Vision is a crazy thing, can't you see that? Your eyes can really play tricks on you. After watching this video, it is eye-opening (pun intended) on how complex our vision really is. Vision is considered one of the most dominant senses, however it can also play tricks on your mind because it does take so much of your brain to process what we are looking at. This video shows the anatomony of the your eye and helps show how complex our vision is and how we should may not always trust what we think we see!
Thursday, June 24, 2021
The Magic of Making Sound: Foley Artists in Hollywood
The Magic of Making Sound
Multi Sensory Function
The chapter discusses two different types of multisensory functions. This means using more then one sensory at a time, so this means using sight, hearing, touch, or taste.
One example with the moving room method. The moving room method used an observer and placed her in a small three walled room that constantly moved back and forth. Standing up on a force plate, the observer would observe the change in posture , being that the method would demonstrate your multi senses are being used to forcefully stand still.
Monkey’s do not have high levels of audiovisuals that are used in heard calls and mouth configurations. For their audiovisual calls they use brain regions which are analogous to humans. So, they are using multisensory functions to (speech) communicate.
Link to :
Multisensory connections of monkey auditory cerebral cortex
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19619628/
Smile its Good For You
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Sommelier's are wine stewards' that are trained precisely in the knowledge of all things wine, and usually work in fine dining restaurants. Scientist believe their brains work on very high levels of activation in the right olfactory and memory parts of the brain. They also have a lower chance of getting alzheimers. The left hemisphere of the brain that processes analytical data is increased in activity which allows them to have a intellectual experience when tatsting the wine.
The Science of Falling in "Love"
Pheromones are chemical signals that are released to attract the opposite sex to mate for sexual reproduction. Unlike hormones, they act as messengers go potential mates. They were first discovered in insects. They can be found in glands in our armpits, genital regions, and navels which secretes a clear liquid. What you might think is love, might actually be some pheromones! Click on the video below to learn a little bit more about them and how they play a role in a persons life!
https://time.com/3707071/pheromones-love-life/
Echolocation
Echolocation uses sound waves and echoes to find out where objects are in a space. Echolocation is used for humans and for animals to, specifically bats and dolphins. Humans use echolocation by clicks. If someone is blind, they can tap their walking stick, make noises with their mouth or even stomp there feet. It helps blind people get around and be able to do daily tasks the same as people with their eyesight. Below is a video that explains how they can use echolocation to help them everyday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHYCs8xtzUI
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Symmetry
Blog post 3
Symmetry
The topic of symmetry was fascinating since I only knew that we find people who are more symmetrical as more attractiveness. Symmetry is the equivalence a person has comparing the sides of their body and face. All people are different on their two sides of the body, but it is the extent of it that determines how symmetrical one is. Low body symmetry is when a person is less symmetrical on the two sides of their body and that the differences are more drastic. Where high body symmetry is the opposite and is when someone is more symmetric and similar on both sides of their body. It has been known that low body symmetry plays a part in animals’ genetics and health, but recently they have found that it also can play a role in human’s health. People with low symmetry are a sign of predicted worse genetic, physical, and mental health. This is usually due to genetics; therefore, we tend to prefer those who are more symmetric for the health of our offspring. Since we all have our unique smell, people are more attracted to the smell of high symmetry.
I found this to be remarkably interesting since no one is perfectly symmetrical so the idea that the more symmetrical you are the better is crazy since most of the time we do not notice it immediately. I was also surprised to learn that body symmetry is an indication of a person’s health. Unconsciously we must know this since when females are in their fertile phase, they find the smell of high body symmetry men to be more attractive. Symmetry is interesting since we not only notice it visually but also through smell.
A video I found gave a good explanation about body symmetry and attractiveness:
Reference
Rosenblum, L. D. (2011). See what I'm saying: the extraordinary powers of our five senses. W.W. Norton.
