Austin Rosas Dr. Nevitt Intro to Psych. 2 October 2017 Article Analysis 1 My article of choice was a quite interesting one, the name of this article was, What is Synesthesia? By Anna Medaris Miller a staff writer for the U.S. News. Synesthesia has been a more common thing today but only very few in the world population have it. According to researchers it isn’t considered a disease or a mental issue as it doesn’t strike any harm and it’s simply a different way someone’s perception for colors and symbols/letters/numbers became combined and correlated within each other. This is commonly known as joint senses. Krish Sathian, head of neurology at Penn State said in the article “These individuals are very unusual in that you have this stimulus
She persuaded me as the audience, and I respect her as a writer. The strength of this article lies in its use of factual evidence. She quotes experts and references multiple studies and experiments. Repeatedly she speaks of neuroscientists Matthew Liberman, Naomi Eisenberger, and Jamil
The second quarter of school is always the busiest. The homework, and quizzes fill the week leaving small amounts of time for reading, but there's this one book that had me hanging on it’s every page. A fiction book that brings an interesting twist to the way I see Christmas; Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich. The holiday snuck up on Stephanie Plum once again, and she finds herself trying to apprehend a toy maker named Sandy Claws while complaining about her total lack of Christmas cheer. To add to it all, a hot guy named Diesel mysteriously materialized into her kitchen and won't leave her alone. He insists that he’s there to help her catch the toy maker, and bring her the holiday cheer. Stephanie sets out to hunt down her jailbailer
Synesthesia, or the blending of senses, is used very powerfully in this Lakota story. While the coyote is on Iktomi’s back he begins to “blue wink”. This intrigues the audience, as most have not heard of a blue wink before. The story then goes on to describe the origin of the phrase, creating a lesson about not being too prideful, within the lesson that encompasses the entire story. The use of synesthesia brings this lesson sandwich home by providing an interesting way of describing these prideful or childish moments, ensuring that the lesson will be remembered. Memorability is a goal of any trickster story as the primary motive is to impart
Sound waves: Changes in pressure caused by molecules of air or fluid colliding and moving apart again.
Scientists started to "explore the concept that regions in our brain once thought to activate only our own activity or sensations are also firing what are known as mirror neurons, when we witness someone else perform
Synesthesia is when any two or more senses of the human body or perceptual pathways are linked. When one sense is activated so is another. So when you are eating, you may feel as if you are tasting a color instead, or when you see a color you may think of a shape. It affects 1 out of 2,000 peopled believed to be genetic, it is demonstrated more commonly in females and individuals who are left handed. Synesthesia is not diagnosed as a disease, those affected usually have average intelligence and no greater risk of mental disorders.
Dzevdet Smajlovic, professor from the Department of Neurology at the University of Tuzla in Bosnia stated that
On a very rare occasions, there is a late onset on adults. Recently discovered to cause intellectual and
The next time someone says, “I feel your pain”, they might be speaking in literal terms. But, suppose you ask a co-worker what day it is and they reply, “Yellow”. People such as these likely have synesthesia, a condition where they taste sounds, see words in color and/or feel other people’s feelings.
In the paper "Epiphenomenal Qualia," Frank Jackson presents the concept of Qualia and the knowledge argument in order to prove physicalism false. Jackson 's knowledge argument introduces a thought experiment about a neuroscientist called Mary. His thought experiment is designed to refute physicalism by showing that there is non-physical knowledge in the world. However, there are many flaws in Jackson 's thought experiment that lead to its ultimate failure in proving that physicalism is wrong, such as its appeal to a misleading intuition, the ambiguity of its premises, and the assumption that it is possible to gain all physical knowledge of color from a colorless room.
Everything is normal. No decaying gray matter, no basal ganglia deficits, nothing. Exhilaration flows through me as the answer races through my mind.
It was based on the results from Functional magnetic resonance imaging on a CBS patient. Santhouse et al. (2000) have found from their studies that the colour of the images seen by the patients were exceptionally vivid. This can be explained by the enhanced activity within the area V4 in the fusiform gyrus, where colour processes occur in the brain (ffytche and Howard
I read the article, “Secrets of the Brain”, found in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic written by Carl Zimmer. I chose this subject because I have been fascinated with the brain and how it works. The research of the brain has been ongoing for many centuries now. The history in this article is interesting. It explained how scientists used to understand the brain and its inner workings. For example, “in the ancient world physicians believed that the brain was made of phlegm. Aristotle looked on it as a refrigerator, cooling of the fiery heart. From his time through the Renaissance, anatomists declared with great authority that our perceptions, emotions, reasoning, and actions were all the result of “animal spirits”—mysterious, unknowable vapors that swirled through cavities in our head and traveled through our bodies.” (Zimmer, p. 38)
Jeremy, your thorough discussion of the research process, as well as the examples of sample questions to ask to gain data to the popularity of each The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, is an exemplary plan. Also, the use of charts and graphs as you mentioned is a strategic visual introduction of the data collected. As a matter of fact, those two shows have been televised for an extended amount of years. Namely, Oprah Winfrey has hit almost 25 years of existence on network television (Oles, 2010, para. 1). Furthermore, Oprah Winfrey has gained paramount success, as well as influence over her fans (Oles, 2010, para. 2). As a result, “her personal image affects her company’s image” (Oles, 2010, para. 4).
-James Gross: Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory.