Posts Tagged ‘perception’
not noticing
How we don’t notice things, how perception is very very selective, is not only demonstrated by a vast array of social psychology experiments, it’s the subject of entertaining and convincing demonstrations. Like this famous one: Another “look out for cyclists” ad from Transport for London works on the same principle:
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Tags: attention, awareness, brain, mind, noticing, perception, psychology, test, video
pigeon brain
Just read the chapter called “The Hound of Silence” in Dan Gilbert’s Stumbling on Happiness. This book is, of course, not a self-help book. It’s a look at the experiments that have paved the way to understanding how some of our illusions about what leads to happiness are created.In its overview it comes up with [...]
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Tags: Bacon, brain, choice, Cicero, Gilbert, mind, paradox, perception, pigeon, psychology
osmazome
So now I have discovered Jonah Lehrer. Shame there’s a hum on this excellent talk he gave, based on his book Proust Was A Neauroscientist. What I especially like here is his acknowledgemnet – it shouldn’t have been necessary, but bizarrely it is – that many outside the field of psychology and neurology can have [...]
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Tags: brain, history, Lehrer, osmazome, perception, sipidity, umami
