Make Church Street a Clean Air Zone
Low emissions zones are a very quick way to bring down pollution ( NO2 ,PM2.5) and avoid cognitive decline and cancers from combustion traffic.

"Higher emissions from industry and residential combustion, as well as biofuel, coal, and oil and natural gas combustion, were associated with worse language scores."
https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/80/5/glaf060/8082041?login=false

Clean air zones
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/driving-in-a-clean-air-zone
#FossilFuels #vehicles #combustion #cars #traffic #polllution #contaminants #regulation #LEZ #ULEZ #cognition #cancer #Bellingen #ChurchStreet #cafes #alfreco #eateries #CleanAir #PublicHealth #health #harm

A recent study called into question creatine's value for supporting muscle growth. Here's a new summary of creatine's role in supporting the brain's immune system:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-modern-brain/202504/the-new-neuroscience-of-creatine-for-brain-health

and a summary from last year of the relationship between creatine and migraine headaches:

https://migrainebuddy.com/the-connection-between-migraine-and-creatine-levels/

Study links a child's early #social environment to the development of the #brain

#cognition #anthropology #lifehistory

https://www.science.org/content/article/early-experiences-shape-brain-s-communication-superhighways-affect-cognition

#Evolution #Neuroscience #Cognition - Crows recognize geometric regularity - "The crows exhibited a geometric regularity effect, showing better performance with shapes featuring right angles, parallel lines, or symmetry over more irregular shapes. This performance advantage did not require learning. Our findings suggest that geometric intuitions are not specific to humans but are deeply rooted in biological evolution." - Philipp Schmidbauer et al., Crows recognize geometric regularity.Sci. Adv.11,eadt3718(2025).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adt3718 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt3718

A study of 88 individuals aged 20-65 found that cognitive ability--specifically working memory, executive control, and perceptual reasoning--generally were more important than experience for computer use. The effects are task--specific, however. Task success for spreadsheets depended primarily on experience, and for information search, depended primarily on cognitive abilities.

Summary: https://scitechdaily.com/new-study-a-lack-of-intelligence-not-training-may-be-why-people-struggle-with-computers/

Original paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S107158192400137X

Separate but similar evolution of brain structures in intelligent birds and mammals:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/intelligence-evolved-at-least-twice-in-vertebrate-animals-20250407/

Pretty interesting study on nontrivial #compositionality in #bonobos -- a 'uniquely human' language feature

#languageevolution #greatapes #primatecommunication #anthropology #cognition

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv1170

#introduction

Studied linguist and cognitive scientist who transformed into a software engineer.

Interested in #Anthropology, #Nutrition, #Sports, #Cognition and #Psychology, #Japanese, #Literature, #Minimalism or rather #Simplification.

I enjoy making #Music and writing things #writing. It’s the little things that matter.

Analysis of data from almost 30,000 older U.S. adults found a steep decline in cognitive function immediately following heart failure, with continued decline in following years, amounting to aging 10 years in just 7 years.

Summary: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-cognitive-decline-sooner-people-heart.html

Original paper (not open access): https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011837

Yet another study confirms that resistance training protects against cognitive decline.

Summary: https://neurosciencenews.com/weight-training-alzheimers-aging-28538/

Original paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11357-024-01483-8

Male rats showed long-term impairment in learning, exploration, and rapid decision-making after heavy alcohol exposure for a month. Female rats did not show the same level of impairment.

Summary: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-alcohol-impact-reveals-heavy-cognition.html

Original paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt0200

A new study finds that people tend to overestimate the size of small demographic groups because of cognitive errors in estimation of small proportions, not necessarily because of misinformation, ignorance, or animus. The authors emphasize that their findings do not negate the existence of those effects.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2413064122 (not open access)

Preprint at https://www.brianguay.com/files/guay_2024_misperceptions.pdf

A broad discussion of the male bias in autism research and diagnosis, and how autistic women have been largely overlooked because they commonly exhibit masking rather than avoidance behaviors:

https://aeon.co/essays/the-missing-women-of-autism-are-differently-different

#Thinking About Thinking—How #AI Reshapes #Cognition

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202503/thinking-about-thinking-how-ai-reshapes-cognition

A longitudinal study of cognition and aging in 516 people aged 70 to 105, conducted until all participants died, confirmed the association between intelligence and longevity, and found that verbal fluency was the component most strongly associated with longevity. Measures of perceptual speed, verbal knowledge, and episodic memory were not linked to longevity.

Summary: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2025-mar-mastery-language-longevity.html

Original paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976241311923

A summary of the structural changes to three areas of the brain that result from meditation, and potential beneficial effects on anxiety and cognitive decline:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/meditation-changes-your-brain-structure-in-a-good-way

1/ 4 If you can read and this you are amongst the last few humans capable of rational thought and the ability to converse. Data indicates an entire generation of young people are brain damaged and incapable of reasoning or thinking.

Collapse is imminent.
#cognition #BrainScience #psychology #information #socialmedia