Chris Yun - Mind Trick Video

This video shows multiple still images. However, if looked at closely, they appear to be moving. This sensation, motion perception, works similarly to depth perception. Motion perception is the inferring of speed and direction based on visual inputs. Like Mr. Douds explained in class, the brain takes a bunch of still images and converts them into a single flowing process. Watch the video and see if you experience motion perception!

Gene Kang: Opponent Process Theory

Note: This works best if watched in full-screen.



This video shows a "color illusion", similar to the the U.S. flag and the Jesus one we saw in class. The only difference is that this illusion has a much wider range of colors, and thus is more visually impressive.
Color illusions such as this usually provide a picture with opposite colors(for example, a picture of an originally red ball would be green). There is a small dot in the middle, and the viewer must stare at that dot for a given period of time, usually 15-30 seconds. Then, after the time is up, either a blank page or, in this case, a color-less photo is shown. Remarkably, the viewer somehow sees a fully colored and very visible picture of whatever they were staring at, whether it be a flag or a beach.
This phenomenon occurs because of the Opponent Process Theory, or the theory of color vision stating that color-sensitive visual elements are grouped into red-green, blue-yellow, and black-white elements. In other words, if one part of a colored pair is no longer stimulated, then the other part is activated. Thus, we see a blue beach and green trees, because the picture we were staring at before had a roughly yellow beach and slightly reddish trees. These colors were probably not completely yellow or red due to the fact that the human eye can perceive over millions of different colors, meaning that the shading would have to be precise and not simply a solid primary color.

SeokMin Yang- CIA Mind Control

This video is about series of programs conducted by CIA during World War II to use mind control as a weapon. This is quite interesting because it deals with destroying people's thinking patterns using drugs, sounds, and visions.

Tara Senfi

This cute video shows with great detail how light enters the eye in an easy and fun way. It shows in three steps how the light enters the eye, labeling all the diff. parts of the eye. Hope it helps!

Carnea Shin: Top-Down Processing

This is the F.U.N. song from SpongeBob Squarepants...
Top-Down Proccessing is information processing that focuses on expectations and experiences in interpreting incoming sensory information.
So if you didn't see the subtitles for the song played backwards you wouldn't be able to tell what they were saying.
I hope you enjoy it..

Michael Glazer- Color Blindness

Color blindness is not being able to see certain colors the way normal people would see them. Having been color blind my entire life, i understand when other people are color blind too. It doesnt necessarily mean that you cant see any colors (which is called Achromatopsia), it just means that you have a problem with the pigments in your cones. About 1 in 10 men have color blindness, so its not that uncommon.In this picture if you are able to see a boat, then congrats, your not color blind. I myself have never seen this brown boat.

Erin Kavanagh- CIPA

This video is about a four year old boy named Roberto who has a very rare disease known as Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anihidrosis or CIPA. The disease makes it so that Roberto physically cannot feel the pain that normal people experience from a fall from a bike or a cut on the arm. While this may sound like a good thing to people who do not have the disease, it is so dangerous that most people that have CIPA do not live into adulthood. Since children can usually tell their parents or an adult what is hurting them when they are sick and injured, their parents can seek appropriate help. However, children with CIPA could have any number of internal or external problems that are hidden from their parents that for a normal child would be easily treatable, but for a CIPA child could be life threatening. I thought that this video was really interesting and gave me a whole new perspective on the sensation of touch and pain.

Synesthesia - Jimmy Corish

This video is about a man, Sean Day, with synesthesia. Sean describes his sensations when he eats certain foods or hears certain sounds. A scientist, Dr. Eagleman, performs an experiment with Sean to see what he experiences when he hears these sounds. Dr. Eagleman also explains the reasoning behind how synesthesia occurs and research that is being conducted on the condition of synesthesia.

Religion and the Brain

Out-of-body experiences, such as meditation, can now be linked to specific parts of the brain, according to a Gale database article titled "Neurotheology."

