All posts; Tags Include "Aesthetics"
- September 15, 2016
- 09:10 AM
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Paralympic athletes and the rise of the cyborgs
by gdw in FictionalFieldwork
Para and super? The Olympics are over. They’ve brought us some good stories, some nice records, and (self-citation alert!) a humble blog post about the ethics of doping. But the Paralympics, their less mediatized cousin, are in full swing. Paralympians from all over the world gather to wow us with their athletic prowess in the Paralympic […]... Read more »
Swartz, L., & Watermeyer, B. (2008) Cyborg anxiety: Oscar Pistorius and the boundaries of what it means to be human. Disability , 23(2), 187-190. DOI: 10.1080/09687590701841232
Howe, P. (2011) Cyborg and Supercrip: The Paralympics Technology and the (Dis)empowerment of Disabled Athletes. Sociology, 45(5), 868-882. DOI: 10.1177/0038038511413421
Smith, L. (2014) The Blade Runner: The Discourses Surrounding Oscar Pistorius in the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. Communication , 3(4), 390-410. DOI: 10.1177/2167479513519979
Reardon S. (2016) Welcome to the Cyborg Olympics. Nature, 536(7614), 20-2. PMID: 27488784
- August 31, 2014
- 06:36 PM
- 1,144 views
Whitman Was Not a Neuroscientist
by The Neurocritic in The Neurocritic
Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself,(I am large, I contain multitudes.)-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" (from Leaves of Grass)Science is the search for objective truth based on physical laws of the universe. Scientific theories try to explain the consistent and predictable behavior of natural systems. They are generally reductionist, meaning that complex systems are reduced to simpler and more fundamental elements. The principles of physics, for instance, are expressed in th........ Read more »
Chen, C., Huang, M., Yen, J., Chen, C., Liu, G., Yen, C., & Ko, C. (2014) Brain correlates of response inhibition in Internet gaming disorder. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. DOI: 10.1111/pcn.12224
Daniel Z. Freedman. (1994) Some beautiful equations of mathematical physics. CERN-TH.7367/94. arXiv: hep-th/9408175v1
Ko, C., Hsieh, T., Chen, C., Yen, C., Chen, C., Yen, J., Wang, P., & Liu, G. (2014) Altered brain activation during response inhibition and error processing in subjects with Internet gaming disorder: a functional magnetic imaging study. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1007/s00406-013-0483-3
Zeki, S., Romaya, J., Benincasa, D., & Atiyah, M. (2014) The experience of mathematical beauty and its neural correlates. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00068
- July 18, 2014
- 03:06 AM
- 544 views
Book Review: Visual Experience: Sensation, Cognition and Constancy
by Farid Pazhoohi in Epistemophil
Mankind has always been interested in the way people perceive the world and this has become one of its main concerns reflected in the fact that early explanations for visual perception date back to ancient Greece. Studies of visual perception were pursued merely in the field of philosophy until the 20th century, when psychologists, and […]... Read more »
Pazhoohi, F. (2014) Visual Experience: Sensation, Cognition and Constancy. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 10(1), 204-207. DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v10i1.731
- September 22, 2013
- 06:56 AM
- 1,147 views
Neurological Art History
by The Neurocritic in The Neurocritic
“Wound man” woodcut by Johannes de Ketham, originally appearing in Fasciculus medicinae (1491). This image is from Fasiculo de medicina (1494), a translation into Italian by Sebastiano Manilio.We rationalize, we dissimilate, we pretend: we pretend that modern medicine is a rational science, all facts, no nonsense, and just what it seems. But we have only to tap its glossy veneer for it to split wide open, and reveal to us its roots and foundations, its old dark heart of metaphysics, mys........ Read more »
Lanska DJ, & Lanska JR. (2013) Medieval and Renaissance anatomists: The printing and unauthorized copying of illustrations, and the dissemination of ideas. Progress in brain research, 33-74. PMID: 24041276
Russell GA. (2013) Vesalius and the emergence of veridical representation in Renaissance anatomy. Progress in brain research, 3-32. PMID: 24041275
- September 16, 2013
- 01:23 AM
- 1,304 views
Everything's Unscented
by The Neurocritic in The Neurocritic
If you were forced to sacrifice one of your five senses, which would it be? Most people wouldn't consider losing their vision or hearing. It would be really dangerous to completely lose your sense of touch, so that won't be an option in our hypothetical scenario. So we're left with the chemical senses of smell and taste. I think most of us would choose one of these two.But what about someone who can't smell? How can they miss something they've never known?“If I had to lose one of my sens........ Read more »
Karstensen HG, & Tommerup N. (2012) Isolated and syndromic forms of congenital anosmia. Clinical genetics, 81(3), 210-5. PMID: 21895637
Keller A, & Malaspina D. (2013) Hidden consequences of olfactory dysfunction: a patient report series. BMC ear, nose, and throat disorders, 13(1), 8. PMID: 23875929
