Over decades of study, University of Virginia psychologist Dennis Proffitt has shown that we are each living our own personal version of Gulliver’s Travels, where the size and shape of the things we see are scaled to the size of our bodies, and our ability to interact with... (展开全部...
How Culture Shape Your Perception Kristen Lindquist Powerful emotions feel like irrefutable facts. They wash over us, take over our bodies, and change our perceptions. We call this ‘affective realism’ where your emotional experiences feel like the...
It is clear that memories of one’s body are important to individuals with AN, who often compare their current bodies to how they ‘used to be’. If losing weight, individuals report feeling smaller and ‘better’ than before, but if gaining weight, such as during recovery, they report ...
This perception-action loop is the dynamo at the center of our cognition. In fact, perception makes up most of what we think of as cognition to begin with. As Louise Barrett puts it inBeyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds(Princeton University Press), â...
Of 2 Minds: How Fast and Slow Thinking Shape Perception and Choice [Excerpt]Daniel Kahneman
Now, there’s many kinds and levels of AI, and people confuse these and conflate them. The first kind of AI is just computers doing stuff that we try to do in our minds, like calculate what a parabola is, how fast a car is going to go, or how much money a bu...
Wexler (2008) wants us to recognize how integrated our minds are with the external world by stating, "The relationship between the individual and the environment is so extensive that it almost overstates the distinction between the two to speak of a relationship at all" (p. 39). Sensory ...
Innovative practices must be implemented to keep astronauts’ bodies and minds healthy during these long-duration space missions. With the upcoming moon missions, there is a gap in knowledge about how long lengths of time on the moon will affect crew members’ mental health and wellness. There ...
"But meanwhile I marvel at how prone my mind is to errors... For we say that we see the wax itself, if it is present, and not that we judge it to be present from its color or shape" (Section 32). In our common speech we turn around the relationship between cognition and sensory...
disentangling aesthetic processing from basic perceptual processing. It also sheds light on how the affective and cognitive influences interact to modulate aesthetic preferences under top-down and bottom-up control. In support of this model, we present findings from cognitive neuroscience, neuroaesthetics,...