That's why you should never buy a Dell. I got a Dell laptop for my birthday and it was the slowest piece of junk ever until the left hand side of the screen decided to suddenly stop working right on schedule after the warranty ran out. Built in obsolescence at its finest. I then got an HP and I've never looked back (sorry, but I like my PCs).
Could it also have anything to do with becoming more androgynous as we age? Men start to look a little softer around the edges and women look a little less feminine as hormones change.
Why not set up intervention programs such as organising a cheap clock with an alarm system that they keep in a place of prominence, or confirming that a family member will remind them when they are supposed to take their meds?
If they can remember in the event of receiving a monetary reward, they can remember without it. If that's all it takes to help them "remember" then perhaps it's not a memory problem, but more of a motivational one.
"The short answer is that our brains are programmed to see the world in three dimensions instead of two. "
Not necessarily. Different illusions operate on different perceptual principles. Some work on a lack of depth perception information, in which case that statement would be correct.
But others like the one above take advantage of our colour constancy - that we can percieve a colour to be the same under different levels and types of illumination.
More often that not, an optical illusion is our brain's way of trying to make sense of visually confusing stimuli.
Unlike what this article claims, psychologists specialising in perception (usually the ones who investigate these sorts of phenomena) do not ignore the larger picture, and do indeed talk about optical illusions not only on a neural level, but on an evolutionary level too.
And I'm not sure what kind of position "a brain research" is supposed to be.
And can't humans only detect frequencies as low as 20Hz? If it were a fundamental frequency, my guess is at frequencies that low we wouldn't even be able to hear it, however if like angstrom said, it were merely an impulse at such intervals, we might still be able to detect it, as we could in the video.
@ bud "This debunks your theory alltogether. In the images you can see that there are A LOT of beautiful (and surely smart too) women in real life. So the cartoon is a mere depiction thereof."
Sometimes it is hard to tell on the net, but I think I can safely assume you're joking.
Yes, clearly those women provide a representative sample of the female population at large.
Sure censorship doesn't solve the problem, but neither does actively promoting this sort of image.
@Idil
I think it's fairly rational to feel the way you do in your situation. It sounds to me like your boyfriend rather than you may need some psychological counseling. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a highly successful means of changing one's thought processes, or in your boyfriend's case, perhaps his expectations of the reality of what women really look like.
I don't want to pretend that I know enough about your situation to offer you advice, so think of it more as me making a suggestion, and you can heed it or ignore it.
P.S. I still think Neatorama could use some female characters, maybe just tone it down a little.
I got a Dell laptop for my birthday and it was the slowest piece of junk ever until the left hand side of the screen decided to suddenly stop working right on schedule after the warranty ran out. Built in obsolescence at its finest.
I then got an HP and I've never looked back (sorry, but I like my PCs).
If they can remember in the event of receiving a monetary reward, they can remember without it. If that's all it takes to help them "remember" then perhaps it's not a memory problem, but more of a motivational one.
Not necessarily. Different illusions operate on different perceptual principles. Some work on a lack of depth perception information, in which case that statement would be correct.
But others like the one above take advantage of our colour constancy - that we can percieve a colour to be the same under different levels and types of illumination.
Others work on how our visual cells are excited or inhibited by certain visual information such as the Hermann Grid illusion:
http://www.vashtie.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/black-dots-optical-illusion.gif
...or the leaning tower illusion:
http://neurophilosophy.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/kingdom.jpg
More often that not, an optical illusion is our brain's way of trying to make sense of visually confusing stimuli.
Unlike what this article claims, psychologists specialising in perception (usually the ones who investigate these sorts of phenomena) do not ignore the larger picture, and do indeed talk about optical illusions not only on a neural level, but on an evolutionary level too.
And I'm not sure what kind of position "a brain research" is supposed to be.
And can't humans only detect frequencies as low as 20Hz? If it were a fundamental frequency, my guess is at frequencies that low we wouldn't even be able to hear it, however if like angstrom said, it were merely an impulse at such intervals, we might still be able to detect it, as we could in the video.
"This debunks your theory alltogether. In the images you can see that there are A LOT of beautiful (and surely smart too) women in real life. So the cartoon is a mere depiction thereof."
Sometimes it is hard to tell on the net, but I think I can safely assume you're joking.
Yes, clearly those women provide a representative sample of the female population at large.
Sure censorship doesn't solve the problem, but neither does actively promoting this sort of image.
@Idil
I think it's fairly rational to feel the way you do in your situation. It sounds to me like your boyfriend rather than you may need some psychological counseling. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a highly successful means of changing one's thought processes, or in your boyfriend's case, perhaps his expectations of the reality of what women really look like.
I don't want to pretend that I know enough about your situation to offer you advice, so think of it more as me making a suggestion, and you can heed it or ignore it.
P.S. I still think Neatorama could use some female characters, maybe just tone it down a little.
http://thechive.com/2010/06/05/best-photos-of-the-week-45-photos-7/