Ben Brocka

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I'm a moderator on User Experience Stack Exchange.

Programmer/Systems Analyst working mostly in PHP/HTML/CSS. Enthusiast follower of User Experience topics and solutions.

I have Bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Human Computer Interaction and I continue to be fascinated by the brain and cognition and it's relevance in design.

	5,003 reputation	bio	website	twitter.com/#!/BenBrocka	visits	member for	1 year, 4 months
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Jan 24	comment	What term describes people that cannot feel pain? I found that immediately after posting actually. Children with this condition often suffer oral cavity damage both in and around the oral cavity (such as having bitten off the tip of their tongue) Mother of god.
Jan 24	revised	What transient factors affect performance on IQ tests? edited title
Jan 24	revised	Does caffeine improve performance for habituated consumers? edited title
Jan 24	asked	What term describes people that cannot feel pain?
Jan 24	comment	What research gives insight into the terms “low status” and “high status”? Do you mean "status" as a sociological term?
Jan 24	revised	What is a neurobiological explanation of borderline personality disorder? edited tags
Jan 24	revised	What is the definition of sanity? How can I prove someone either sane or insane? edited tags
Jan 24	answered	What is the definition of sanity? How can I prove someone either sane or insane?
Jan 24	awarded	Convention
Jan 23	revised	What is a neurobiological explanation of borderline personality disorder? added 18 characters in body
Jan 23	revised	Do children show top-down processing as much as adults do? added 1 characters in body
Jan 23	revised	Does writing something down help memorize it? added 2 characters in body; edited tags
Jan 23	revised	How does posture affect cerebral blood flow? deleted 9 characters in body
Jan 23	comment	How does posture affect cerebral blood flow? I also found this article Effects of gravity on the circulation but have nowhere to use it.
Jan 23	answered	How does posture affect cerebral blood flow?
Jan 23	revised	Are there any connectionist models that integrate reinforcement and fully supervised learning? added 1 characters in body
Jan 23	comment	Is Behaviorism incompatible with Cognitive Psychology? An interesting (if absurd sounding) presentation of a behaviorist psychology professor of mine suggested the idea of "Behavior as a natural science". Behavior initially had all the appeal of "rigor" which cognitive models and pontification couldn't' solve, but I think we've moved past that.
Jan 23	comment	Is procrastination greater when skill is low and rewards offer low status boost and does this lead to efficient task allocation in groups? By the way I changed the original wording of this question from "Theory" to "Hypothesis". Theory should only be used to denote an established and or well tested concept in the field. The "common" definition of Theory is too watered down for a research oriented site.
Jan 23	comment	Is procrastination greater when skill is low and rewards offer low status boost and does this lead to efficient task allocation in groups? I think personal hypothesis testing could possibly be an interesting tag, we would have to watch to ensure it didn't result in an excess of low quality "Okay, so this is what I think the brain does..." questions.
Jan 23	revised	Is procrastination greater when skill is low and rewards offer low status boost and does this lead to efficient task allocation in groups? added 8 characters in body; edited title