Scientist Michael Persinger hypothesized that electrical impulses in the temporal lobe caused by epilepsies would produce mystical experiences. To test this theory, he placed helmets on participants that let off a slight electrical charge. Participants described having supernatural and divine experiences.

Persinger suggests that these religious experiences are triggered by anxiety, personal crisis, lack of oxygen, low blood sugar and fatigue.

Why the left temporal lobe? This area of the brain is thought to “maintain our sense of self”

The power of rituals: Many cultures participate in religious ceremonies characterized by drumming, dancing, incantations, etc…

Intense sensory stimulation + powerful emotions = sends brain into “hyperdrive”

What happens in hyperdrive? The hippocampus stops the flow of signals between neurons (much like during the sensation of fear). Certain regions of the brain no longer receive input from neurons. One of these areas is the orientation area. The brain no longer receives sensory input. The body can no longer detect “where the self leaves off and the world begins”.

All very interesting. Of course, as the author says, it is up for you to decide whether our brains are responsible for the idea of some higher power, or whether some higher power is responsible for the wiring of our brains.

Kathryn Hahne

This is a preview for a TV show called Lie to Me about Dr. Cal Lightman, the world's leading deception expert. If you lie to Lightman, he can see it in your face and your posture or hear it in your voice. If you shrug your shoulder, rotate your hand or raise your lower lip, Lightman will spot the lie. By analyzing facial expressions and involuntary body language, he can read feelings ranging from hidden resentment to sexual attraction to jealousy. However, his scientific ability is a blessing and a curse in his personal life, where his family and friends deceive each other as readily as criminals and strangers do.

I not only love watching this show but I loved this preview when I saw it on TV awhile ago. It demonstrates the fact that even though humans are a very diverse species we all have underlying behaviors and traits that are similar.

Ellen Huff

http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/10/why-we-dont-help-others-bystander.php

I tried to make the link clickable but it didnt work so copy and paste it people, sorry :(

This is a cool article about how people are less likely to help others when there are more people present. Its called- Why We Don't Help Others: Bystander Apathy.

Halo Brain

This would have been really helpfull for the test.

Ben Kim

Have you ever heard of supermarket psychology? Probably not.
Check it out. You will learn about how marketers trick customers
into buying stuff that are against their interest by the
use of color.

Alex Kim: Stampede!!

This video is about a prank that was conducted by a Japanese t.v. show. It's a really funny video that had me constantly laughing. Basically, it displays how people's behavior can be influenced by other groups depending on the situation.
Hope you enjoy.

This is Tony Robbins, a self-help professional speaker. This is, I believe, closely related to psychology because of the subjects he talks about. Self-improvement, conditioning, and development, are all closely related to Humanistic Psychology. In further detail, Tony Robbins discusses the importance of our way of thinking and how it affects our improvement. He talks about what shapes us, our emotions, background, and how it can all be ultimately improved based on the individual’s approach.

The Uninvited- Justin Nicholls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-ptYjksxU

this movie is very confussing. It is about a girl who goes to a mental hospital because of her phsycological problems due to the fact that her mom and sister died in a house fire. she is always seeing strange things and throughout the movie she imagines that her sister is still alive and she is talking to her through the entire movie but really she is talking to nobody but herself. viewers can see that she is talking to her sister but really her sister is dead. numerous times she tries to commit suicide but something always occur. this movie is veryyyyy confusing and i didn't understand it after i watched it because someone had to tell me what was going on.

Syd Zwick

So the first thing that pops into my mind when i think of Fun Science is Bill Nye. So of course i searched Youtube for videos on the brain... he has a WHOLE EPISODE ON IT!!!!! EXCITING!!!! and a great study guide... big test on tuesday YEAH!... so here are the links if you want to watch it its three different videos... but the third section is the best... it has cool mind games to play wowahahawa!!!






then Bill as the cool guy he is likes to add some sweet 90's music to add to the hip coolness that is the BRAIN!!!!!!