Authors: Dean Buonomano
Galapagos Islands
Galifianakis, Zach
Gall, Franz Joseph
gambler’s fallacy
Gawronski, Bertram
geese, innate fear in
gender stereotypes
genes, storage systems vs. codes in
germ theory
Gigerenzer, Gird
Gilbert, Daniel
Gladwell, Malcolm
Glassner, Barry
glutamate
“God center,”
Goebbels, Joseph
Gore, Al
Gould, Stephen Jay
graceful degradation
granule cells
Greenwald, Anthony
group selection
free riders and
Haddon, Mark
hair cells, cochlear
Hall, Monty
hallucinogenic drugs
Harris, Sam
Hebb, Donald
Hebb’s rule
Hellman, Hal
herpes virus
Hill, George
hippocampus
Hitchens, Christopher
Hitler, Adolf
HIV/AIDS
homeostatic mechanisms
homicide, fear of
hominins
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens,
evolution of
Hood, Bruce
hosts, definitive vs. intermediary
house advantage
humor, associations and
Hunt, Bertha
hunter-gatherers
hypothalamus
imitation
advertising and
behavior modification and
indiscriminate generalization and
looting and
mirror neurons and
in monkeys
in primates
immediate gratification
innate bias toward
implicit associations
culture and
as product of both nature and nurture
tests for
imprinting
Institute for Safe Medication Practice
interest rates
investors, “chasing a loss” behavior of
irrational-rational continuum
Ivins, Bruce
Japanese Americans
World War II internment of
Jaws
jet lag
Jordan, Michael
judicial system, reliance on eyewitness testimony in
Kahneman, Daniel
Klamath
Korean Americans
Koshima
language, context in
Las Vegas, Nev.
lateral prefrontal cortex
Law & Order
Leaning Tower of Pisa
learning:
classical conditioning in,
see
classical conditioning
delay blindness in
neurons and
observational;
see also
imitation
operant conditioning in
plasticity of mechanisms for
LeDoux, Joe
Leibniz, Gottfried
Let’s Make a Deal
libertarian paternalism
life, creation of
limbic system
Linden, David
links
Loewenstein, George
Loftus, Elizabeth
Lømo, Terje
long-term potentiation
looting, imitation and
Lorenz, Konrad
loss aversion
LSD
lung cancer, delay blindness and
McClelland, James
McGurk effect
Machiavelli, Niccolò
mammals, evolution of
Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The
(Sacks)
marketing,
see
advertising and marketing
marmoset monkeys
mathematical ability,
see
computational ability
Matrix, The
Mauritania
Mbeki, Thabo
Mein Kampf
(Hitler)
memory
amnesia and
associative architecture of
attention in
autobiographical (episodic)
capacity of
consolidation of
context in
declarative (explicit);
see also
memory, semantic
digital
as fluid reconstructions
impaired formation of
loss of, latest-to-earliest sequence in
mechanism vs. codes in
for names
nondeclarative (implicit)
for numbers
phylogenetic (innate)
priming and
purpose of
reconsolidation of
“repressed,”
see
“repressed” memories
selectivity in
semantic
significance in
storage vs. retrieval mechanisms in
synaptic plasticity in
“time stamping” as unreliable in
unreliability of,
see
false memories
updating of
memory markers
Mendel, Gregor
“Men in a War” (Vega)
Merzenich, Michael
mice and rats:
fear conditioning in
imitation in
impairment of memory formation in
reconsolidation of memory in
running wheels and
military spending
Miller, Earl
Mineka, Susan
mirror neurons
mnemonic devices
mnemonics
money:
perceived value of
as recent cultural artifact
monkeys:
fear of snakes in
imitation in
numerical approximation experiments with
somatosensory experiments with
temporal distortion experiments with
temporal lobe experiments with
Monty Hall problem
moral codes, supernatural beliefs and
Morse code
moths
motor control, loss of
movement, reflexive response to
musicians, cortical allocation in
mutations
names:
memory for
as recent cultural artifacts
Nazi Germany
Neanderthals
Nelson, Lord
neocortex
Neptune (planet)
neural operating system:
brain as programmed by
as encoded in DNA
neurons, neural system
action potentials of
in computation of time
as context-dependent
decision making and
evolution of
fallibility of
homeostatic mechanisms of
learning and
mirror
normal loss of
numbers as represented by
presynaptic vs. postsynaptic
