Here, a study about a disgusting odor, with a distinct touch: “Reduced Pleasant Touch Appraisal in the Presence of a Disgusting Odor,” Ilona Croy [pictured here], Silvia D’Angelo, Håkan Olausson, PLoS One, epub March 24, 2014. (Thanks to investigator Carmen Nobel for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, […]
Tag: Perception
Wavelengths you don’t see, wavelengths you don’t hear…
Abstruse Goose peruses the limits of direct perception: (HT Vince Abbott)
A study of domestic cat meows, to be presented in Dublin
The world’s ongoing research effort to understand cat meows will center, for a shining moment in May, in Dublin, Ireland.The assembled delegates will there “A Study of Human Perception of Intonation in Domestic Cat Meows,” Susanne Schötz [pictured here, above] and Joost van de Weijer [pictured here, below], [paper to be presented at the conference] Proceedings […]
A Rorschach Test
Look at this picture. What do you see? Some may see a portrait of Herman Rorschach, the inventor of the Rorschach Test. Others may see a pair of vases. Still others may see a circuit diagram for the Pentium II processor. A minority of people report seeing a collection of black dots on a white […]