2011年8月25日 星期四
鼻子不聞，腦聞
2011年8月16日 星期二
什麼人說什麼話，什麼話說什麼人？
香港理工大學的心理學家研究發現：訪問中國學生時，當他們用英文回答問題，會表現出較為武斷、外向的性格，也較願意嘗試新的事物；但當以中文回答，卻展現出相反的一面。至於學生們所面對的訪問者，也會影響他們的性格：當受高加索人訪問時，他們表現出的個性與主流所認定的西方性格較類似。
心理學家認為，性格不是固定的，說話的語言或談話的對象所伴隨的文化都可能改變性格。
延伸閱讀：
http://www.nature.com/scientificamericanmind/journal/v22/n2/full/scientificamericanmind0511-10b.html
http://psp.sagepub.com/content/36/11/1514.abstract
2011年3月14日 星期一
你是不是厲害的目擊者呢？試試看吧！
2011年2月16日 星期三
2010年12月30日 星期四
Neurobabble or Out-of-date Phil Sci? Special sciences as providing model explanations 神經胡言亂語還是過時的Burge亂語？
2010年9月20日 星期一
The advantages of autism
Autism has long been defined in terms of its drawbacks. Now it is time to look at the benefits, argues David Wolman
* 04 May 2010 by David Wolman
MICHELLE Dawson can't handle crowded bus journeys, and she struggles to order a cup of coffee in a restaurant because contact with strangers makes her feel panicky. Yet over the past few years, Dawson has been making a name for herself as a researcher at the Rivière-des-Prairies hospital, part of the University of Montreal in Canada.
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2010年5月31日 星期一
BBC-The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow
2010年5月30日 星期日
Creative minds 'mimic schizophrenia'
Page last updated at 1:32 GMT, Saturday, 29 May 2010 2:32 UK
Artist Salvador Dali is known for his surreal paintings and eccentric personality
Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought pathways of highly creative people and those with schizophrenia.
Both groups lack important receptors used to filter and direct thought.
Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have been studying how the mind works.
Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought pathways of highly creative people and those with schizophrenia.
Both groups lack important receptors used to filter and direct thought.
2010年5月26日 星期三
電影：The Horse Boy
Rowan在兩歲的時候，被診斷為自閉症。
無論Rowen的爸媽Rupert和Kristin嘗試各種治療，Rowan都不說話也無法和人相處。
直到有一天，Rupert和Kristin在馬廄發現Rowan，和馬相處的Rowan開始和人說話。
於是，Rupert和Kristin決定前往一個可以讓Rowan與馬大量相處的地方：蒙古...
Rowen的爸爸Rupert將這趟治療之旅紀錄下來(The Horse Boy: A Father's Quest to Heal His Son)，這本書後來成了暢銷書。
Rowen的故事也被獨立製片拍成電影。The Horse Boy 電影官網
The Horse Boy 電影預告片：
HBO電影：Temple Grandin
Grandin從自己的經驗出發，投入對於自閉症和動物心靈的研究。她認為自閉症病人和動物的思考模式都是感官(sensation)式，而非像一般人是語言(language)式。Grandin的研究在協助自閉症病人和農場管理有很大的貢獻，目前美國1/3以上的農場管理系統都是Grandin設計的！
今年，HBO將Grandin的故事拍成電影，讓更多人認識Grandin和自閉症病人的世界！
Temple Grandin電影官網
Temple Grandin電影預告片：
ScienceShot: A Virtual Reality Body Swap
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/05/scienceshot-a-virtual-reality-bo.html?rss=1
by John Bohannon on May 12, 2010
In the virtual world, seeing is no longer just believing—it's being. In a new study, volunteers donned virtual reality goggles that put them in the body of a teenage girl in a virtual living room. The girl's mother stroked her on the shoulder while researchers simultaneously stroked the volunteers. Then, suddenly, the virtual mother slapped the girl—and the volunteers "felt" it. Their heart rates rapidly decelerated, a normal, initial response to a threat, even though there was no slap to their real faces. This is a sign that the subjects had begun to "own" their virtual body, the team reports today in PLoS ONE. The effect was much more powerful if the volunteers had a first-person perspective, looking out of the eyes of the girl, rather than hovering above her in a third-person perspective. As virtual games become more immersive, designers may have to keep health risks in mind.
More on virtual illusions:
How to Disown a Body Part
2010年5月25日 星期二
2010 Finalists｜ Best Illusion of the Year Contest
The winner was Koukichi Sugihara for Impossible Motion: Magnet-like Slopes. Here it is.
