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I am a single male. The title of this blog may make me sound like a scorned, insecure whiner who is repeatedly rejected by single woman, and now I am exacting textual revenge. And because my height is 5’10”, that may even give more ammunition that I am just a biased crumudgeon. However, aside from…
Introduction “Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature…
The brain is a powerful organ that handles a vast array of cognitive functions. From having its own memory storage system, to processing information from sensory organs, to handling visual, spatial, and verbal imagery – the brain is the primary director of cognition. This article focuses on visual, spatial, and verbal imagery: what each term…
There are at least a couple of different approaches to this topic, as it is a bit subjective. Any general, sweeping claim can be a problem, as it means the person making the claim has the burden to prove it empirically. Or, in this case, it can be situational. For example, when it comes to…
Perception is tightly integrated with our personality type and behaviors, our neurochemical makeup, and the overall nature versus nurture dichotomy. And then there is the cognitive angle. Namely, the senses are not only the input systems for the brain to process the plethora of visual, auditory, tactile, and olfactory information that we receive daily, but…
