Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: New Scientist has a good feature article on how ‘crossing the senses‘ can help blind people ‘see’ with sounds and the like. There’s good update on the biology and effects of the recently ex-’legal high’ mephedrone over at DrugMonkey. NPR has been running a [...]
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January 15, 2010
Beyond crossed senses in synaesthesia
Cognitive Daily covers a super-elegant study that helps us understand whether synaesthesia is really just a case of 'crossed senses' or whether the perceptual blending effect requires the person to have processed some of the meaning of the triggering experience.The traditional explanation of most types of synaesthesia is that the brain's sensory areas are overly connected, so activation of one se
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June 19, 2009
Consumer Psychology
· How and why we consume and how our beliefs, ideas and senses influence consumption.Peter Drucker, the management consultant, famously argued that about 80% of all products and services fail or fall well short of targets within six months of launching. Clearly markets have little understanding of what consumers want -- perhaps because people have [...]» Visit happier.com for tools and test
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Consumer Psychology
· How and why we consume and how our beliefs, ideas and senses influence consumption.Peter Drucker, the management consultant, famously argued that about 80% of all products and services fail or fall well short of targets within six months of launching. Clearly markets have little understanding of what consumers want -- perhaps because people have [...]» Visit happier.com for tools and test
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May 31, 2009
Synaesthesia in Frankenstein
One of the new ideas in synaesthesia research is that affected people perhaps don't develop mixed senses as their brains develop, they just fail to lose them. It seems most children might start with naturally mixed senses before perception becomes segregated through pruning of the fuzzy neural pathways.I've just noted an interesting article in Cognitive Neuropsychology on how this idea actually h
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