posts tagged ‘brain’
Linguistic relativity
7 September 2010 • out of context
tags: brain, language, perception
“The linguistic relativity principle, or the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, is the idea that differences in the way languages encode cultural and cognitive categories affect the way people think, so that speakers of different languages think and behave differently because of it. A strong version of the hypothesis holds that language determines thought and that linguistic categories limit and determine cognitive categories. A weaker version states that linguistic categories and usage influence thought and certain kinds of non-linguistic behaviour.”
Prior to the advent of brain
31 August 2010 • out of context
tags: brain, colours, pain, perception, quotes, senses, smell, sound
“Prior to the advent of brain, there was no color and no sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably rather little sense and no feeling or emotion. Before brains the universe was also free of pain and anxiety.”
Exteroceptive/Interoceptive
8 August 2010 • out of context
tags: body, brain, etymology, meaning, pain, perception
Exteroceptive
Main Entry: ex·tero·cep·tive
Pronunciation: \ˌek-stə-rō-ˈsep-tiv\
Function: adjective
Etymology: exterior + -o- + -ceptive (as in receptive)
Date: 1906
: relating to, being, or activated by stimuli received by an organism from outside
Interoceptive
Main Entry: in·ter·o·cep·tive
Pronunciation: \ˌin-tə-rō-ˈsep-tiv\
Function: adjective
Etymology: interior + -o- + -ceptive (as in receptive)
Date: circa 1921
: of, relating to, or being stimuli arising within the body and especially in the viscera
We can’t be impersonal
7 August 2010 • out of context
tags: books, brain, perception, quotes
“We can’t be impersonal, not when it’s our own home.”
Zen and the Brain by James H. Austin
Cryptoamnesia
4 August 2010 • out of context
tags: analysis, articles, brain, perception, quotes, texts
“Cryptoamnesia is characterized by having a thought you’ve had before without realizing that you have had the thought before. The easiest way to observe cryptoamnesia is in episodes of plagiarism where the plagiarist is completely unaware that the text existed previously. (…) These anecdotes elucidate a common underlying mechanism of memory. Every time we recall a memory it is immersed in a narrative context. Usually the context of the memory is correctly recalled, however, in certain circumstances, it can be forgotten. Without a narrative context for an idea or memory, we tend to make one up. Therefore we may consider a memory remembered out of context a novel idea.”
Pirotecnia para los tímpanos y la corteza cerebral
25 July 2010 • out of context
tags: articles, books, brain, cinema, dreams, quotes, senses, sound, texts, walking, waves
“El aire que vibra, la membrana que palpita, el hueso que se mueve, el líquido que oscila y los impulsos electroquímicos que se precipitan como fuentes sobre el cerebro expectante.
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Los sonidos tienen un acceso más directo al Subconsciente que la información visual.
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Más allá de los efectos dramáticos o psicoacústicos, los ruidos y sonidos pueden generar un espacio de experiencia perfectamente físico.
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Según su propia etimología (sensatio), las sensaciones hacen referencia a sentir (sentire), es decir, al tacto, por lo tanto también a la relación mecánica del cuerpo con su entorno mediante la tracción y la resistencia.
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El sonido es parte del cuerpo, penetra en él con sus ondas sonoras y nos afecta físicamente. Creo que este es uno de los motivos por los que puede emocionarnos tanto.
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Siempre me ha encantado evadirme, ya fuera mediante un paseo, un libro, películas o sueños; y es ahora cuando me doy cuenta de lo que he hecho estos últimos años. He practicado agujeros que daban a mis otros mundos.”
Pirotecnia para los tímpanos y la corteza cerebral by Ralf Beil
Readings
4 June 2010 • readings
tags: aesthetics, articles, brain, consumism, criticism, installations, science, senses, smell, texts
• Sensational technologies [read]
Annet Dekker and Vivian van Saaze. Digital Creativity 2005, Vol. 16, No. 2.
• Speaking of Art as Embodied imagination: A Multisensory Approach to Understanding Aesthetic Experience
Annamma Joy and John F. Sherry, Jr. Journal of Consumer Research, Inc. Vol. 30, September 2003.
• The Aesthetics of Smelly Art
Larry Shiner and Yulia Kriskovets. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65:3 Summer 2007.
• (Re)Confirming the Conventions - An Ontology of the Olfactory [read]
Helen Paris.
Watchings
7 March 2010 • watchings
tags: appropriationism, brain, cinema, comedy, documentaries, dreamachine, economy, fantasy, fiction, flicker, hallucinations, humour, sex, structuralism, television
• Flicker (2008)
Nik Sheehan
• Heroes, Volume 5: Redemption (2009-2010)
• Muchachada Nui, 4ª temporada (2010) [watch]
• The Girlfriend Experience (2009)
Steven Soderbergh
• Outer Space (1999) [watch]
Peter Tscherkassky
• Arnulf Rainer (1958-1960) [watch]
Peter Kubelka
Induced Seizures
18 November 2009 • out of context
tags: body, brain, flicker, patterns, sound, waves
Epileptic Seizure Comparison by Paul Sharits