BrainBlog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Broadcast on The BBC World Service . Available on podcast here . Body, memory, perception. Gormley, Mayer-Schoenberger, Lotto 14 Nov 09 Thu, 12 Nov 09 Duration: 49 mins "We like nothing better than talking about ourselves so this week’s Forum with Bridget Kendall casts a spotlight on the human brain and human form. One of Britain’s best known sculptors Antony Gormley looks at...
haha.nu (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Beau Lotto’s color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what you can’t normally see: how your brain works. This fun, first-hand look at your own versatile sense of sight reveals how evolution tints your perception of what’s really out there. @ haha.nu Related posts:A “Psychological” Optical Illusion10 Optical Illusions in 2 MinutesWhat Dictionaries...
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
CNN (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
In CNN.com's first TED Talk, Beau Lotto demonstrates the surprising power of illusion.
SimoleonSense (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
I hope you are enjoying your weekend. Introduction (Via Fora.Tv) To understand the human mind it is necessary to understand what we actually see when we open our eyes. Color suggests an answer to this question: we see not the world as it is, but a world that was useful to see in the past. Beau Lotto performs [...]
Mind Hacks (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... are collected at 3 Quarks Daily . Dr Petra has been upgraded ! Another good TED talk, this time by Beau Lotto on what optical illusions tell us about perception. Science News on research that a gene involved in vocal cord development may be a factor in a inherited speech disorder . There's a brief Q&A on the science of persuasion over at Nature . The BPS Research Digest covers...
