Congratulations to Helia Hosseinpour, Laura Matzen, Kristin Divis, Spencer C. Castro, and @lace for the acceptance of their paper "Examining Limits of Small Multiples: Frame Quantity Impacts Judgments with Line Graphs" to @ieee_tvcg@computersociety ✨✊
During the historic gathering of 3 #UnitedStates presidents last night, pro- #Palestinian protesters interrupted the event. Again, instead of ignoring their protestations, the presidents addressed the concerns.
All 3 men remarked on the #Israel#Hamas#war in #Gaza, reflecting on the difficulty of trying to solve intractable challenges such as #MiddleEast#peace as #POTUS. #Biden said there have been “too many innocent victims, Israeli & Palestinian,” in the conflict.
American economic pessimism has been bafflingly persistent despite major indicators showing that the economy is actually strong. Unemployment is low, #inflation is significantly down, #wages are up, the stock #market is hitting new all-time highs, & it looks like TheFed might keep the US out of a #recession.
Differences in ways information is processed, combined with heightened levels of perception in some areas (e.g. when it comes to details and/or patterns), can lead to a lot of creativity, and unusual talents.
New paper alert! @ChrystalaPsathiti and I argue in our paper in the Journal of Architecture published today that adolescents' positive perceptions of school depend (among other things) on the school layout and levels of visibility from the classroom, which enables a greater sense of belonging to the school community
Our #perception of an object sharpens momentarily, even as we plan to gaze towards it. This study shows that this fails to happen when the object changes subtly, suggesting that #GazePlans may affect visual abilities in surprising ways in changing environments... #PLOSBiologyhttps://plos.io/3vWnv5N
A lively and unconventional exploration of our senses, how they work, what is revealed when they don’t, and how they connect us to the world
Over the past decade neuroscience has uncovered a wealth of new information about our senses and how they serve as our gateway to the world.
Watch What People Do, Not What They Say About the Economy.
The fundamental puzzle isn’t that people are unhappy despite favorable macroeconomic indicators. It is that Americans say that things are terrible but behave as if they’re doing pretty well.
The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of the Human Mind
Most of us know it well--the almost physical sensation that we are the object of someone’s attention. Is the feeling all in our heads? What about related phenomena, such as telepathy and premonitions? Are they merely subjective beliefs?
Language, Thought and Reality
Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
The pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf (1897–1941) grasped the relationship between human language and human thinking: how language can shape our innermost thoughts. His basic thesis is that our perception of the world and our ways of thinking about it are deeply influenced by the structure of the languages we speak.
"We conclude that linguistic enhancement of color contrasts provides targets with a head start in accessing visual consciousness. Our native language is thus one of the forces that determine what we consciously perceive."
…we mistakenly may have been putting all our educational eggs into one basket only, while shortchanging other truly valuable capabilities of the human brain, namely perception, intuition, imagination, and creativity.
—Betty Edwards, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain #perception#intuition#imagination#creativity
"these findings suggest that while the voices of bisexual men in our sample were perceived as more masculine and female attracted, listeners do not associate this impression with bisexuality, and thus cannot identify bisexual men from their voices."
I am Fabrice, a #neuroscience#PhDstudent @ University of Padova🇮🇹
I am moving instances from sigmoid.social, where I've been staying as a deep learning scientist (too many still and only on X, little discussion outside LLMs, 🥱)
My research👨🏾💻 focuses on classic machine learning as well as self supervised neural networks applied to problems in neurology🧠, such as post-stroke rehabilitation.
I've been interested in #perception, #cognition, #reasoning in living and artificial systems since forever.
I naturally love online interactions, but most places I was used to were deeply toxic. I'm liking Mastodon for now!
Feel free to boost around a bit