Quizás estaba haciendo la pregunta equivocada: no debería ser por qué tendemos a desdeñar lo nuevo a medida que nos hacemos viejos, sino por qué, a medida que envejecemos, ansiamos lo familiar. Hay un...
Oxytocin, the luv hormone, makes us more prosocial to Us and worse to everyone else. That’s not generic prosociality. That’s ethnocentrism and xenophobia. In other words, the actions of these neuropep...
Feeling someone else’s pain can be more effective for learning than just knowing that they’re in pain. At its core the ACC is about self-interest, with caring about that other person in pain as an add...
Cuando Igor Stravinsky yacía en su lecho de muerte, golpeaba repetidamente su anillo contra el metal de la barandilla de su cama de hospital y, cada vez que lo hacía, alarmaba a su mujer con el sonido...
But in reality the brain is about circuits, about the patterns of functional connectivity among regions. The growing myelination of the adolescent brain shows the importance of increased connectivity.
As emphasized in the last chapter, epigenetic changes can be multi-generational.8 Dogma was that all the epigenetic marks (i.e., changes in the DNA or surrounding proteins) were erased in eggs and spe...
Level 1: Should I Eat the Cookie? Preconventional Reasoning Stage 1. It depends. How likely am I to get punished? Being punished is unpleasant. Aggression typically peaks around ages two through four,...
EVOLUTION RESTS ON three steps: (a) certain biological traits are inherited by genetic means; (b) mutations and gene recombination produce variation in those traits; (c) some of those variants confer...