https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCkvZFoIgDk here is a video i found about anosmic that I think is very interesting.
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
post 1 ANOSMIC
Being anosmic is losing the sense of smell. A person who becomes diagnosed with anosmic can be a result from a large polyps in the sinuses as well as severely swollen turbinates which is the curving of the bone shelf that guides the air to the nasal receptors. Research has shown that there is currently, no known cure or treatment for congenital anosmia. However, other types of anosmia may be improved or cured when the underlying condition is treated. For example, if the cause is swelling in the nose or sinuses, steroids can usually clear this up and restore your sense of smell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCkvZFoIgDk here is a video i found about anosmic that I think is very interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCkvZFoIgDk here is a video i found about anosmic that I think is very interesting.
Sunday, June 21, 2020
Post #2: Anosmia
Anosmia is simply the loss of smell. When Karl Wuensch was diagnosed with anosmia, it took a toll on his life. Wuensch was diagnosed with anosmia due to large polyps in his sinuses and critically swollen turbinates. This disease is also remotely difficult to cure, about two million Americans are currently uncured of anosmia. Not only was it difficult to taste foods, but it also affected his relationships with those who surrounded him. He claimed the smell of people is what he missed the most out of every scent; as it affected his intimate and casual interactions. For food, he learned to enjoy more spicy dishes, which was something he could taste better. Fortunately, Wuensch's anosmia typically gets better with several treatments and he has been in remission for around three years now.
Saturday, June 20, 2020
Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Language
I was very interested while learning about mirror neurons in chapter 9, especially pertaining to the evolution of language, and how in humans, the neuron mirror system responds to both transitive and intransitive acts. This article that I’m linking makes an argument for how human language evolved from gestures and vocalizations as opposed to the hypothesis that human language was independently created by the human species. It refers to the experiment of Rizzolatti that was in this chapter, as well as others.
Friday, June 19, 2020
Blog Post #3 - Multisensory Perception (Chapter 10)
Chapter 10 discusses the multisensory perception, like lip reading. I have never really thought about lip reading and how often it is done and how much it is used since the day you are born. You lip read when you are in a quiet environment, learning a new language, as well as when you were learning your first language. The McGurk effect relates to lip reading, it demonstrates that we all lip-read and use visual speech information. I find it really interesting that this effect is used as a tool for us to understand the type of facial information we require for visual speech perception. We have always lip-read according to a study on a five-month-old baby. Babies perceive speech from faces.
Blog Post #2 - Seeing (Chapter 8)
Chapter 8 discusses the phenomenon, the uncanny valley effect, that describes how we react to seeing humanoid forms that posses nearly human characteristics, like robots or animated characters. I thought this was really interesting because humans can perceive robots, animated characters, and even stuffed animals as familiar and acceptable due to a few human characteristics these non-human objects may possess. The acceptance of the object falls into a "valley" where its appearance seems "uncanny". Once it lies in the valley we react to the appearance and discover that it is just human enough to notice that some human characteristics are not there.
Blog Post #1 - Sense of Smell (Chapter 3)
Chapter 3 discusses the sense of smell in relation to retrieving memories, specifically how scent adds emotion to how you remember your life. I found this really interesting because I can associate certain memories with scents. Odor-induced memories can bring a person back to a specific time and context. Research shows that scents can make a memory seem more emotional too. I have a difficult time remembering my early childhood, but I can remember certain times from smells.
Thursday, June 18, 2020
Anosmia (chapter 3)
Losing the ability to smell is something I could never imagine. Personally, I love to smell things as funny as that sounds. The smell of candles, fresh baked cookies, coconuts, anything you can think of. During my time here at stockton I met one of my best friends who actually no longer has the ability to smell. I always ask her how she can deal with it and if/how it affected her life. After reading about it in our textbook I figured it would be a great opportunity to ask her some questions about loosing one of her five senses.
1. What age did you lose your sense of smell?
8/9
2. What smell do you miss the most?
It's been so long I don't even really remember.
3. In what ways did losing you sense of smell affect you life?
Honestly, I do not really feel that it has impacted me by much.
4. Has loosing your sense of smell affected your tastebuds?
it's possible, I feel like I don't taste things the same way as everybody else. I need my food to be super salty or super sweet to like it.
5. Would you want to be able to smell again? (why or why not)
No, I'm fine with out a smell. Like I said, it has not really impacted me and I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxzvCDg09P0
In the youtube video listed below, it explains what anosmia is and how it is caused. It's a short video giving you some feedback on what you need to know about it such as warning signs, effects and treatments that are available for it.
