Word: stimuli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gilbert's most recent research is in "affective forecasting," or how well people can predict their emotional reactions to future stimuli...
...patient, a 38-year-old man whose V1 for one eye was wiped out in an automobile accident, is also quite clearly aware of motion seen by the "blind" eye even when the good eye is covered. "We find," says Zeki, "that he is consciously aware of moving stimuli and of their direction. He will tell you that the bars on a TV screen are moving left or right, toward or away, and he gets it 100% correct every time." Furthermore, notes Zeki, PET scans show that the patient's perception of motion is accompanied by the appropriate activation...
...though his idea is subtly different from Crick and Koch's. Llinas believes that the firing of neurons is not just simultaneous but also coordinated. Using a highly sensitive device called a magnetoencephalograph, which indirectly measures the electric currents within the brain, Llinas measured the electrical response to external stimuli (he used musical tones). What he observed was a series of perfectly timed oscillations. Says Llinas: "The electrical signal says that a whole lot of cells must be jumping up and down at the same time...
Lastly, though, coeducation is ultimately an attempt at androgenization. Throughout their college lives, Harvard men and women are bombarded with the same set of stimuli, the same corpus of knowledge, the same objective approach to facts--a process which promotes the notion that men and women are essentially the same. Yet, ignoring both the critical differences in men and women's interactive capacities and their divergent sex roles can have damaging effects on the coeducated student's life...
...Well, that's positive road taxis," replied Wilson, tying it into his lecture on stimuli and response...