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(a.k.a. jonsca here)
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington is one of my science heros, so I'm featuring him on my cogsci profile. He is often credited with coining the word "synapse."
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Mar 20 |
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Does the fusiform face area in patients with Prosopagnosia (face blindness) show lower activity under an fMRI? edited tags |
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Mar 13 |
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Under what conditions does 60hz video produce visual artifacts? I realized I should have specified that all of that is taking place in the video medium long before it reaches the eye. It's an interesting question, but I don't have a definitive answer to it, though. |
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Mar 13 |
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Under what conditions does 60hz video produce visual artifacts? Anything in the frame that's moving at over twice 60 Hz is not going to be sampled properly. Since the energy of the signal is constant, those higher harmonics end up distorting the amplitudes of the lower frequencies. The faster you sample, the higher the 2*f Nyquist limit. |
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Mar 13 |
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Under what conditions does 60hz video produce visual artifacts? I think this may be an issue of aliasing rather than a quirk of human visual perception. |
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Mar 8 |
awarded | Talkative |
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Mar 8 |
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What do anatomical substrates of conditioned taste aversion tell us about treatment? edited tags |
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Mar 7 |
awarded | Civic Duty |
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Mar 7 |
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What do anatomical substrates of conditioned taste aversion tell us about treatment? @Dima As a stopgap, sure, but understanding these mechanisms is a bridge into other areas of "learned" behavior. |
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Mar 7 |
asked | What do anatomical substrates of conditioned taste aversion tell us about treatment? |
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Mar 3 |
accepted | What is a more modern interpretation of the terms egosyntonic/egodystonic? |
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Mar 2 |
accepted | What are the purported mechanisms of eidetic memory and why is it comorbid with autism? |
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Mar 2 |
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What is a more modern interpretation of the terms egosyntonic/egodystonic? edited title |
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Mar 2 |
asked | What is a more modern interpretation of the terms egosyntonic/egodystonic? |
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Mar 1 |
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What are the purported mechanisms of eidetic memory and why is it comorbid with autism? @PiotrMigdal I suppose comorbid may be a bit strong, but the association is definitely there. The article you point to is more indicative of highly functioning people with autism, which I would think would have the least overlap with the savant population. |
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Mar 1 |
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What are the purported mechanisms of eidetic memory and why is it comorbid with autism? @PiotrMigdal True, it is not a condition of autism, but there is a strong comorbity there in both directions (the article I cited said that 1 in 10 people with autism are savants, and 50% of all savants are autistic). |
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Mar 1 |
asked | What are the purported mechanisms of eidetic memory and why is it comorbid with autism? |
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Feb 29 |
asked | What neural structures motivate humans to decide to “throw it all away”? |
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Feb 28 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Feb 28 |
accepted | What can cognitive psychology tell us about the results of the Stanford Prison Experiment? |
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Feb 28 |
asked | Is multiple personality disorder a medical condition or artifact of psychotherapy? |