Mirror Touch Synesthesia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ccnu-1Hkuc
Mirror Synesthesia is another rare variation of synesthesia that blows my mind. Mirror synesthesia is when an individual is able to experience a similar sensation in the same or opposite part of their body that another person is feeling. In the youtube video that I have listed, you will be introduced to Carolyn Hart, a women with this rare type of synesthesia. Carolyn talks about how she can look at someone with a cast, for an example a broken arm, and just by looking at it she can feel the pain. Carolyn describes her mirror touch as a helpful aspect in her life. In the video she talks about how helpful it can be for the individual in pain. For Carolyn, having this changes how she lives her life such as watching certain shows such as Game of Thrones. She mentions how she loves this show and is so interested by it yet there is so much violence she is not able to watch it because it will trigger her senses and she will be able to feel the violence on her own body.
Celebrities with Synesthesia
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/88417/12-famous-artists-synesthesia
After reading and learning about synthesisa, I found it not only interesting but that it is quite common, especially in the world of Hollywood. In the article listed above, it shows a handful of celebrities with different variations of synesthesia.
One artist that I am a huge fan who also has this "superpower" is, Billie Eilish. The article listed below talks about how Billie sees her music. In the article, Billie mentions two of her hit songs as colors,"Bury a Friend" as gray, black, brown—anything dark—while "Xanny" is more velvety, “like if you could feel smoke.” Synesthesia is something I find extremely interesting especially when it comes to people seeing their music as colors. For me personally, I have always associated and saw the number four as purple and the number 8 as green. Before this class and reading the chapter on this, I never really understood why or how. After learning and researching it more I find it so interesting that so many people see and learn this way and have different variations of this "superpower".
https://www.iheart.com/content/2019-05-29-billie-eilish-explains-how-synesthesia-affects-her-music/
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Lip reading
People that are either deaf or hard of hearing rely on reading lips to understand what is being said to them. The tongue plays in important role in distinguishing many vowels and consonants to help a deaf person have a conversation. A person that is hard of hearing also uses face motion to detect the words being said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1jLkYyODsc
Post #3 Anosmia
Anosmia can be exceptionally hard to learn to deal with. Anosmia is referred to as a loss of the sense of smell. I can be totally or partially loss. This can be caused by a head injury, upper respiratory tract infection, or blockage in the nose. It has a second name as smell blindness. Many people do not see how this can be very upsetting to be diagnose with. I personally could not imagine. The attached video is very educational on a year of hope for anosmia.
Post #2 Auditory Approach
I find it so interesting learning about our auditory approach system. Auditory approach system is defined as changes in sound as the loudness increases from the sound that is being projected. Our use of auditory approach system is something that many of us could be completely unaware of. I personally never knew there was a name for this! We all can hear him coming sounds and unconsciously do what we need to do to guard ourselves to a safe environment. Our auditory approach system kicks in and warns us. A great way for us to hear an approaching sound and know how to defend ourselves.
Post #1 McGurk Effect
The McGurk Effect is known as a change in auditor perception induced by incongruent visual speech, resulting in a single percept of hearing something other than what the voice is saying. This is very interesting to learn about. In the video I attached explains it very well. When they did a side-by-side it was interesting how just by looking at two different sides of the computer I heard two different things. On the left all I heard was “va” and on the right I heard “ba”. This video is very important to understand and to know the accuracy of unisensory components is reflected into audiovisual speech perception!
Our Sense of Body Ownership
The rubber hand illusion, as well as the out-of-body experience explained in chapter 6, led me to question the components that allow us a sense of body ownership. We know from the rubber hand illusion that visual and tactile input together, synchronously creating an illusion, can trick our brains into feeling as if the rubber hand is our own. It appears as though the movement (the synchronous stroking) in both of the aforementioned experiments was critical to creating a false sense of body ownership. Our own movement, or action, is intimately connected to our sense of body ownership– we know what is part of our body from our conscious control over it. The article I’m linking explores our sense of body ownership, suggesting that action is critical to self-recognition, which is a key component of ownership.
https://www.the-scientist.com/features/understanding-body-ownership-and-agency-31597
A Cat Born Without Eyes
We probably don't think about it often, but humans are not the only ones that may have trouble in perceiving the world as it is. This cat was born without eyes but it was able to adapt through the use of its whiskers and ears. The cat was able to detect changes in the air through its whiskers, similar to how humans were described to do in Rosenblum's book about our five senses. The video shows how the cat was able to adapt to the point where the owners would occasionally forget that their cat is blind and it would difficult to remember as their cat is able to play, move, and jump around without any difficulty. The cat is even able to go up and down the stairs without any problem now, due to the owners having taught it the distance between each step by tapping. It's amazing how an animal is able to adapt so well without sight.
