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Award-winning photojournalist, Karim Ben Khelifa, is widely known for his coverage of the Middle East conflicts, especially the Iraq and Afghan wars, where he covered the insurgent sides. While a Fellow at the Open Documentary Lab at MIT, Ben Khelifa designed and prototyped his latest project The Enemy. This immersive installation uses VR to bring the audience into conversations between enemies within longstanding global conflicts. During his residency, he collaborated with Fox Harrell of the Imagination, Computation and Expression (ICE) Laboratory, to integrate concepts from cognitive science and Artificial Intelligence-based interaction models into the project to engender empathy.
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Slow cognitive decline with flavonols, study says
Eating more flavonols, antioxidants found in many vegetables, fruits, tea and wine, may slow your rate of memory loss, a new study finds.
The cognitive score of people in the study who ate the most flavonols declined 0.4 units per decade more slowly than those who ate the fewest flavonols. The results held even after adjusting for other factors that can affect memory, such as age, sex and smoking, according to the study recently published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
“It’s exciting that our study shows making specific diet choices may lead to a slower rate of cognitive decline,” said study author Dr. Thomas Holland, an instructor in the department of internal medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, in a statement.
“Something as simple as eating more fruits and vegetables and drinking more tea is an easy way for people to take an active role in maintaining their brain health.”
Flavonols are cytoprotective, meaning they protect cells, including neurons, so it’s plausible there could be a direct impact on cognition, said Dr. David Katz, a specialist in preventive and lifestyle medicine and nutrition who was not involved in the study.
“But they are also a marker of higher intake of fruits and vegetables — which is good for the brain because it is good for every vital organ, and the organism as a whole,” Katz said in an email.
“They may also be a marker of better overall diet quality, or even greater health consciousness. People who are more health conscious may do things to preserve their cognition, or maybe being more health conscious is a by-product of better cognition.”
A huge family of phytochemicals
Plants contain over 5,000 flavonoid compounds, which play roles in producing cell growth, fighting environmental stress and attracting insects for pollination.
Flavonols, a type of flavonoid, have been shown in animal and some human studies to reduce inflammation, a major trigger for chronic disease, and are rich sources of antioxidants. Antioxidants combat free radicals, “highly unstable molecules that are naturally formed when you exercise and when your body converts food into energy,” according to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, part of the National Institutes of Health.
One of the most common flavonols, quercetin, has shown promise in reducing the onset of colorectal cancer and other cancers, according to studies. Onions contain the highest levels — lower levels can be found in broccoli, blueberries, cauliflower, curly kale, leeks, spinach and strawberries.
Another common flavonol, kaempferol, appears to inhibit the growth of cancer cells while preserving and protecting normal cells. Good sources of kaempferol are onions, asparagus and berries, but the richest plant sources are spinach, kale and other green leafy vegetables, as well as herbs such as chives, dill and tarragon.
third major player is myricetin, which has been studied in rodents for blood sugar control and the reduction of tau, a protein that causes the hallmark tangles of Alzheimer’s and other dementia. Spinach and strawberries contain high levels of myricetin, but honey, black currants, grapes and other fruits, berries, vegetables, nuts and tea are also good sources.
The last group of flavonols, isorhamnetin, may protect against cardiovascular and neurovascular disease in addition to anti-tumor and anti-inflammatory benefits. Good sources of isorhamnetin are pears, olive oil, wine and tomato sauce.
You can find a full list of the flavonoid content of various fruits and vegetables here.
An older, dementia-free population
The new study asked 961 people with an average age of 81 and no signs of dementia to fill out a food questionnaire each year for seven years. In addition, the participants underwent annual cognitive and memory tests and were quizzed on their time spent being physically and mentally active.
People were divided into groups based on their daily intake of flavonols. The lowest intake was about 5 milligrams a day; the highest 15 milligrams a day — equal to about a cup of dark leafy greens, the study noted. (For comparison, the average flavonol intake in US adults is about 16 to 20 milligrams per day, according to the study.)
The study looked at the impact of the four major flavonols — kaempferol, quercetin, myricetin and isorhamnetin — on the rate of cognitive decline over the seven years.
The greatest impact was found with kaempferol: People who ate the highest amounts of foods with kaempferol showed a 0.4 units per decade slower rate of cognitive decline compared with those who ate the fewest, according to the study.
Myricetin was next: People who ate the most foods with myricetin had a 0.3 units per decade slower rate of cognitive decline compared with the lowest consuming group. People who ate the most foods with quercetin showed a 0.2 units per decade slower rate of cognitive decline.
Dietary isorhamnetin had no impact, the study found.
The jury is still out?
Despite the apparent positives, studies on the impact of flavonols on human health have been inconclusive -— mainly because many are observational and cannot show a direct cause and effect. That applies to the Neurology study as well, according to its authors.
A few randomized controlled trials — the scientific gold standard — have shown benefits associated with flavonols for controlling blood sugar in type 2 diabetes and improving cardiovascular health, according to the Linus Pauling Institute, home to the Micronutrient Information Center, an online database for nutrition information.
