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...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...
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...
...this week will certainly be a "revery of long days and nights." From placement tests to shopping for futons, the next seven or so days of your life will spill over with activities and general stimuli. It will be one of the few times when groups of Harvard students simply sit around talking because of arbitrary rooming assignments made by the HDO. Watch the improbable friendships form in the vacuum of a larger social structure. And then watch some of them dissolve when the participants and classmates more suitable to their coeds...
...fact that all humans have similar amounts of neuromelanin. According to the melanists, neuromelanin can convert light and magnetic fields to sound and back again, and can capture sunlight and hold it in a "memory mode." Furthermore, they say, melanin granules are minicomputers that can respond to and analyze stimuli without interacting with the brain...