Neural Substrates of Visual Percepts, Imagery, and Hallucinations

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (F49620-01-1-0397); Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research (N00014-95-1-0409); Office of Naval Research (N00014-95-1-0624)

Neural Substrates of Visual Percepts, Imagery, and Hallucinations

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (F49620-01-1-0397); Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research (N00014-95-1-0409); Office of Naval Research (N00014-95-1-0624)

A Gift Of Knowing: The Art Of Dorothea Rockburne

Published for the exhibition A Gift of Knowing: The Art of Dorothea Rockburne at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from March 14 through April 26, 2015, supported by the Elizabeth B. G. Hamlin Fund and the Shapell Family Art Fund. Design by Wilcox Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts Copyright© 2015 Bowdoin Collegehttps://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/art-museum-exhibition-catalogs/1099/thumbnail.jp

Diagrammatic Reasoning and Modelling in the Imagination: The Secret Weapons of the Scientific Revolution

Just before the Scientific Revolution, there was a "Mathematical Revolution", heavily based on geometrical and machine diagrams. The "faculty of imagination" (now called scientific visualization) was developed to allow 3D understanding of planetary motion, human anatomy and the workings of machines. 1543 saw the publication of the heavily geometrical work of Copernicus and Vesalius, as well as the first Italian translation of Euclid

Creativity Skills Applied to Earth Science Education: Examples from K-12 Teachers in a Graduate Creativity Class

NOTE: This is a large file, 10.7 mb in size! This article briefly explores different aspects of creativity, and then examines K-12 teachers' reactions to exercises applied to earth science concepts in a graduate creativity class. Different types of puzzle activities centering on geoscience content include a quiz game based on Odyssey of the Mind spontaneous problems, and other exercises related to embedded words, transformed cliches, remotely associated word sets, and wordsmithing. Teachers used visualization for an imaginary interview with a geoscientist, along with personal analogy of an earth science feature. As a culminating activity, teachers fashioned a geoscience curriculum material with a given set of items. Ideas for applying the activities to geoscience classes at various grade levels are included. Educational levels: Graduate or professional, Graduate or professional

Cohabitation: Computation at 70, Cognition at 20

Zenon Pylyshyn cast cognition's lot with computation, stretching the Church/Turing Thesis to its limit: We had no idea how the mind did anything, whereas we knew computation could do just about everything. Doing it with images would be like doing it with mirrors, and little men in mirrors. So why not do it all with symbols and rules instead? Everything worthy of the name "cognition," anyway; not what was too thick for cognition to penetrate. It might even solve the mind/body problem if the soul, like software, were independent of its physical incarnation. It looked like we had the architecture of cognition virtually licked. Even neural nets could be either simulated or subsumed. But then came Searle, with his sino-spoiler thought experiment, showing that cognition cannot be all computation (though not, as Searle thought, that it cannot be computation at all). So if cognition has to be hybrid sensorimotor/symbolic, it turns out we've all just been haggling over the price, instead of delivering the goods, as Turing had originally proposed 5 decades earlier

Elizabeth Bishop and the Modern Miraculous: Filling Station and Some Sources

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. Where there is great love, says Willa Cather’s Jean Latour in Death Comes for the Archbishop, there are always miracles. . . . The Miracles of the Church . . . rest not so much upon power coming suddenly . . . from far off, but on our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always (50). In this modern view, a miracle bespeaks the sudden perception or recognition of a power immanent in the world rather than one thrust into ordinary affairs—an idea closer to the showing forth of the Greek “epiphany” than the wonder or marvel of the Latin “miraculum.” The modernity of Cather’s definition lies also, I believe, in its emphasis on human perception, directing us more toward the experience of the miraculous rather than the underlying nature of the miracle itself. Accordingly, Cather’s Latour, priest though he is, leaves richly ambiguous whether the “great love” required by the miracle is God’s or our own, and while the divinity of the “power . . . about us always” is clearly implied, it is never explicitly named

Metaphors of Mind in Fiction and Psychology

Curiosity about the human mind—what it is and how it functions—began long before modern psychology. But because the mind and its processes are so elusive, they could be described only by means of metaphor. Michael Kearns, in this prize-winning study, examines the development of metaphors of the mind in psychological writings from Hobbes through William James and in fiction from Defoe through Henry James. Throughout the eighteenth century and even into the early nineteenth, metaphors of the mind as a relatively simple entity, either mechanical or biological, dominated both those engaged in psychological theorizing and novelists ranging from Richardson and Smollett through Dickens and the Brontes. In the nineteenth century, such psychologists as Herbert Spencer and Alexander Bain conceived of the mind as a complex organism quite different from that embodied in earlier thinking, but their figurative language did not keep pace. The result was a tension between theoretical expression and actual discussion of mental phenomena. Michael S. Kearns is assistant professor of English at Ohio Wesleyan University. Winner of the first annual Midwest Modern Language Association Book Awardhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_british_isles/1038/thumbnail.jp