Category Archives: Journal club

Predicting movie taste

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Lascap

There is a fundamental tension between how movie critics conceive of their role and how their reviews are utilized by the moviegoing public. Movie critics by and large see their job as educating the public as to what is a good movie and explaining … Continue reading →

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Revisiting the dress: Lessons for the study of qualia and science

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Lascap

When #thedress first came out in February 2015, vision scientists had plenty of ideas why some people might be seeing it differently than others, but no one knew for sure. Now we have some evidence as to what might be going on. … Continue reading →

Posted in Journal club, Neuroscience, Psychology, Science | 5 Comments

Low contrasts shed light on the neural code for speed

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Lascap

The effects of stimulus contrast on visual perception have been known for a long time.  For example, there is a consensus that at lower contrasts objects appear to be moving slower than they actually are (Thompson, 1982). Several computational models … Continue reading →

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SfN by the numbers

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Lascap

The 40th annual Society for Neuroscience meeting is about to begin. This fact merits some reflection. 40 large meetings – held consecutively year after year – suggest a wildly successful, long and unbroken chain of vigorous scientific exchange. As such, it is … Continue reading →

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Is reality retrocausal?

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Lascap

Science is concerned with systematically probing the fundamental nature of reality, determining what is and what is not the case. In other words, science is about figuring out what is going on and about understanding how the world works (with … Continue reading →

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