protein synthesis and
reallocation of
spirituality and
visual illusions and
see also
synapses
neuroparasitism
neurotransmitters
Newton, Isaac
New York Times
Nieder, Andreas
NMDA receptors
nodes
nucleotides
numbers
approximation of
memory for
neural representation of
priming for
as recent cultural artifact
Number Sense, The
(Dehaene)
N.W. Ayer
observational learning
obstetricians, puerperal fever and
Oklahoma City bombings
Ollson, Andreas
Olympics
On the Origin of Species
(Darwin)
operant conditioning
orbitalfrontal cortex
organ donors
orienting response
outcomes, influence of context on
packaging, and taste of food
paired-pulse depression
parasites, manipulation of phylogenetic fears by
parietal cortex
Pasteur, Louis
pattern recognition
adaptive value of
fallacious
pattern separation
Pavlov, Ivan
Paxil
payday loans
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on
Pediatrics
peer-pressure,
see
imitation
Penfield, Wilder
Petrified Forest National Park
phantom limb syndrome
pharmaceutical industry, marketing by
pharmaceutical names, confusing
Phelps, Elizabeth
phobias
phrenology
Pinker, Steven
Pirahã
Pitt, Brad
plasticity:
of auditory cortex
of brain,
see
cortical plasticity
of learning mechanisms
of somatosensory cortex
synaptic
Pluto, classification of
police, biases of
policy, government
temporal discounting and
politics:
advertising in
associative architecture exploited by
brain bugs and
fearmongering and demagoguery in
Poole, Bobby
postsynaptic neurons
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
preference transfer
prefetching
prefrontal cortex
lateral
ventromedial
preparedness,
see
fear, innate propensities for
presynaptic neurons
price, quality as associated with
primates:
imitation in
warfare among
priming
of behavior
implicit associations and
memories and
numerical
semantic
probability blindness
product placements
propaganda
anti-Semitic
Propaganda
(Bernays)
protein synthesis
protein synthesis inhibitors
Prozac
PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder)
public opinion:
associative architecture in molding of
fearmongering and
puerperal fever
quality, price as associated with
quantum physics
rabies
Ramón y Cajal, Santiago
rats,
see
mice and rats reason
as overridden by fear
as overridden by supernatural beliefs
-unreason continuum
receptors
NMDA
serotonin
Recife, Brazil, rape case in
reciprocity
reconsolidation, of memories
referees, decision making by
relativity
religion:
agency as co-opted by
altruism and
as evolutionary by-product
folk
group cooperation and
medical neglect and
negative influence of
positive influence of
as result of evolutionary selection
scientific progress as impeded by
statements about, brain-imaging studies of responses to
see also
spirituality; supernatural beliefs
“repressed” memories:
fabrication of
lack of evidence for
retina
rhesus monkeys, imitation in
Ribot’s law
Rizzolatti, Giacomo
RNA
Romo, Ranulfo
Ronaldinho
rooting, in spectator sports
Rutherford, Beth
saccade blindness
Santos, Chester
savant syndrome
Schacter, Daniel
scientific progress:
as based on testable hypotheses
as impeded by religion
initial opposition to
scrub jays
selacophobics
selective association,
see
fear, innate propensities for
self-transcendence
semantic memory networks
semantic priming
Semmelweis, Ignaz
sensory cortex, direct stimulation of
sensory organs, sensory data,
see
somatosensory system
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
serotonin
serotonin receptors
sexual abuse:
lasting psychological effects on victims of
by priests
sexual desire
sharks, fear of
single-cell organisms, circadian clocks in
skin conductance
skunks
smoking,
see
cigarettes
snakes, monkeys’ fear of
soccer
offside rule in
social groups, rooting and
social hierarchies
social learning,
see
imitation
socially transmitted food preferences
social networks
social phenomena, universal
somatoparaphrenia
somatosensory cortex
homunculus (map) in
plasticity of
somatosensory system
illusion in
monkey experiments on
peripheral
phantom limb syndrome and
somatoparaphrenia and
temporal distortion and