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...taken pictures of diverse locations ranging from Cambridge, Mass. to New Zealand. Once in graduate school, Professor Pinker noted the links between his psychological research and the art of photography. He says, “One reason that it meshes with my interests in psychology, in particular, [is] visual perception??how do we see a 3-D scene from a 2-D image?—and evolutionary aesthetics-—what are the properties of scenes, faces, and objects that most appeal to people?” Professor Pinker’s photographs have graced...
Lectures on Saturday included Stanford professor Bryan Wolf’s discussion of “Figure/Ground, Lost/Found, Seeing/Wound: Eakins, Painting, Perception?? and L.A. artist Harry Gamboa’s “Walking Murals: Asco’s Performative Surfaces in the Seventies...
Describing the work as “the first book of its kind,” McMillian said he wanted to offer a “more charitable perception?? of American radicalism...
While human-machine interactions formed the basis of PEAR’s studies, the PEAR lab also pursues research in other less-explored scientific fields. Another branch of PEAR’s studies, for instance, focuses on the human capacity for remote perception??what a layman might call extra sensory perception...
These problems are not intrinsic to metaphors themselves. Metaphors can, and do, help us understand the tragic events around us. But they should be designed to enhance our perception??to jog us out of our complacent and simplistic emotional response. They should not encourage us to sit idly intellectually, grinding the world’s problems into a mush we won’t have to chew before swallowing...