially after several instances of learning that it is not valid.

A neurotic response is a response based on memory. The following study on fear memories supports the above explanation of FIML practice.

Memories become labile when recalled. In humans and rodents alike, reactivated fear memories can be attenuated by disrupting reconsolidation with extinction training. Using functional brain imaging, we found that, after a conditioned fear memory was formed, reactivation and reconsolidation left a memory trace in the basolateral amygdala that predicted subsequent fear expression and was tightly coupled to activity in the fear circuit of the brain. In contrast, reactivation followed by disrupted reconsolidation suppressed fear, abolished the memory trace, and attenuated fear-circuit connectivity. Thus, as previously demonstrated in rodents, fear memory suppression resulting from behavioral disruption of reconsolidation is amygdala-dependent also in humans, which supports an evolutionarily conserved memory-update mechanism.

~Disruption of Reconsolidation Erases a Fear Memory Trace in the Human Amygdala

FIML practice works by partners consciously and cooperatively disrupting reconsolidation (and initial consolidation) of neurotic memory (and associated behaviors). FIML both extirpates habitual neurotic responses and also prevents the formation of new neurotic responses through conscious disruption of memory consolidation.

FIML probably works as well as it does because humans have “an evolutionarily conserved memory-update mechanism” that favors more truth. Obvious examples of this update mechanism can be seen in many simple mistakes. For instance, if you think the capital of New York State is New York City and someone shows that it is Albany, you will likely correct your mistake immediately with little or no fuss.

Since FIML focuses on small mistakes made between partners, corrections are rarely more difficult than the above example though they may be accompanied by a greater sense of relief. For example, if you thought that maybe your partner was mad at you but then find (through a FIML query) that they are not, your sense of relief may be considerable.

Disruption of neurotic response in FIML practice

By analyzing minute emotional reactions in real-time during normal conversation, FIML practice disrupts the consolidation, or more often the reconsolidation, of “neurotic” responses.

In FIML, a neurotic response is defined as “an emotional response based on a misinterpretation.” The misinterpretation in question can be incipient (just starting) to long-standing (been a habit for years).

The response is disrupted by FIML practice and, thus, tends not to consolidate or reconsolidate, especially after several instances of learning that it is not valid.

A neurotic response is a response based on memory. The following study on fear memories supports the above explanation of FIML practice.

Memories become labile when recalled. In humans and rodents alike, reactivated fear memories can be attenuated by disrupting reconsolidation with extinction training. Using functional brain imaging, we found that, after a conditioned fear memory was formed, reactivation and reconsolidation left a memory trace in the basolateral amygdala that predicted subsequent fear expression and was tightly coupled to activity in the fear circuit of the brain. In contrast, reactivation followed by disrupted reconsolidation suppressed fear, abolished the memory trace, and attenuated fear-circuit connectivity. Thus, as previously demonstrated in rodents, fear memory suppression resulting from behavioral disruption of reconsolidation is amygdala-dependent also in humans, which supports an evolutionarily conserved memory-update mechanism.

~Disruption of Reconsolidation Erases a Fear Memory Trace in the Human Amygdala

FIML practice works by partners consciously and cooperatively disrupting reconsolidation (and initial consolidation) of neurotic memory (and associated behaviors). FIML both extirpates habitual neurotic responses and also prevents the formation of new neurotic responses through conscious disruption of memory consolidation.

FIML probably works as well as it does because humans have “an evolutionarily conserved memory-update mechanism” that favors more truth. Obvious examples of this update mechanism can be seen in many simple mistakes. For instance, if you think the capital of New York State is New York City and someone shows that it is Albany, you will likely correct your mistake immediately with little or no fuss.

Since FIML focuses on small mistakes made between partners, corrections are rarely more difficult than the above example though they may be accompanied by a greater sense of relief. For example, if you thought that maybe your partner was mad at you but then find (through a FIML query) that they are not, your sense of relief may be considerable.

Disruption of neurotic response in FIML practice

By analyzing minute emotional reactions in real-time during normal conversation, FIML practice disrupts the consolidation, or more often the reconsolidation, of “neurotic” responses.

In FIML, a neurotic response is defined as “an emotional response based on a misinterpretation.” The misinterpretation in question can be incipient (just starting) to long-standing (been a habit for years).

The response is disrupted by FIML practice and, thus, tends not to consolidate or reconsolidate, especially after several instances of learning that it is not valid.

A neurotic response is a response based on memory. The following study on fear memories supports the above explanation of FIML practice.

Memories become labile when recalled. In humans and rodents alike, reactivated fear memories can be attenuated by disrupting reconsolidation with extinction training. Using functional brain imaging, we found that, after a conditioned fear memory was formed, reactivation and reconsolidation left a memory trace in the basolateral amygdala that predicted subsequent fear expression and was tightly coupled to activity in the fear circuit of the brain. In contrast, reactivation followed by disrupted reconsolidation suppressed fear, abolished the memory trace, and attenuated fear-circuit connectivity. Thus, as previously demonstrated in rodents, fear memory suppression resulting from behavioral disruption of reconsolidation is amygdala-dependent also in humans, which supports an evolutionarily conserved memory-update mechanism.