It’s not known whether these benefits are long term, the institute said, and no clear impact has been shown for cancer prevention or cognitive protection.
“There are other bioactives that may contribute to the observed outcomes,” Katz said. “Supplemental studies are required to isolate flavonoid effects fully.”
There’s also a downside to assuming a health impact without the necessary studies to back it up, said Dr. Christopher Gardner, a research professor of medicine and director of the Nutrition Studies Research Group at Stanford University.
“You can count on Americans wanting the benefits of plants but not wanting to eat them,” he said in an email.
“(What) if people read the headline and rush out and buy bottled (extracted) flavonols instead of eating whole plant foods, and it turns out it wasn’t just the flavonols, but the package deal of everything in those plants (instead).”
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It's that funny feeling you get, when it just doesn't feel right. (massive oversimplification...). Sending something off to an external website is definitely not cognitive dissonance. From the talk by Gavin Bell of Nature.
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Memory & Attention
It is essential for cognitive study to explore memory, and it is impossible to treat cognition and remembrance as separate elements. Our past experience always biases our perception. What we have perceived will go through our imagination, and it will be stored in memory. We repeat this roop every day. It is impossible to see more things than our imagination and memory allow us to see. At the same time, it means that if we have more imagination and more kinds of recollections, we might be able to see more elements in the world. A series of experiment was conducted to explore our attention and memory in space.
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Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT): The Model CBT is based on the premise that our thoughts cause our feelings and behaviours,and not external things, like people, situations, and events. www.cbt.ie
This is all of us from the ACSENT lab at UCT (Except Colin who was on sabbatical) - we do cognitive psychology, eyewitness memory, virtual reality, and experimental neuropsychology (trauma and spatial memory). Photo taken by lab intern Steven Bowles.
Study Examines Cognitive Impairment in Families With Exceptional Longevity | Alzheimer's Reading Room
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Jerry Kang: Immaculate perception?
Jerry Kang is a Professor of Law and Asian American Studies at UCLA. His work examines the legal implications of socio-cognitive implicit bias, or unintentional racism. Our ability to judge whether we are racist may not even be obvious to us if we look deeply at ourselves. Kang disseminates the work of other cognitive neuroscientists who study implicit bias and stereotype threat, and he extrapolates the implications of this work in a legal setting. He has received the highest honor for his teaching at UCLA, the University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2010.
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Victoria is in Physics Education, studying cognitive science and how it is that we muck up teaching science (physics especially). A lot of her work with her advisor centers around science for young-ish children, maybe 10-12 years old. One of their recurring things is playing with toy cars, and they are always on the lookout for good mechanical cars that actually demonstrate how the system works.
This one is a new favorite. This picture by itself is perhaps enough to figure out the entirety of how it works (the spiral bit is a torsional spring, it basically stores up twisting). Certainly one more picture from the top-down would do it for most people.
This one is a bit of a cop-out, really, but I did something to muck up my back/neck/shoulder and have been pretty out of it all day.
Trevor Michael Brown (School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences)
‘EEG and ERP Biomarkers, Source Localisation and Neurofeedback for Performance Enhancement in Elite Table Tennis Athletes’
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Jerry Kang: Immaculate perception?
Jerry Kang is a Professor of Law and Asian American Studies at UCLA. His work examines the legal implications of socio-cognitive implicit bias, or unintentional racism. Our ability to judge whether we are racist may not even be obvious to us if we look deeply at ourselves. Kang disseminates the work of other cognitive neuroscientists who study implicit bias and stereotype threat, and he extrapolates the implications of this work in a legal setting. He has received the highest honor for his teaching at UCLA, the University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2010.
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to the sooe re-embodies the cognitive processes and creative voices of three agents into a tangible device: a deceased author, a deep learning neural net, and an ASMR performer. These agencies are materialized in the device, which transmits soft vocalizations of an AI-generated text: its vocalizations are intended to induce autonomous physiological sensations in the listener, revealing the body as linked to the technological-sonic assemblage and initiating an intimate encounter with machine learning processes.
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Jerry Kang: Immaculate perception?
Jerry Kang is a Professor of Law and Asian American Studies at UCLA. His work examines the legal implications of socio-cognitive implicit bias, or unintentional racism. Our ability to judge whether we are racist may not even be obvious to us if we look deeply at ourselves. Kang disseminates the work of other cognitive neuroscientists who study implicit bias and stereotype threat, and he extrapolates the implications of this work in a legal setting. He has received the highest honor for his teaching at UCLA, the University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2010.
jerrykang.net/2011/03/13/getting-up-to-speed-on-implicit-...
www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/all-faculty-profiles/professors/...
photo attribution: sean dreilinger durak.org
Jerry Kang: Immaculate perception?
Jerry Kang is a Professor of Law and Asian American Studies at UCLA. His work examines the legal implications of socio-cognitive implicit bias, or unintentional racism. Our ability to judge whether we are racist may not even be obvious to us if we look deeply at ourselves. Kang disseminates the work of other cognitive neuroscientists who study implicit bias and stereotype threat, and he extrapolates the implications of this work in a legal setting. He has received the highest honor for his teaching at UCLA, the University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2010.
jerrykang.net/2011/03/13/getting-up-to-speed-on-implicit-...
www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/all-faculty-profiles/professors/...
photo attribution: sean dreilinger durak.org
Jerry Kang: Immaculate perception?
