A couple of interesting new articles on BioMedNet (free registration required): one on the effect of social memory - specifically, on how people's behaviors can be unknowingly influenced by knowledge that is incidentally activated in memory during social perception, and another on identity memory - specifically, on how the visual image of people we know is linked to the sounds of their voices and the way they move.

The bountiful uses of brain imaging - now the aestheticians are getting into the act! Neuroscience and aesthetics combine at the Third International Conference on Neuroesthetics, reported here. All about what happens in the brain when we see something beautiful, vs something ugly.

A new book on visual perception and what it means for the way we experience the world: The Space Between Our Ears: How the Brain Represents Visual Space

And there's an interesting article on the effects of exercise on the brain, following a study that devised a fitness program for monkeys (thus making it easier to control the environment). Bottom line is the exercise didn't have any measurable effect on memory, but did sem to increase alertness and concentration.

I've finally got round to updating the news on Alzheimer's research.