Sentences with phrase «how human perception»

That's how human perception works.

I was at a dinner a couple weeks back at which several journalists spoke on just this issue, and Shankar Vedantam and Chris Mooney made a good case for what I have also suggested (including in my reply to you on April 6); What's really irrational is for smart people, in support of the myth of perfect rationality and frustrated by the public's «ignorance» about risk, to ignore the mountains of evidence from neuroscience and social sciences about how human perception and decision - making actually works, about risk or anything else.

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The value of Schilt's work is in its use of the experiences of extraordinary people as a lens to reveal how the value of human capital — an individual's education, experience and abilities — is tied to gender perceptions.

It would be otiose to give examples: a distant thunder is in the past as much as a distant star; but no matter how far in time - space a star or galaxy is, it is always faintly immanent in my Here - Now even when its action is below the threshold of human perception; its action can be made visible by a combination of lenses or a prolonged photographic exposure.

In a stroke, then, Russell is able to dispense with Meinong's ontological conundrum and the ontological argument, while providing as adequate an account as anyone has ever been able to offer of how normal human perception and sense data relate to the «objects» of physics.

All we can manage is to develop principles and «how - to's» which causes us to rely on logic and human perception, when Prov.

But, with a rock, all that we seem to have are our human perceptions of it, these perceptions being how the rock influences our psychophysical being under certain conditions.

Modern scientific research shows that salting the eggplant is not actually removing most of the bitter compounds, but the added salt at least decreases the human tongue's perception of bitterness, very much like how adding a little bit of salt to bad coffee improves the taste.

- Cognitive Neuroscience The Cognitive Neuroscience emphasis seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through evolutionary time.

In their experiments, Prof. Markus Ploner, Heisenberg Professor for Human Pain Research at the TUM School of Medicine, and his team investigated pain perception: How does the duration of pain or the action of a placebo affect activities in the brain?

According to Manning, this research not only alters the perception of climatic changes on various scales, from short - term shocks to slower - moving, long - term changes, but it is also revolutionizing the understanding of human societies and how the forces of nature shaped them in the past.

In lyrical prose, Fox ruminates on how these perceptions might influence our attitude toward the planet once human travel is possible.

The researchers, who presented their findings at the Human - Robot Interaction conference today (March 9), suggest that robot anxiety may influence older adults» perception of how easy it is to operate robots and their intentions of buying a robot.

Structural studies give insight into how a human sodium channel involved in pain perception can be selectively inhibited.

Research has shown the significance of social relationships in influencing adult human behavior and health; however, little is known about how children's perception of their social networks correlates with stress and how it may influence development.

However, GCMs do not directly project how the changes of other climatic factors, such as humidity and wind, affect human perception.

How do you go about exploring monkey awareness of human perception?

The Newcastle University team will now continue the research examining the algorithms used for depth perception in insects to better understand how human vision evolved and to develop new ways of adding 3D technology to computers and robots.

But to the sports and exercise scientists, the Olympic Games are bound to represent one of the most wonderful examples of how science may be used to push further the limits of the human body and the human mind — enhancing physical abilities, stretching our perception of the possible, and bringing faith into dreams.

Root - Gutteridge is currently at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom where her next bioacoustics project, «How Dogs Hear Us: Human speech perception by domestic dogs,» explores what animals of the canine persuasion hear when humans speak.

The Working Group has focused its efforts at several levels of modeling to account for human risk perception and how this might be incorporated in climate models.

Program seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through time.

Following a line of researchers attempting to unlock the mysteries of human perception and cognition, Halassa has shown how the brain attends to cues in the outside world and sustains prolonged thought, findings that earned him wide acclaim early in his career.

This discovery helps explain how humans can recover their perception of speech with electronic cochlear implants, which generate signals much simpler than normal auditory inputs.

A complimentary line of research explores how vasopressin modulates social perceptions in humans, and through a collaboration with a colleague at Emory University, where within our own brains it produces such influences.

Trimmer, a geneticist, studies how differences in olfactory receptor genes affect human smell perception.

Dr Chan also feels duty - bound to correct would - be patients» perceptions of how their bodies measure up to the ideal innately recognised by humans as the standard of feminine beauty.

«Global competence is the capacity to analyse global and intercultural issues critically and from multiple perspectives, to understand how differences affect perceptions, judgments, and ideas of self and others, and to engage in open, appropriate and effective interactions with others from different backgrounds on the basis of a shared respect for human dignity.»

The project is meant to both «expose the antifemale bias of the art world» and «uncover the complex workings of human perception and how unconscious ideas about gender, race and celebrity influence a viewer's understanding of a given work of art.»

Since the early 1990s, Los Angeles — based artist Uta Barth has examined photographic and visual perception — how the human eye sees differently from the camera lens and how the incidental and atmospheric can become subject matter in and of themselves.

Her works concern the relationship between technology and human perception and how we communicate the scale of this through language.

In its veristic details, «Slipped Wink» toys with our immediate perception, but also bolsters Pigott's continued exploration of how human ego is translated into the inanimate object, such as a chair.

She is interested in human perception, the way we look at other people, how we see ourselves, and how we define our identities.

One of the first exhibitions of its kind in the UK, Seurat to Riley: The Art of Perception explores how artists have exploited the ways in which the human eye and mind perceive what we see.

Uta Barth,... and to draw a bright white line with light (Untitled 11.3), 2011 May 14 — August 14, 2011 Since the early 1990s, Los Angeles — based artist Uta Barth has examined photographic and visual perception — how the human eye sees differently from the camera lens and how the incidental and atmospheric can become subject matter in and of themselves.

Seurat to Riley: The Art of Perception explores how artists have exploited the ways in which the human eye and mind perceive what we see.

Metzinger argues that our daily perception of the world seems effortless, as a result of how the human brain produces a form of interface, a virtual reality to allow the experience of tactile objects, colors and duration.

His work focuses on wild animals and how they exist in human perception.

This exhibition pairs two immersive installations by Parreno that explore how objects and environmental factors left to chance actively shape human behavior and the perception of the passage of time.

Sensing Spaces considers architecture from the angle of the human encounter: how vision, touch, sound and memory play a role in our perceptions of space, proportion, materials and light.

Pioneering research on this subject by Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff, and others, vast research on human cognition by Daniel Kahneman and colleagues, and research on the brain's fear response by neuroscientists Joseph LeDoux, Elizabeth Phelps, and others, all make abundantly clear that the perception of risk is not simply a matter of the facts, but more a matter of how those facts feel.

Her take on how humans have been thinking, are learning to think (and act)-- and how we could grow our «greener perceptions» — makes for a most thought - provoking podcast conversation.

Normally when I talk about the «Consensus Gap», the discrepancy between the 97 % consensus and the public perception of consensus, I use a histogram of the public response to the question «how many climate scientists agree that humans are causing global warming?»

The Consensus Gap is the difference between the public's perception of how much agreement there is among scientists that humans are causing global warming (red distribution), compared to the actual 97 % consensus among scientists publishing in the peer - reviewed literature (green line).

This Perspective describes how integrating human behaviour and risk perception into flood - risk assessment models may improve identification of effective risk - management strategies.

Dr. Levin and other members of the Ryerson University Privacy and Cyber Crime Institute at the Ted Rogers School of Management have recently published a leading study on the perceptions of risk of young Canadians engaged in online socializing and how their behaviors meet with the use of online social networks by business for commercial and human resources purposes.