"As a user sits in front of the Eyegaze monitor, a specialized video camera mounted below the monitor observes one of the user's eyes. Sophisticated image‑ processing software in the Eyegaze System's computer continually analyzes the video image of the eye and determines where the user is looking on the screen. Nothing is attached to the user's head or body."
http://www.gschlosser.de/eyegaze_english.htm
"In 1922, Matthew Luckiesh wrote an optical illusions book titled - Visual Illusions: Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications. It was probably the first book to comprehensively cover the topic of Optical Illusions, or Visual Illusions, as they were called then.
On this optical illusion web site, we present this book to you, chock full of optical illusion information. It will be of interest to both the person who is fascinated by optical illusions and asks, "How do optical illusions work?" and also to the person doing serious research on the science of optical illusions. Some editing of the book has been done."
http://www.visualillusion.net/
In one breakthrough example, Ramachandran, a researcher at the University of California, San Diego, devised a seemingly simple experiment to explore a puzzle that has confounded doctors since at least the 16th century: the sensation that a ghostly limb remains after the amputation of a body part.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101788221
What is a phantom limb? Why is it a problem? How did Ramachandran help to 'cure' this problem?
In a concrete basement at the University of Sydney, I sat in a chair waiting to have my brain altered by an electromagnetic pulse. My forehead was connected, by a series of electrodes, to a machine that looked something like an old-fashioned beauty-salon hair dryer and was sunnily described to me as a ''Danish-made transcranial magnetic stimulator.'' This was not just any old Danish-made transcranial magnetic stimulator, however; this was the Medtronic Mag Pro, and it was being operated by Allan Snyder, one of the world's most remarkable scientists of human cognition.
http://wireheading.com/brainstim/savant.html
Looking for "the answer" to a question? There are plenty of websites out there which will tell you what to think. Serendip instead aims at helping you to think for yourself, and in the process of discovery to formulate new questions and new explorations.
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/
There is quite a lot of good material here - I used a lot in my SP blog
This site has a number of interesting articles.
There is also a section on Technology, Human origins,
http://discovermagazine.com/topics/mind-brain
A new cognitive psychology article nearly every day.
http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/
Also see:
Cognitive Monthly is an in-depth mini e-book that you can download and read on your computer, iPod, iPhone, e-reader, or any device that can handle a PDF. Each month we cover a different cognitive psychology issue.
Although based on posts that have appeared in Cognitive Daily, it goes beyond what's in the blog, synthesizing and incorporating interviews and other insights.
http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/cogmonthly.php
It's not an amphetamine or stimulant, the article explained: it doesn't make you high, or wired. It seems to work by restricting the parts of your brain that make you sluggish or sleepy. No significant negative effects have been discovered. Now students are using it in the run-up to exams as a "smart drug" - a steroid for the mind.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/my-experiment-with-smart_b_156954.html
A revolutionary new device that reads a person's thoughts and turns them into speech could soon change the lives of paralysed patients around the world.
Users will simply have to think of what they want to say and a voice synthesizer will translate the thoughts into speech almost immediately.
(Oct. 25) -- Authorities on Sunday released the name of a woman who turned up in New York this month saying she had no memory of her name or family. Police a day earlier said a CNN viewer in Maryland identified the woman, who was found in Midtown Manhattan on October 9 outside a youth shelter. A photo of Peterson, who had been referred to as Jane Doe, was circulated by police and aired on CNN this week. Authorities didn't release Peterson's name until Sunday.
Do you believe that she really didn't know who she was? Where her other memories intact? based on what we have learned about memory, what type of amnesia might she have had?
http://news.aol.com/article/teen-with-amnesia-kacie-aleece-peterson/733666
