Word: visualize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...potential) when they are stimulated. The nerve impulses that set off these brain waves all seem to be of the same kind, regardless of where the stimulation comes from. What distinguishes the sense signals from one another is the place in the brain where they are received: a visual image, for example, is recorded in one area of the brain, a hearing image in another...
When he showed a subject a flickering light, his brain-broadcasting instrument recorded flickering electrical impulses of the same frequency. This experiment revealed "an interesting borderland" between the visual area and the rest of the brain - the image spread out over a wider area, into parts of the brain not primarily concerned with sight. Dr. Adrian suggests that this spreading activity in the brain represents the reaction of the brain cells to the image, i.e., an approach to thinking. But his recordings of this complex process are so confusing and difficult to interpret that "the present technique of recording brain...
...editors take no sides between Progressive educators (TIME, July 5) and their Essentialist opponents (TIME, Sept. 13), print articles by leaders of both camps. Sample topics: educational goals and incentives, the project method, temper tantrums, audio-visual aids, the elective system, the Chicago Plan, aeronautical education...
Fanny Brice, radio's famed brattish Baby Snooks, is also an ardent collector of artistic "Snooksology"−drawings and paintings by children. Like paintings by the insane, paintings by children, she believes, are often inspired by a freshness of visual impact and a perception of significant detail which other artists lose by remaining sane and growing up. Last week young & old Baltimoreans could see what Miss Brice means, at an exhibit of 41 drawings and paintings selected from more than 100 "masterpieces" by children, which for 20-odd years she has been assembling in Europe...
...clinic took them in, gave them intelligence tests, scholastic achievements tests, visual examinations, eye movement photographs, audio-metric tests and recorded their oral readings upon entering to compare them with the ones that would be made when-they were improved...