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Domain specificity follows from interactions between overlapping maps
Object-face by Multitude I can’t simplify the title beyond that, but don’t run away yet, the idea itself is straight forward once the terminology is explained. Skip ahead two paragraphs i… more »
The Phineas Gage Fan Club
Integumentary lowness of spirit and horny
jeansucguri wrote 1 day ago: Yourselves may uncover pole waterlessness and thrill that is inefficiently alleviated accommodated t … more »
Cochlear Implant Supports an Author’s Active Life
editor wrote 4 months ago: Cochlear Implant Supports an Author’s Active Life Summary: Read the remarkable journey of a young … more »
Domain specificity follows from interactions between overlapping maps
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Johan wrote 4 months ago: Object-face by Multitude I can’t simplify the title beyond that, but don’t run away yet … more »
The Claim: Menstrual Cycles Can Synchronize Over Time
editor wrote 5 months ago: The Claim: Menstrual Cycles Can Synchronize Over Time Summary: This article reports findings from a … more »
Sightless Parent Fish Don't Produce Just Sightless Hybrids
editor wrote 5 months ago: Sightless Parent Fish Don’t Produce Just Sightless Hybrids Summary: This article reports on fi … more »
A Princeton Lab on ESP Plans to Close Its Doors
editor wrote 5 months ago: A Princeton Lab on ESP Plans to Close Its Doors Summary: A Princeton lab has been doing research on … more »
Learning to recognise faces: perceptual narrowing?
Johan wrote 6 months ago: That image certainly piques your interest, doesn’t it? Sugita (200 was interested in addres … more »
Podcast: Subliminal Messages
editor wrote 6 months ago: This podcast episode features a conversation between two psychologists who discuss the controversial … more »
Visual Cortex: A Schematic Map
Johan wrote 9 months ago: I came across this figure in a review by Grill-Spector and Malach (2004). It condenses an already-de … more »
Hearing limitations, pt. 2: Distinguishing MP3 from CD
Johan wrote 9 months ago: As a continuation of the recent post on audiophiles, let’s look closer at how good we are de … more »
Audiophiles and the limitations of human hearing
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Johan wrote 9 months ago: The other week Gizmodo posted an amusing rant about a set of $7250 speaker cables, and the gushing … more »
N170 face controversy continues
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Johan wrote 1 year ago: A while back I blogged a paper by Thierry et al (2007 - see also the Neurocritic’s post). Some … more »
Google images now detects faces (poorly)
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Johan wrote 1 year ago: Google has somewhat secretly rolled out a special filter for its image searches, that enables you to … more »
Light blogging: James Haxby talk
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Johan wrote 1 year ago: In this video, James Haxby talks about how a multivariate techique called pattern classification c … more »
Im in ur blog, writin bout teh psychologiez
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Mandy wrote 1 year ago: As my department’s resident crazy cat lady, it’s no surprise that I take great joy in lo … more »
Early split in the processing of faces and their expressions
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Johan wrote 1 year ago: You might suppose that processing faces and facial expressions should be done in the same place - a … more »
Hotwiring the Visual System
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Johan wrote 1 year ago: A recent paper in PNAS by Pezaris and Reed (2007) outlines a potential way of providing artificial … more »
Object- or Viewer-centered Coding in the Superior Temporal Sulcus
Johan wrote 1 year ago: The Superior Temporal Sulcus (STS) is a groove in the temporal lobe (shown in a Macaque monkey abov … more »
Storage of the Motion After-Effect
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Johan wrote 1 year ago: Omnibrain had a story on the motion after-effect a while back, including a link to a rather nice de … more »
