So we have made progress in the experiment I am doing at Professor Peter Tse’s lab at Dartmouth College. We have settled on four preliminary conditions, and are now getting ready to do some pilot testing to a) figure out if we can make people see about 50 % local and 50 % global in [...]
So says Chris Mccandless, quoting Henry David Thoreau, in the movie Into the Wild. I could be tempted to quote him, when discussing the movies I’ve seen in the last week. Except, I don’t need truth in movies at all – I just need them to be believable!
I saw Darjeeling Limited last weekend and, like [...]
This is the prototype of one kind of stimuli that we will be using in the fMRI project that I am currently taking part in. The idea is that you can see this stimuli in two ways, either local (pairs of dots spinning around each other) or global (two squares spinning around each other, or [...]
Yeah, so I got the data back from the fMRI experiment that I took part in and played around with them a little. Besides from the fun, it feels pretty weird looking at your second favourite organ (apologies to Woody Allen) in this way. You can help but think: “Is this it?” But maybe that’s [...]