Following the sensemaking workshop at CHI ‘09, we collaboratively produced a poster to showcase our progress (although Dan Russell made the actual poster). It represents a condensed synthesis of my workshop notes [previous post].
We have noticed for some time that Asian populations tend excel in Math and Science but I haven’t heard a convincing argument for why this may be until now. Malcolm Gladwell, author of the well-acclaimed “Tipping Point” and “Blink,” has written a new book called “Outliers: The Story of Success.” While Roger Gathman has some [...]
There is new evidence that memories are stored in the same neurons that experienced the memory in the first place. Although this sounds expected—researchers have assumed this for some time—this is the first study that actually demonstrates it.
Their Method:
These researchers implanted tiny electrodes into the brains of epilepsy patients (specifically in the hippocampus, which is [...]
A paper by Oxley et al. in Science (September 2008, 321(5896), pp. 1667-1670) explores how people’s inherent tolerance for sudden noises and threatening visual images relates to their political attitudes. They found that people with lower sensitivities to such disruptions (or higher tolerances) were more likely to support foreign aid, liberal immigration policies, pacifism, and [...]
Dr. Margaret Livingstone, a Professor of Neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School, has been studying the human visual system, and specifically how we process visual information. Although I find that this can be a fairly dry topic, she has applied her understanding of how vision works to offer an explanation for why the Mona Lisa’s [...]
