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Post by Lone Wanderer on Jan 5, 2018 11:23:46 GMT
Source: Pong paddles and perception: Our actions influence what we seeA new study faces head-on the notion that previous experimental subjects have been victims of response bias Summary: Most people think of vision as simply a function of information the eye gathers. For cognitive psychologists vision is a little more complicated than that. One researcher now faces head-on the notion that her experimental subjects have been victims of a psychological phenomenon called response bias. She employed a classic, action-specific experiment involving a video game familiar to children of the 80s: Pong. For nearly a decade, the associate professor of psychology has published numerous studies showing that vision can change as a function of action -- that vision is action-specific, as opposed to general purpose. Among Witt's best-known experiments: When baseball players are hitting better, they see the ball as bigger. When someone lacks fitness or is carrying a heavy backpack, they see a hill as steeper.
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Post by Elizabeth on Jan 5, 2018 11:29:18 GMT
I agree!
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Post by Polaris on Jan 6, 2018 22:43:02 GMT
I like that
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Post by aryan on Jan 10, 2018 10:58:16 GMT
It's fine I'm new member ..
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Post by ajay0 on Jan 13, 2018 11:46:01 GMT
Insightful thread.
I had a few days back come across a saying of Mark Twain....
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
I think this saying of Twain fits the thread's theme.
It shows how personal conditions and beliefs changes perspective or interpretation of reality as it is.
And this could be a reason why many people , while seeing the same one reality, have different interpretations of it, due to different belief systems.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2018 22:37:24 GMT
Yes. I always tell it to my friends, collegues and my enemies - there are many realities, not a one!.. Many people really are misunderstanded by those 'Matrix' series. So, there's no Matrix at all! There's the matrixes!
But in real it isn't change a lot. I have one point or imagination, you have another... so, what? What's the big deal? AjajO was right, even Mark Twain had noticed this things.
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