Perception

What Sleight Of Hand Reveals About Brain Function

| Mariette DiChristina | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Magic, Neuroscience, Video, Cognitive Science, Pseudoscience, Neuromagic, James Randi, Psychology, Magician, Skepticism, Perception, Science News

“I see you have a watch with a buckle.” Standing at my side, Apollo Robbins held my wrist lightly as he turned my hand over and back. I knew exac...

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My Dad Waterskied in a Leisure Suit: Why Peers Matter

Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Peers, Perception, Mentoring, Business, Skills Peers, Business News
Lisa Earle McLeod

When it comes to waterskiing, I'm going to spend more time in the slow lane. But when it comes to business, I need to hang out with people who are exploding out of the water.

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Why Some People Are Better At Drawing Than Others

Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Art, Video, Cognitive Science, Brain, Psychology of Creativity, Drawing, Psychology, Brain Science, Perception, Better at Drawing, Good at Drawing, Science News

Since the dawn of human art-making, the divide has been clear: There are people who can effortlessly sketch an object's likeness, and people who...

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Grabbing Hold of Reality: Engaging Energetically With Our Lives

Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D. | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: The Balanced Life, Consciousness, Reality, The Future, Lifestyle Choices, Consciousness Future, Perception, Culture, Consciousness and Reality, Consciousness Reality, Healthy Living News
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.

To make a lasting change in the years ahead many of us will need to awaken from our passive slumber and grab hold of reality, reaching out to our world, recognizing our creative immersion, and engaging energetically with our lives.

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Trayvon Martin is a Victim of Selective Perception

BJ Gallagher | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Paradigms, Thomas Kuhn, Stereotypes, Selective Perception, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Trayvon Martin, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Psychology, George Zimmerman, Prejudice, Perception, Race Relations, Crime News
BJ Gallagher

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are," wrote French diarist Anais Nin. This is not just true of George Zimmerman, the Florida man...

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Perception and Putting: How Does Tiger "See" Augusta?

Wray Herbert | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Vision, Slumps, Golf, Streaks, Tiger Woods, The Masters, Visionary Heuristic, Sports Performance, Perception, Motivation, Confidence, Tiger Woods Masters, Science News
Wray Herbert

Perception and sight are so crucial to putting that one has to wonder: What does the slumping Tiger see? Is it something different than the dominant Tiger saw in his heyday? New research may offer some insight on this question.

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The Way Ahead: Changing Our Internal Narratives

Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Consciousness, Lifestyle Choices, Inner Life, Mythology, War of the Worldviews, Sustainability, Society, Perception, The Inner Life, Consciousness Future, Consciousness and the Future, Healthy Living News
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.

Part of our mythological clash is about how we choose to exercise human consciousness. There are myriad ways in which modern societies limit consciousness and keep humanity distracted from their inner lives.

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'Dallas,' 'The Closer' Spinoff Get Premiere Dates

Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: Tnt, The Closer, Tnt Summer 2012 Schedule, The Great Escape, Perception, TV Spoilers, Eric McCormack, Leverage, Falling Skies, Dallas Tnt, TV Canada, Video, Mary McDonnell, Tnt Schedule, Dallas Reboot, Dallas, Major Crimes, Armchair Detective, TV News

Get ready to head back to Southfork ranch: TNT's "Dallas" reboot has been scheduled for the summer! The continuation of the '80s soap starring Larry H...

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The Man in the Mirror

Robert Levithan | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Ageism, Internalized-Prejudice, Perception, Mindfulness, Vanity, Aging, Aging Gracefully, Thoughts on Aging, Healthy Living News
Robert Levithan

What about developing a truer relationship with the man or woman in the mirror? Yes, look into your eyes, the proverbial windows to the soul. Get curious. Leave judgment behind. Take a breath. Don't listen to the harsh voices that might show up.

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The Phoenix Generation: The Rise of Those Who Will Change the World

Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D. | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Youth, Consciousness, Transformation, Spiritual Awakening, Society, Future, Millennial Generation, Perception, Future Generations, Healthy Living News
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.

The world we live in now is changing rapidly. The normal state of affairs is not the static and stationary that we sometimes view our lives to be, but of flux and flow.

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The Fabric of Our Lives

Denise M. Wilbanks | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Mind-Body Connection, Perception, Consciousness, Conflict Resolution, Funny Girl, Human Interaction, Conscious Relationships, Healthy Living News
Denise M. Wilbanks

Our emotions are the windows through which we perceive the world abroad. Those emotions come to fruition and are delivered to us by way of our experiences with those around us.

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Fleeing the Brain's Fear Center

Wray Herbert | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Neuroscience, Emotion, Brain, Popular Science, Appraisal, Fear, Perception, Motivation, Amygdala, Goals, Brain's Fear Center, Brain Fear Center, Anxiety Amygdala, Science News
Wray Herbert

Over time, insights get simplified for non-scientists, and translated into the plain language of introductory textbooks. So it is with the amygdala, otherwise known as the brain's "fear center."

