Great web-summary on PsyPost of an article about consumer perception of product orientation, and how it influences the amount of visualizations involving using the objects.
Click the link for more: http://www.psypost.org/2011/10/how-does-hand-orientation-help-consumers-imagine-using-products-7665?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
This is fantastic news for our lab’s line of research! One point for the Gestalts! Very well done indeed. Thank you to Kubilius et al. for an exciting piece of literature.
A crash course in brain imaging…HOORAH!
This site makes my happy meter explode, and I can’t wait to have time to have a better look!
It’s all thanks to Dr. Jody Culham at the University of Western Ontario and the Robarts Research Institute. THANK YOU!!!
…my advisor is AWESOME.
The following is from Rice University’s Psychology News Website
“Professor James Pomerantz has been invited to deliver the next Kanizsa Lecture in Italy
Each year the Department of Psychology at the University of Trieste celebrates the work of the pioneeer visual scientist Gaetano Kanizsa with the Kanizsa Lecture. Kanizsa (1913-1993), whose name is widely known from the illusory figures and contours he created such as the famous Kanizsa Triangle, was an influential cognitive psychologist working in the Gestalt tradition, but he was also an artist. He was the founder of the Institute of Psychology of Trieste. Previous Kanizsa lecturers include Irvin Rock, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Philip Johnson-Laird, Richard Gregory, Elizabeth Spelke, Melvyn Goodale, and Steven Palmer.”
Hello all!
Due to some issues with the available templates for Rice’s blog domain (i.e., the templates that have RSS options are ghastly), I have created a Twitter that will keep track of my blog posts, as well as other cool neuro stuff.
So…follow me on Twitter at @amygdalawesome 😀
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This video is the first part of 5.
Extraordinary People – The boy who sees without eyes [1/5] – YouTube.
RIP Ben Underwood. You are truly a miracle.
Just like a married couple – COMMUNICATION is key. Check out how the brain’s intra-hemispheric communication is a big part of how we perceive our environment. Here’s a quick blurb:
“ScienceDaily (Sep. 1, 2011) — Our brain is divided into two hemispheres, which are linked through only a few connections. However, we do not seem to have a problem to create a coherent image of our environment — our perception is not “split” in two halves. For the seamless unity of our subjective experience, information from both hemispheres needs to be efficiently integrated. The corpus callosum, the largest fibre bundle connecting the left and right side of our brain, plays a major role in this process. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt investigated whether differences between individuals in the anatomy of the corpus callosum would predict how observers perceive a visual stimulus for which the left and right hemisphere need to cooperate. As their results indicate, the characteristics of specific callosal fibre tracts are related to the subjective experience of individuals.”
For all my current and future grad-school peeps. And for all those that find themselves curious about what grad school is all about. Dr. Azuma makes some excellent points for thought. Not to mention some humor in the mix! Here’s his brief description:
“A computer science graduate school survival guide, intended for prospective or novice graduate students. This guide describes what I wish I had known at the start of graduate school but had to learn the hard way instead. It focuses on mental toughness and the skills a graduate student needs. The guide also discusses finding a job after completing the Ph.D. and points to many other related web pages.”
“ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2011) — Each taste, from sweet to salty, is sensed by a unique set of neurons in the brains of mice, new research reveals. The findings demonstrate that neurons that respond to specific tastes are arranged discretely in what the scientists call a “gustotopic map.” This is the first map that shows how taste is represented in the mammalian brain.”