Post #3 Just add some paint
While reading See what I'am Saying by Lawrence Rosenblum chapter 6 introduces blind painter John Bramblitt. A man who could see all his life until his late twenties he was hit by an unseen car, leaving him blind. If you a familiar with the chapter, John talks about how he uses a special brand of paint that dries quick to allow him to feel what he is painting. He makes comments about how different color feel different, like black being thin and slick while white feeling thick. So after reading this chapter I decided to look up some of the art that John made, and I wanted to share it with anyone who reads this post. John even has a website and book that I will be linking below, there you can see the art he drew, and a short video on John.
https://bramblitt.com/
https://bramblitt.com/
Post #3- The McGurk Effect
The McGurk Effect occurs when what you see by reading lips while simultaneously listening to a similar audio clip overrides the auditory sound. In other words, what we see overrides what we see. The video attached features Lawrence Rosenblum, the author of “See What I’m Saying”, and in the video, he shows the viewers first hand, the McGurk effect. The video opens with Rosenblum moving his lips to spell out “ba”. Simultaneously, the audio is playing the sound “ba”. After a few seconds of this, Rosenblum changes his lip movement to sound out “va”, while the audio remains untouched. However, as a viewer, you should hear the audio change as the lip movements change. To prove the theory, creators of the video put the two clips side by side and played the same audio previously heard. When one looks at the “ba” lip movements, they hear ba and vice versa with the “va” lip movements. This video proves to viewers that visual perception has the power to override auditory perception.
Post #3: Becoming a Sommelier
When reading the chapter about becoming a sommelier, it was interesting to learn how much work and time goes into their training. To be able to taste a wine and know exactly which it is and where it was made is extremely difficult considering there are so many different types of wine from all over. Before even reading the book I had watched a video on the process and training to become a master sommelier which followed Vincent on the road to his exam. As the book explained, many take the test multiple times before passing and this was the case with Vincent. Working so hard and not passing is extremely difficult. Below is the video documenting Vincent's journey to the master sommelier test. During the time Vincent was taking the test, it was actually revealed that one of the members on the panel had leaked information that would be on the test. Due to the leak, Vincent and everyone in his testing class was required to take the test again.
Post #2- Tadoma
I have always naturally been very interested in the way deaf-blind people communicate. I have heard about Helen Keller, but never understood how she communicated until now. Tadoma is used by deaf-blind people to properly communicate. In Tadoma, the deaf-blind individual places their hand on the talker’s face and tries to accurately interpret what they are saying. Most Tadoma users place their hands on the lips of the talker while some place their hand on the chin and cheek of the talker. The hand placement comes down to experience and comfort for the Tadoma-user. In the video, you can see, deaf-blind individual David Geyer places his hands on the lips and cheeks of the talker. To answer the talker, he then places his hands on his own lips and chin to ensure he is making the right movements with his lips and is conveying what he wants to say. The article attached speaks about how research proves that the performance of this technique “is roughly equivalent to that of normals listening in noise or babble with a signal-to-noise ratio in the range 0-6 dB.” Following lip and jaw movement, airflow, and vibrations can help users of Tadoma communicate very efficiently, almost as efficiently as normals.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3973218/Post #2: Sense of Smell
When reading about anosmia and the loss of the sense of smell, I felt as though this would be the easiest sense to lose. I thought that dealing with the loss of smell would be easier than going blind or losing my sense of taste, but then after reading, I was reminded how much smell has an effect on our sense of taste. and in Karl Wuensch's case, I wondered if it was better to be born without the sense of smell all together or to lose it later in life as he did. I began to look up information on anosmia outside of the book to see stories about others with anosmia, some who were born with it, and others who developed it later on in life as Karl did. The video below is an example of a person who was born without a sense of smell.
Post #1: The Rubber Hand Illusion
When reading about the rubber hand illusion in the book, I realized that I have seen this often on television. Until reading the book, Although the book explains how this happens fairly well, I have seen the video below on a television show and felt that this was also a great explanation of the rubber hand illusion.
