The Brain Club Archive 2011 First Half

2011 First half: April 2011-September 2011

1st(#291) :2011/4/1(Fri): Pre-Cherry Blossom Party

• We had a pre-cherry blossom party in Kamakura.

2nd(#292) :2011/4/8(Fri): Journal Club

• T. Takano reharsed to make a presentation at the upcomming Ph.D. candidate seminar.

• Ready both to your and to my hands: mapping the action space of others
  Costantini M, Committeri G, Sinigaglia C.
  PLoS One 6(4): e17923. (2011)
  [Full Text]
  Report T. Ishikawa

• Enhanced divergent thinking and creativity in musicians: A behavioral and near-infrared spectroscopy study.
  Gibson C, Folley BS, Park S.
  Brain Cogn. 69(1):162-9. (2009)
  [Abstract]
  Report E. Hoshino

3rd(#293) :2011/4/22(Fri): Journal Club

• T. Takano reharsed to make a presentation at the upcomming Ph.D. candidate seminar.

• Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups
  Woolley AW, Chabris CF, Pentland A, Hashmi N, Malone TW.
  Science 330(6004):686-8. (2010)
  [Abstract]
  Report A. Onzo

• Coping with Chaos: How Disordered Contexts Promote Stereotyping and Discrimination
  Stapel DA, Lindenberg S.
  Science. 332(6026):251-3. (2011)
  [Abstract]
  Note: This article has been retracted. [See, e.g., Nature News]
  Report A. Onzo

• Mental Imagery of Self-Location during Spontaneous and Active Self–Other Interactions: An Electrical Neuroimaging Study
  Thirioux B, Mercier MR, Jorland G, Berthoz A, Blanke O.
  J Neurosci. 30(21):7202-14. (2010)
  [Full Text]
  Report T. Sudo

4th(#294) :2011/4/26(Tue): Journal Club & Research Talk

• T. Takano reharsed to make a presentation at the upcomming Ph.D. candidate seminar.

• Body schema and body image--pros and cons
  de Vignemont F.
  Neuropsychologia. 48(3):669-80. (2010)
  [Abstract]
  Report K. Mogi

• Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) Do Recognize Themselves in the Mirror: Implications for the Evolution of Self-Recognition
  Rajala AZ, Reininger KR, Lancaster KM, Populin LC.
  PLoS One. 5(9). pii: e12865. (2010)
  [Full Text]
  Report K. Mogi

• Perception of duration - Internally triggered action versus Externally triggered action.
  Research Talk T. Herai

• Action, binding, and awareness
  Haggard, P and Aschersleben, G and Gehrke, J and Prinz, W
  OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: 266 - 285. (2002)
  [Abstract]
  Report T. Herai

5th(#295) :2011/5/5(Thu): Special meeting

• We went to see S. Nozawa and had his housewarming party.

6th(#296) :2011/5/9(Mon): Guest's Talk, Journal Club & Research Talk

• Dr. Yoshihide Tamori at Kanazawa Institute of Technology talked about an equation of population density current.

• Human Tears Contain a Chemosignal.
  Gelstein S, Yeshurun Y, Rozenkrantz L, Shushan S, Frumin I, Roth Y, Sobel N.
  Science. 331(6014):226-30. (2011)
  [Abstract]
  Report T. Takano

• Reactions to discrimination, stigmatization, ostracism, and other forms of interpersonal rejection: a multimotive model.
  Smart Richman L, Leary MR.
  Psychol Rev. 3116(2):365-83. (2009)
  [Full Text]
  Research Talk A. Onzo

7th(#297) :2011/5/12(Thu): Journal Club

• Internally Generated Preactivation of Single Neurons in Human Medial Frontal Cortex Predicts Volition
  Fried I, Mukamel R, Kreiman G.
  Neuron. 69(3):548-62. (2011)
  [Full Text]
  Report T. Herai

• Thought for Food: Imagined Consumption Reduces Actual Consumption.
  Morewedge CK, Huh YE, Vosgerau J.
  Science. 330(6010):1530-3. (2010)
  [Abstract]
  Report T. Sekine

8th(#298) :2011/5/24(Tue): Journal Club

• How social influence can undermine the wisdom of crowd effect.
  Lorenz J, Rauhut H, Schweitzer F, Helbing D.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 May 16. [Epub ahead of print]
  [Full Text]
  Report T. Ishikawa

9th(#299) :2011/6/3(Fri): Guest's Talk

Dr. Ilya Farber visited our laboratory to make presentations on animal consciousness and choice blindness.

10th(#300) :2011/6/8(Wed): Presentation Practice for ASSC

T. Ishikawa and M. Toshima prepared their presentation and we discussed about them for the annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

[Conference] :June 9-12, 2011: ASSC 15

Some of us tripped to Kyoto for the conference presentation at 15th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

Related Link: ASSC 15

11th(#301) :2011/6/17(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

• Of Black Swans and Tossed Coins: Is the Description-Experience Gap in Risky Choice Limited to Rare Events?
  Elliot A. Ludvig, Marcia L. Spetch
  PLoS One. 6(6): e20262. (2011)
  [Full Text]
  Report A. Onzo

• The collective intelligence genome
  Thomas W. Malon, Laubacher R, Dellarocas C.
  MIT Sloan Management Review. 51(3): 20-32. (2010)
  [Full Text]
  Report K. Mogi

• Mental transformation between the self and others
  Research Talk T. Sudo

12th(#302) :2011/6/24(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

• What is Brain Science?
  Research Talk E. Hoshino

• Extraneous factors in judicial decisions.
  Danziger S, Levav J, Avnaim-Pesso L.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108(17):6889-92. (2011)
  [Abstract]
  Report T. Takano

• Two hands are better than one: A new assessment method and a new interpretation of the non-visual illusion of self-touch.
  White RC, Aimola Davies AM, Davies M.
  Conscious Cogn. (2011) [Epub ahead of print]
  [Abstract]
  Report T. Takano

• Hand dominance influences the processing of observed bodies.
  Gardner MR, Potts R.
  Brain Cogn. 73(1):35-40. (2010)
  [Abstract]
  Report T. Sudo

13th(#303) :2011/7/1(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

• Altruism, Spite, and Greenbeards
  West SA, Gardner A.
  Science. 327(5971):1341-4. (2010)
  [Abstract]
  Research Talk K. Mogi

• Music and spatial task performance
  FH. Rauscher, GL. Shaw, CN. KY
  Nature. 3365(6447):611. (1993)
  [Full Text]
  Report T. Sekine

• The Visual Impact Of Gossip
  Anderson E, Siegel EH, Bliss-Moreau E, Barrett LF.
  Science. 332(6036):1446-8. (2011)
  [Abstract]
  Report E. Hoshino

14th(#304) :2011/7/22(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

• Pure Reasoning in 12-Month-Old Infants as Probabilistic Inference
  Téglás E, Vul E, Girotto V, Gonzalez M, Tenenbaum JB, Bonatti LL.
  Science. 332(6033):1054-9. (2011)
  [Abstract]
  Report A. Onzo

• The Angry Brain: Neural Correlates of Anger, Angry Rumination, and Aggressive Personality
  Denson TF, Pedersen WC, Ronquillo J, Nandy AS.
  J Cogn Neurosci. 21(4):734-44. (2009)
  [Abstract]
  Report T. Herai

• Facilitate Insight by Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation
  Chi RP, Snyder AW.
  PLoS One. 6(2):e16655. (2011)
  [Full Text]
  Report T. Ishikawa

• Focusing on counterfactual events and “outliers”
  Research Talk T. Ishikawa

15th(#305) :2011/7/29(Fri): Journal Club

• Following the Crowd: Brain Substrates of Long-Term Memory Conformity
  Edelson M, Sharot T, Dolan RJ, Dudai Y.
  Science. 333(6038):108-11. (2011)
  [Full Text]
  Report T. Takano

• Automatic imitation in a strategic context: players of rock-paper-scissors imitate opponents' gestures.
  Cook R, Bird G, Lünser G, Huck S, Heyes C.
  Proc Biol Sci. (2011)
  [Full Text]
  Report T. Takano

• Identity: Key to Children’s Understanding of Belief
  Perner J, Mauer MC, Hildenbrand M.
  Science. 333(6041):474-7. (2011)
  [Abstract]
  Report T. Ishikawa

16th(#306) :2011/8/26(Fri): Journal Club & Guest Talk

• Motor imagery of gait: a quantitative approach.
  Bakker M, de Lange FP, Stevens JA, Toni I, Bloem BR.
  Exp Brain Res. 179(3):497-504. (2007)
  [Abstract]
  Report T. Sudo

• Self-recognition of avatar motion: how do I know it's me?
  Cook R, Johnston A, Heyes C.
  Proc Biol Sci. (2011) [Epub ahead of print]
  [Abstract]
  Report K. Mogi

• Keisuke Suzuki at RIKEN BSI visited our lab to talk about life, autopoiesis, and the self.

