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Perception of Time

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As the head of a lab at Baylor, Eagleman has spent the past decade tracing the neural and psychological circuitry of the brain's biological clocks. He has had the good fortune to arrive in his field at the same time as fMRI scanners, which allow neuroscientists to observe the brain at work, in the act of thinking. But his best results have often come through more inventive means: video games, optical illusions, physical challenges. Eagleman has a talent for testing the untestable, for taking seemingly sophomoric notions and using them to nail down the slippery stuff of consciousness. "There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science," he told me. "But we live these short life spans. Why not do the thing that's the coolest thing in the world to do?"

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/25/110425fa_fact_bilger#ixzz1L0k2EwSX
(Thanks to Osman for sending)

Slow Motion Dancing for Japan

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What does this video tell us about the perception of time?

What does this video tell us about Gestalt?

Stop Motion Animation Tips : BFX : Extras

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This relates to my previous post. A little more on the topic of the stop motion animation techniques. This is useful if you want to give stop motion a try. What would you need to know about the perception of biological motion?

 

Here is a clip on how to set up an animation studio:. If you were to set up a studio, what considerations would you make knowing what you know about sensation and perception?

Stop-Motion Miniature Set

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I found a site where this guy builds miniature sets. But they only showed the sets with nothing to compare them to so there was no way to scale them and you couldn't fully appreciate the work. So I found a youtube with some guy making sets out of cardboard. They are miniature, but not realistic. There are a bit too many ads as well. If you find a better video let me know and I'll replace this one.

Watch the video and discuss what is going on and how it relates to what we are studying. If you want, go ahead and build a miniature set of your own.

 

Donder's Complication Study - Demonstration

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The Dutch physiologist, Franciscus Cornelis Donders, was the first person to conceive of a way to measure "thinking time", and did so in studies performed in the middle part of the 1860's.

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/reaction/index.html

 

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