~Disruption of Reconsolidation Erases a Fear Memory Trace in the Human Amygdala

FIML practice works by partners consciously and cooperatively disrupting reconsolidation (and initial consolidation) of neurotic memory (and associated behaviors). FIML both extirpates habitual neurotic responses and also prevents the formation of new neurotic responses through conscious disruption of memory consolidation.

FIML probably works as well as it does because humans have “an evolutionarily conserved memory-update mechanism” that favors more truth. Obvious examples of this update mechanism can be seen in many simple mistakes. For instance, if you think the capital of New York State is New York City and someone shows that it is Albany, you will likely correct your mistake immediately with little or no fuss.

Since FIML focuses on small mistakes made between partners, corrections are rarely more difficult than the above example though they may be accompanied by a greater sense of relief. For example, if you thought that maybe your partner was mad at you but then find (through a FIML query) that they are not, your sense of relief may be considerable.

The Default Mode Network activates during self-referential thought. Repeated cycles of noticing attention has drifted from a present anchor - and returning without judgment - measurably reduce its activity over time, along with amygdala reactivity. Mindfulness is not a state. It is a trainable attentional cycle.

🔗 https://neuroviaxacademy.com/mindfulness-guide/

#BrainScience #Mindfulness

The Default Mode Network activates during self-referential thought. Repeated cycles of noticing attention has drifted from a present anchor - and returning without judgment - measurably reduce its activity over time, along with amygdala reactivity. Mindfulness is not a state. It is a trainable attentional cycle.

🔗 https://neuroviaxacademy.com/mindfulness-guide/

#BrainScience #Mindfulness

The Default Mode Network activates during self-referential thought. Repeated cycles of noticing attention has drifted from a present anchor - and returning without judgment - measurably reduce its activity over time, along with amygdala reactivity. Mindfulness is not a state. It is a trainable attentional cycle.

🔗 https://neuroviaxacademy.com/mindfulness-guide/

#BrainScience #Mindfulness

The Default Mode Network activates during self-referential thought. Repeated cycles of noticing attention has drifted from a present anchor - and returning without judgment - measurably reduce its activity over time, along with amygdala reactivity. Mindfulness is not a state. It is a trainable attentional cycle.

🔗 https://neuroviaxacademy.com/mindfulness-guide/

#BrainScience #Mindfulness

The Default Mode Network activates during self-referential thought. Repeated cycles of noticing attention has drifted from a present anchor - and returning without judgment - measurably reduce its activity over time, along with amygdala reactivity. Mindfulness is not a state. It is a trainable attentional cycle.

🔗 https://neuroviaxacademy.com/mindfulness-guide/

#BrainScience #Mindfulness

REALITY'S FRAGILITY: THE BRAIN AS THE LENS OF EXISTENCE

Learn how the brain interprets signals to create your reality, not just see the world directly. Understand the science behind perception.

#BrainScience, #Perception, #Neuroscience, #MindBody, #Reality

https://newsletter.tf/brain-interprets-signals-creates-reality-not-direct/

REALITY'S FRAGILITY: THE BRAIN AS THE LENS OF EXISTENCE

Learn how the brain interprets signals to create your reality, not just see the world directly. Understand the science behind perception.

#BrainScience, #Perception, #Neuroscience, #MindBody, #Reality

https://newsletter.tf/brain-interprets-signals-creates-reality-not-direct/

REALITY'S FRAGILITY: THE BRAIN AS THE LENS OF EXISTENCE

Learn how the brain interprets signals to create your reality, not just see the world directly. Understand the science behind perception.

#BrainScience, #Perception, #Neuroscience, #MindBody, #Reality

https://newsletter.tf/brain-interprets-signals-creates-reality-not-direct/

REALITY'S FRAGILITY: THE BRAIN AS THE LENS OF EXISTENCE

Learn how the brain interprets signals to create your reality, not just see the world directly. Understand the science behind perception.

#BrainScience, #Perception, #Neuroscience, #MindBody, #Reality

https://newsletter.tf/brain-interprets-signals-creates-reality-not-direct/

Your brain turns signals into reality. This is different from seeing the world as it truly is.

#BrainScience, #Perception, #Neuroscience, #MindBody, #Reality
https://newsletter.tf/brain-interprets-signals-creates-reality-not-direct/

Your brain turns signals into reality. This is different from seeing the world as it truly is.

#BrainScience, #Perception, #Neuroscience, #MindBody, #Reality
https://newsletter.tf/brain-interprets-signals-creates-reality-not-direct/

Your brain turns signals into reality. This is different from seeing the world as it truly is.

#BrainScience, #Perception, #Neuroscience, #MindBody, #Reality
https://newsletter.tf/brain-interprets-signals-creates-reality-not-direct/

Your brain turns signals into reality. This is different from seeing the world as it truly is.

#BrainScience, #Perception, #Neuroscience, #MindBody, #Reality
https://newsletter.tf/brain-interprets-signals-creates-reality-not-direct/