Jerry Kang is a Professor of Law and Asian American Studies at UCLA. His work examines the legal implications of socio-cognitive implicit bias, or unintentional racism. Our ability to judge whether we are racist may not even be obvious to us if we look deeply at ourselves. Kang disseminates the work of other cognitive neuroscientists who study implicit bias and stereotype threat, and he extrapolates the implications of this work in a legal setting. He has received the highest honor for his teaching at UCLA, the University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2010.
jerrykang.net/2011/03/13/getting-up-to-speed-on-implicit-...
www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/all-faculty-profiles/professors/...
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• Supplemental materials — for students & instructors
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The ACRM community group — the Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group (BI-ISIG) literally wrote the book on brain injury rehabilitation. Now in its second edition, this training program includes:
• The Manual — 500+ pages available in print & e-versions
• Recorded online training course — with CME/CEUs
• IN-PERSON workshops — with CME/CEUs
• Hosting/sponsoring, multi-seat/ group licensing opportunities
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Shot for this week's Take a Class with Dave & Dave Assignment #2, Album cover: "With this one we take a small step outside our normal limitations. Create a fully conceived design for an album. like any cd or lp cover, it must be: a square, have the name of the artist, and the name of the album."
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Jerry Kang: Immaculate perception?
Jerry Kang is a Professor of Law and Asian American Studies at UCLA. His work examines the legal implications of socio-cognitive implicit bias, or unintentional racism. Our ability to judge whether we are racist may not even be obvious to us if we look deeply at ourselves. Kang disseminates the work of other cognitive neuroscientists who study implicit bias and stereotype threat, and he extrapolates the implications of this work in a legal setting. He has received the highest honor for his teaching at UCLA, the University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2010.
jerrykang.net/2011/03/13/getting-up-to-speed-on-implicit-...
www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/all-faculty-profiles/professors/...
The Common Raven, also known as the Northern Raven, displays considerable abilities in problem solving, as well as other cognitive processes such as imitation and insight. Common Ravens have been observed to manipulate other parties into doing work for them, such as by calling wolves and coyotes to the site of dead animals. The canines open the carcass, leaving the scraps more accessible to the birds. They watch where other Common Ravens bury their food and remember the locations of each other's food caches, so they can steal from them. This type of theft occurs so regularly that Common Ravens will fly extra distances from a food source to find better hiding places for food. They have also been observed pretending to make a cache without actually depositing the food, presumably to confuse onlookers. Juvenile common ravens are among the most playful of bird species. They have been observed to slide down snowbanks, apparently purely for fun. They even engage in games with other species, such as playing catch-me-if-you-can with wolves, otters and dogs. Common Ravens are known for spectacular aerobatic displays, such as flying in loops or interlocking talons with each other in flight. They are also one of only a few wild animals who make their own toys. They have been observed breaking off twigs to play with socially.
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ACRM Cognitive Rehabilitation MANUAL & TEXTBOOK — SECOND EDITION
Manual • Online course • In-person Workshops • Hosting & sponsoring >>>
EXTENSIVELY revised — includes ALL strategies • 500+ pages • companion website materials
• NEW & updated treatment recommendations
• EXTENSIVELY revised — quadrupled in size
• ALL-NEW chapters
• Robust companion website
• Supplemental materials — for students & instructors
The ACRM community group — the Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group (BI-ISIG) ACRM.org/bi literally wrote the book on brain injury rehabilitation. Now in its second edition, this training program includes:
• The Manual — 500+ pages available in print & e-versions
• Recorded online training course — with CME/CEUs
• IN-PERSON workshops — with CME/CEUs
• Hosting/sponsoring, multi-seat/ group licensing opportunities
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Not my usual style, but my fascination with contradictions won out. I would like to say this is in Albuquerque, but, alas, Kansas City, MO. I wanted to turn either north or south.
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman is trying to answer a big question: Do we experience the world as it really is ... or as we need it to be? In this ever so slightly mind-blowing talk, he ponders how our minds construct reality for us.
Talk went online.
A generous $2.5 million pledge from the Manning family to the Victoria Hospitals Foundation will fund a major research project to integrate leading-edge research and care for patients living with cognitive health issues on Vancouver Island. Partnering on this project are Island Health, the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia: ow.ly/s1p230fFzXj
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Jerry Kang: Immaculate perception?
Jerry Kang is a Professor of Law and Asian American Studies at UCLA. His work examines the legal implications of socio-cognitive implicit bias, or unintentional racism. Our ability to judge whether we are racist may not even be obvious to us if we look deeply at ourselves. Kang disseminates the work of other cognitive neuroscientists who study implicit bias and stereotype threat, and he extrapolates the implications of this work in a legal setting. He has received the highest honor for his teaching at UCLA, the University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2010.
jerrykang.net/2011/03/13/getting-up-to-speed-on-implicit-...
www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/all-faculty-profiles/professors/...