Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Paul Churchland, in his recent “Chimerical Colors: Som... from Cognitive Neuroscience” (2005), describes very od... experiences that are predicted by a neural model of chro... processing. In brief, the differential fatiguing and rec... processing

Archiving digital photos is hard if you want to do it ri... change. When Phanfare started back in 2004, Flash 7 was ... format on the web. Now H.264 is the standard for high qu... resolutions are always increasing. Phanfare can change w... carrying yo

I first encountered the term boundary object when reading %u201CDistributing intelligence, organizing diversity,%u... of a silicon alley new media firm. In it David Stark, re...
What Star teaches us is that the fact that we all un ...
Star, S. L. an

oundary Object: %u201CArtifacts, Documents and perhaps e... can help people from different communities build a share... Boundary objects will be interpreted differently by the ... communinities, and it is an acknowledgement and discussi... differences

Shadows are the topic of a book recently reviewed on the... website (The Shadow Club by Roberto Casati) - it's nothi... book, but here's a stunning optical illusion featuring s...
This optical illusion is reproduced with the permission ...
This is sim

Maps are universal forms of communication, easily unders... appreciated regardless of culture or language. This trul... introduces readers to the widest range of maps ever cons... volume: maps from different time periods and a variety o... made for di

Consciousness and Biology
* Patricia A. Carpenter, Professor of Pyschology, CMU
carpenter+@cmu.edu
* Christopher J. Davia, Visiting scholar, CMU, Cogni ...
... science, is available from Davia (davia@andrew.cmu.edu).

There are two within subject variables to be investigate... angle and the other is pair type. A graph like the one b... convenient display of the effects of these variables, wh... analyzed for significance using a 2 X 6 repeated measure...
In additio

Brainstorming is a widely used technique for groups to d... fresh perspectives on an issue, problem or project, and ... taught and used by team leaders and consultants working ... study by researchers at Texas A&M University, and publis...
The researc

The "Rare Book Room" site has been constructed as an edu ...
Over the last decade, a company called "Octavo" digitall ...
This site contains all of the books (about 400) that hav ...

A town council in Germany has decided the best way of im...
From September 12, all traffic controls will disappear f ...
In an area used by 13,500 cars every day, drivers and pe ...
"Traffic will no longer be dominant," he said.
The idea of removing sign

I’m fascinated by consciousness, I’ve studied it for... and I have some things to say about it.
My name is Robin Faichney and I’m a philosopher. (I’ ...

Architecture is often seen as the art of a thinking mind... organises and establishes relationships between the part... It is also seen as the art of designing spaces, which we... through movement and use. Conceptual ordering, spatial a... narrative a

Charissa Borroff
Born 1st May, 1977, Nottinghamshire, UK
"I draw landscapes in Charcoal, paint abstracts, and I'v ...
I grew up in Sherwood Forest. My family moved into Sherw ...
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"The Nature of Consciousness"
The Structure of Life and the Meaning of Matter" (2006)
by Piero Scaruffi
ISBN 0-9765531-1-2
A comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Cognitive Sci ...

ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2009) — A diet high in fat and ... carbohydrates, known as the "ketogenic" diet, quickens r... paralyzed rats after spinal cord injury, according to ne...

ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2009) — There are areas in the b... arms, legs, and various parts of our bodies. The way the... distributed throughout the brain are known as "body maps... some significant differences in these maps between left-... people. For

A network of brain regions which is activated during int... experience overlaps with the brain network associated wi... contemplation and self-assessment, New York University r... found. Their study sheds new light on the nature of the ... experience,

Functional magnetic resonance imaging of men and women u... neuroscientists how their brains differed in response to... situations. In men, increased blood flow to the left orb... suggested activation of the "fight or flight" response. ... activated t

Volume 63, Issues 4-5, Pages 363-536 (October 2005) ◄... Next vol/iss ►
Computer support for creativity
Edited by E.A. Edmonds, L. Candy

The intelligent use of space
David KirshE-mail The Corresponding Author
Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 9209 ...
Available online 6 April 2000.
... tasks, and how they continuously manage that workplace.

For years, only humans were thought to have this key cog... attributing “false belief,” which is believed to und... empathy, teaching, and perhaps even language. But three ... apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans—also know ... a false bel

E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such ... improve, but research suggests that reading on paper sti... advantages

In a recent blog post, Ikka warns that it is all too eac... ‘trapped’ in mindsets and personal routines that shu... potential serendipitous experiences. I think we’ve all... traps at some point in our lives; being too busy to be a...
In this blo

When tourists visit sub-Saharan Africa, they often wonde... no historical buildings or monuments?”
The reason is simple. Europeans have destroyed most of t ...

The service is focused on the idea of “You over Time,⮮.
Imagine Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr, Delicious, Facebook ...
Read on: the first 20 SitePoint readers to follow the li ...
My Life, The Digital Version
... nts of your own, family members, friend

On Sept. 13, 1848, at around 4:30 p.m., the time of day ... start wandering, a railroad foreman named Phineas Gage f... with gunpowder and turned his head to check on his men. ... normal moment of his life.
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