17th(#307) :2011/9/2(Fri): Research Talk

• The science of sexual difference from a standpoint of brain and cognitive science.
  Report A. Onzo

18th(#308) :2011/9/7(Wed): Journal Club & Research Talk

• Choice under certainty.
  Research Talk T. Sekine

• Schemas and Memory Consolidation
  Tse D, Langston RF, Kakeyama M, Bethus I, Spooner PA, Wood ER, Witter MP, Morris RG.
  Science. 316(5821):76-82. (2007)
  [Full Text]
  Report T. Ishikawa

• Oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) is related to psychological resources
  Shimon Saphire-Bernsteina, Baldwin M. Wayb, Heejung S. Kimc, David K. Shermanc, and Shelley E. Taylora
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2011) [Epub ahead of print]
  [Abstract]
  Report E. Hoshino

• Neural language networks at birth
  Daniela Perania,b,c,1, Maria C. Saccumana, Paola Scifob,c, Alfred Awanderd, Danilo Spadaa, Cristina Baldolib,e, Antonella Poloniatof, Gabriele Lohmanng, and Angela D. Friedericih
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2011) [Epub ahead of print]
  [Abstract]
  Report E. Hoshino

• Consciousness cannot be separated from function
  Cohen MA, Dennett DC.
  Trends Cogn Sci. 15(8):358-64. (2011)
  [Full Text]
  Report E. Hoshino

19th(#309) :2011/9/16(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

• Facial structure is a reliable cue of aggressive behavior.
  Carré JM, McCormick CM, Mondloch CJ.
  Psychol Sci. 20(10):1194-8. (2009)
  [Fulltext]
  Report A. Onzo

• Longitudinal evidence that fatherhood decreases testosterone in human males.
  Gettler LT, McDade TW, Feranil AB, Kuzawa CW.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2011) Sep 12. [Epub ahead of print]
  [Fulltext]
  Report A. Onzo

• Invasive plants versus their new and old neighbors: a mechanism for exotic invasion.
  Callaway RM, Aschehoug ET.
  Science 290(5491):521-3. (2000)
  [Fulltext]
  Report A. Onzo

• A modulatory effect of male voice pitch on long-term memory in women: evidence of adaptation for mate choice?
  Smith DS, Jones BC, Feinberg DR, Allan K.
  Mem Cognit. (2011) Sep 8. [Epub ahead of print]
  [Abstract]
  Report T. Herai

• Revisiting Irrationality
  Research Talk K. Mogi

[Conference] :Sep. 14-17, 2011: Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society

We attended to the 34th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society －Neuroscience of the Mind－ held in Yokohama.

• Awareness of the relationship with others
  Takano T, Mogi K.
  Poster Sessions: Social Behavior 2 (P4-p11), Sep 17, 2011.

Related Link: The Japan Neuroscience Society 2011

20th(#310) :2011/9/30(Eri): Journal Club & Research Talk

• Retrieval practice produces more learning than elaborative studying with concept mapping
  Karpicke JD, Blunt JR.
  Science. 331(6018):772-5. (2011)
  [Fulltext]
  Report T. Sekine

• The motivational salience of infant faces is similar for men and women.
  Parsons CE, Young KS, Kumari N, Stein A, Kringelbach ML.
  PLoS One. 6(5):e20632. (2011)
  [Fulltext]
  Report T. Takano

• "We all look the same to me": positive emotions eliminate the own-race in face recognition.
  Johnson KJ, Fredrickson BL.
  Psychol Sci. 16(11):875-81. (2005)
  [Fulltext]
  Report T. Takano

• Time perception and movement.
  Research Talk T. Herai