Echolocation
Blog post 2
Echolocation
As I first started reading, See What I’m Saying, I was immediately compelled by Daniel Kish, Brian Bushway, and Megan O’Rourke riding their bikes. Riding a bike is something that would not be considered compelling, but they were blind and riding bikes better than I could. This shows my naiveness to the subject. These bike riders would use echolocation to determine their location and navigate through it. They would make a clicking noise and would use the time delay between the chick and the sound reflected to determine how far a silent object was. Therefore, the father an object was the longer it would take to be reflected. Daniel Kish would train other visually impair to “achieve freedom” through echolocation.
Previously I thought echolocation was only done by bats and now learning that humans echolocate as well is very eye-opening to what our perception can do. Echolocation is something that we all do, and we do not necessarily need to produce sound to do it. Echolocation allows visually impaired people to sense their surroundings and can be beneficial. I found Kish to be very inspiring and fascinating and caused me to be excited to read more about perception.
After learning about Daniel Kish, I wanted to know more about him.
I found a ted talk of him explaining how he echolocates:
Similarly I also found a video of Kish performing echolocation while riding a bike like read in the book, See What I’m Saying:
Reference
Rosenblum, L. D. (2011). See what I'm saying: the extraordinary powers of our five senses. W.W. Norton.
Post 3 synesthesia
Synesthesia is something that is pretty interesting. The ability to have the brain give you a different response to a stimulus that should not have happend is cool on its own even better when you look into it. https://elemental.medium.com/seeing-sounds-what-its-like-to-live-with-synesthesia-fcec02831a1 there are a lot of interviews with people who have this. This is just one article on it. A quick YouTube search will throw more. https://synesthesia.com/#/Task/0/0/gateway-synesthesia-test-synaesthesia-test-quick-version/1011 and this is a test to take to see if you have synesthesia.
The brain having multiple responses means that you have the ability to taste or hear a color. Something that a regular person can not. That then asks the question does blue sound the same to everyone? I'm not sure if anyone has looked into that but the idea is cool.
post 2 sommelier
https://youtu.be/5PeKcWCC-tw Watch this first then come back to read. So one of the things that was talked about was people who are able to taste the difference in wines and that's there whole job. Though the video above has research that says it's not really possible or a thing. They tested it buy saying one wine was expensive and the other not and making the illusion that it was super extensive. In doing this they tricked them into thinking that one was better. But in fact they were both the same. In a way it's like how the author of the book eat in a pitch black restaurant and the food tasted different.
post 1 ecolocation
human ecolocation is one of the first things that the book brings up and its pretty interesting stuff. One of the main things that caught my eye was that Normal people can use this same skill and don't need a whole lot of practice to use it. The book talks about the people already use sound to figure out there surrounding and it talks about bats doing it as well. One of the interesting thing about bats is this https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/are-bats-blind?qt-news_science_products=0# Bats are actually able to see. They just use sound to help them just like we use sound to help navigate around. Its something interesting to think about. Justin c
Post #3 Proxy Touch - Angelina Marte
Proxy Touch
Proxy touch is in the same field as echolocation. They can be intentionally used for the same things such as finding doorways, curbs and other inanimate objects. Proxy touch is where one uses a single object to touch something else. For example, one using a knife to butter a piece of toast. You're not using your hand to hold the butter, you are holding an object that allows you to touch another substance. Another example is brushing you hair, one touches the hair brush or comb that brushes out the hair. You're not using your hands to brush your hair, you are using an object to perceive another object.
For an individual who is blind, they can sometimes use a can or guide dog to help them perceive the world around them. You can use proxy touch for judging things like distance, recognizing your body dimension, and ground identification. The opportunities are near endless when it comes to proxy touch because of the endless amount of uses for it. Below is a link leading to an article from The Washington Post on touch. Also below is a video explain an app I use called "Be My Eyes," it's an app where if a person hard of sight is in need, they call it's like a facetime call where you help them with little things such as picking out your outfit, or reading some mail.
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