Monday, June 15, 2020
Post #2 The highest form of flattery - Mimicking
While reading "See What I'm Saying" by Lawrence Rosenblum, Chapter 9 talks about mimicking, how at a young age you begin to mimic facial expressions and how you change your facial posture. In the begining of the chapter we are introduced to Marilyn Micheals, a famous impressionist. She has appeared on Tv's shows since the 1960's. But you might be asking yourself, why bring her up, why this topic? As the title might tell you, I firmly believe that the highest form of flattery, is mimicking. You have people, who look, act, or even dress like the person they idealize the most. in the link below is famous singer Ariana Grande, watching tik toks of other girls, impersonating her, Grande does state how its crazy that someone looks like her, and is mixing her two worlds, one being when she was on Tv as a child star, and now how she is an adult and song writer. But I ask this to anyone who comments, would you be freaked out if someone starting mimicking you, would you be flattered or freaked out? Me, I think I would be flattered if it was harmless, but the moment it gets like weird, I would be freaking out, but I am not a famous million dollar song writer.
Down below I linked the youtube video of Ariana Grande giving her thoughts about the subject.
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Synesthesia
Honestly, the first thing that came to my mind when reading about synesthetes was the movie Ratatouille because I have never really had a solid idea as to what synesthesia was. So, I thought of it as something close to what the main character, Remy, sees when he eats food. Whenever he describes the flavor and texture of the food he eats, colors appear in waves and changes in pops and snaps as Remy describes the food. The colors also mix together when he combines different foods together. I'm not sure if this would be considered as synesthesia, as I still don't have a good grasp on what synesthetes experience, but I have come to associate Remy's experience with synesthesia.
Post #1- Synesthesia- What color is Tuesday
Friday, June 5, 2020
Post #1 Out-of-body, out-of-mind
While reading See What I'm Saying: the Extraordinary Powers of Our Five Senses written by Lawrence D Rosenblum, I was reading chapter 6, Rubber hands and Rubber brains. At the end of the chapter it gave an experience know as the Out-of-body experience is when someone strokes your chest wit a stick, your vision is obstructed( you who is received the experience has video goggles on that only allow you to see a what a camera is projecting) so you only feel the strokes, and with the other hand from the experimenter, he strokes the air at a position below the camera, this making you feel that the arm used to stroke the air is the one stroking your chest. But people say out-of-body experience can be a sort of witchcraft, or in other words Astral projecting I put the link of the article down below because I am not sure if I linked it right via the post settings. But I am a practicing witch, I have no doubt telling and posting about it, but from what I about astral projecting is that it dangerous. Most people say out-of-body experiences are usually caused by drugs like hallucinogenics. To me, it hard to just cause a out-of-body experience without the usage of drugs, everything has to be and set perfectly. But who knows maybe one day we will be able to use technology to allow anyone to have an out-of-body experience.
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Post #1: The Importance of Scent Aroma
The way different scents affect moods in distinct situations or places is pretty interesting to me. I remember learning about environmental aromas in previous psychology courses, however, the book definitely goes more into depth. In my opinion, it is interesting how casinos and retail stores can lure you in to stay longer because of scent manipulation. A casino in Las Vegas discovered an aroma that is capable of keeping the public gambling for longer amounts of time. Retail stores also use this strategy by using scents tailored to each department, such as a baby powder scent in the baby apparel section, etc. Although scent aroma is a psychology-based strategy, it also plays a huge role in marketing. Individuals shopping will rate the store a higher rating if it is infused with a delightful scent and will be more likely to purchase something. I have definitely experienced scent aroma while shopping, for example, if I am buying swimwear and it smells like sunscreen or coconut I feel like I'm more influenced to buy a bathing suit than not.
Monday, June 1, 2020
Beep Ball Blind Baseball
Having played baseball most of my life, admittedly I would never think this would be so possible! I wouldn't say I was skeptical when reading this, I was more in shock. To be able to begin or continue a sport you love without having vision to see is truly remarkable. It shows us how strong our senses can really be. This section showed me how much value our hearing, and feeling has, as you are able to continue every day living and activities with sight being taken away. As described in the book, it certainly isn't an easy task, but as beep baseball shows when you put work in to what you love, anything can be possible. I think this also gives a lot of hope for people who may be losing or have never had the gift of vision.
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