Tafalla M. (2013) A world without the olfactory dimension. Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007), 296(9), 1287-96. PMID: 23907763
- August 26, 2012
- 03:33 AM
- 1,178 views
The Art of Delicate Sadness
by The Neurocritic in The Neurocritic
Sad Noh masks (from Fig. 1 of Osaka et al., 2012).Noh is a traditional style of Japanese theater where the actors wear masks to convey facial expressions. Many of the masks are known for their ambiguity:As it is often difficult to tell the actual feelings expressed in a noh mask, it is said to be made with a “neutral” expression. The mask carver tries to instill a variety of emotions in the mask. It is up to the performer to imbue the mask with emotion. One of the techniques used in thi........ Read more »
Osaka N, Minamoto T, Yaoi K, & Osaka M. (2012) Neural correlates of delicate sadness: an fMRI study based on the neuroaesthetics of Noh masks. Neuroreport, 23(1), 26-9. PMID: 22113213
- June 19, 2012
- 11:29 AM
- 1,353 views
The Evolution of Music
by Iddo Friedberg in Byte Size Biology
A collaboration between a group in Imperial College and Media Interaction group in Japan yielded a really cool website: darwintunes.org. The idea is to apply Darwinian-like selection to music. Starting form a garble, after several generations producing something that is actually melodic and listen-able. Or a Katy Perry tune. Whatever. The selective force being the appeal of the tune to the listener. ... Read more »
Robert M. MacCallum, Matthias Mauchb, Austin Burta, & Armand M. Leroia. (2012) (2012-06-18) Evolution of music by public choice. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1203182109
- May 18, 2012
- 04:54 PM
- 1,368 views
Study: Want to Look Aggressive? Wear Black
by David Berreby in Mind Matters
Psychology is rich in findings that emerge from complex statistics done on the behavior of college students behaving for money or course credit. It's fair to wonder, then, how well those findings relate to the real world: Maybe a result is peculiar to undergrads, or maybe it's a subtle effect that ...Read More
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Webster, G., Urland, G., & Correll, J. (2011) Can Uniform Color Color Aggression? Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Professional Ice Hockey. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3(3), 274-281. DOI: 10.1177/1948550611418535
- April 11, 2012
- 02:01 PM
- 1,706 views
The Social Punishment of Samantha Brick
by Miss Behavior in The Scorpion and the Frog
An interesting thing happened this week in the world of collective human behavior. But before we go into that, let me ask you two questions: Have you heard of Samantha Brick? On a scale of 1 to 10, how attractive do you think she is? Samantha Brick, a journalist, wrote an article for the Daily Mail called “'There are downsides to looking this pretty': Why women hate me for being beautiful”. Naturally, the response to hearing a story like this is, “Well, what does she look like?” Luckily ........ Read more »
Tibbetts, E., & Izzo, A. (2010) Social Punishment of Dishonest Signalers Caused by Mismatch between Signal and Behavior. Current Biology, 20(18), 1637-1640. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.07.042
- January 6, 2012
- 08:00 AM
- 1,396 views
Questioning Permanence: Would You Get a QR Code Tattoo?
by Krystal D'Costa in Anthropology in Practice
Are you inked? I’m not, though I’ve thought about it seriously and have a pretty good idea of what I would get and where I would put it—if I could work up the nerve to get in the chair. I’ll tell you one thing: It most certainly is not a QR code like Fred Bosch, who [...]
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Caplan, J. (1997) 'Speaking Scars': The Tattoo in Popular Practice and Medico-Legal Debate in Nineteenth-Century Europe. History Workshop Journal: HWJ, 107-42. PMID: 11619699
Dye, I. (1989) The tattoos of Early American Seafarers, 1796-1818. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 133(4), 520-554. info:/
Irwin, K. (2001) Legitimating the First Tattoo: Moral Passage through Informal Interaction. Symbolic Interaction, 24(1), 49-73. DOI: 10.1525/si.2001.24.1.49
Schildkrout, E. (2004) Inscribing the Body. Annual Review of Anthropology, 33(1), 319-344. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143947
- September 6, 2008
- 10:32 PM
- 2,137 views
Pain & Paintings: Beholding Beauty Reduces Pain Perception and Laser Evoked Potentials
by The Neurocritic in The Neurocritic
-Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2Neuroesthetics, a term coined by Semir Zeki, is "the attempt to use neuroscience to understand art and aesthetic behaviour" (as defined in an excellent overview by BRAINETHICS). Some would say the venture is anathema, that reductionistic explanations of the sublime are misguided at best and destructive at worst. Others hold that since all qualia emanate from the brain, a neuroscientific approach is the only true way to understand aest........ Read more »
M TOMMASO, M SARDARO, & P LIVREA. (2008) Aesthetic value of paintings affects pain thresholds☆. Consciousness and Cognition. DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2008.07.002
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