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The Universe Is Our Brain

Deepak Chopra | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Brain Science, Perception, Consciousness, Brain, Human Brain, Universe, Video, Healthy Living News
Deepak Chopra

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Is That All There Is? It's About Time

Dimitri Hamlin | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Temporality, Consciousness, Perception, Mind, Derrida, Duality, Phenomenology, Ryle, Self, Other, Observing Time, Nature of Time, Philosophy of Time, Time, Time-and-Space, Religion News
Dimitri Hamlin

In its pure form, time is beautifully clear, simple and non-problematic. Space, however, complicates things.

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Physician Heal Thyself

Malcolm Kushner | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Philanthropy, Medical, Education, Doctors, Power, Perception, Communication, Doctor Patient Relationship, Doctor-Patient Relations University of Chicago, Doctor-Patient Relations, Weird News News
Malcolm Kushner

The University of Chicago recently announced a donation of $42 million to create an institute dedicated to the improvement of doctor-patient relations.

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Inside Eric Orr's Zero Mass At MCASD La Jolla

John Seed | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Art Meets Science, Eric Orr Art, Perception, Mcasd, Eric Orr Exhibit, Zero Mass Exhibit, Eric Orr Zero Mass, Zero Mass MCASD, Eric Orr, Home News
John Seed

Zero Mass will provoke your senses, incite your imagination and open you up a bit. And don't worry, if you feel a bit freaked out, the excellent security staff can talk you through it, if you don't mind chatting with Stygian shadows.

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Are You Living Your Life With Blinkers On?

Steven Crandell | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Consciousness, Happiness, Spirit, Inspiration, Positivity, Mindfulness, Perception, Destiny, Fate and Destiny, Healthy Living Spirit, Fate, Healthy Living News
Steven Crandell

In spite of our humanity, we sometimes wear strategic blinkers to pursue our goals. We prize speed and efficiency, but we sacrifice awareness, intuition and flexibility -- we cramp our own style of living.

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I Am: Therefore God Is

Deepak Chopra | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Possibility, Consciousness, Existence, Science, Reality, God, Perception, Comos, Potentiality, Books News
Deepak Chopra

Deepak talks about the role of consciousness and the observer in creation. These and other topics are discussed in his new book co-authored with Leon...

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Understanding Color Perception: Is Your 'Red' The Same As My 'Red?'

Mark Changizi, Ph.D. | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Color Qualia, Perception, Richard Dawkins, Inverted Spectrum, Healthy Living Health News, Perception of Color, Brain Science, Qualia, Color Perception, Healthy Living Mind, Perceiving Colors Differently, Healthy Living News
Mark Changizi, Ph.D.

How do we know that your "red" looks the same as my "red"? For all we know, your "red" looks like my "blue." In fact, for all we know your "red" looks nothing like any of my colors at all.

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The People v. The State of Illusion

Clarissa Burt | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Film, Illusion, People, Reality, Docudramas, . Documentary, Perception, Mind, Culture News
Clarissa Burt

What stresses you out; traffic, co workers, family members, finances, or maybe all of the above? Daily stressors may be unavoidable but they are man...

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What Your Email Style Says About You

Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Friend, Success, Good Impression, Work, Email, Coworker, Crazy Bosses, Perception, Making an Impression, Communication, Technology News
Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.

In the modern workplace, we don't actually talk to each other as much as we used to. Communication now often takes place via email, a change that has brought with it both convenience and its own unique set of challenges.

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Reframing the Deficit Misperception

Max Benavidez | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Taxes, Entitlements, Morale Deficit, Frame, Most Important Meaures, Narrative, Jobs, Perception, Jobs Deficit, Deficit, Economic Recovery, Unemployment, Reframing, American Dream, Gallup, Meme, Max Benavidez, Job Creation, Unfunded Wars, Politics News
Max Benavidez

In the 20th century we saw examples of what happened when nations were stripped of their morale and lost their spirit. They fell into fascism or totalitarianism. We need job creation and morale building not deficit reduction.

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The U.S. Open And The Vagaries Of Spatial Perception

Wray Herbert | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: US Open, Perception, Memory and Cognition, U.S. Open, Emotional State Spatial Perception, Emotional State Perception, Spatial Perception, Perception Biases, Spatial Distortion, Healthy Living News
Wray Herbert

Depending on how they are feeling -- physically, mentally and emotionally -- even elite golfers may perceive the day's round of golf quite differently, right down to the dimensions of the ball and hole.

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Rethinking The Generation Gap: Should Boomers Listen Better?

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Gerascophobia, Boomers, Baby Boomers, Gen Y, Generational Wars, Russell Bishop, Perception, Gen X, Self-Perception, Gen X'ers, Generation X, Generation Y, Gen Y'ers, Aging, Generational Differences, Generation Gap, Healthy Living News
Vivian Diller, Ph.D.

Are we in fact dreaming, or finding ways to discount and distort what this younger set is saying over and over? They are clearly angry, and it might benefit us all if we took some time to just listen more carefully.

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Taking a Look at How We Look At Our World and at Ourselves

Mitchell J. Rabin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Confused Thinking, Politics, Democrat, Language, Chinese Wisdom, Lao-Tse, Republican, Liberal, Psychology, Conservative, Libertarian, Perception, Ideology, Politics News
Mitchell J. Rabin

Looking at how we think, see or perceive as in a reflective exercise is just not something we humans really like to do. We'd rather actively assert t...

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