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“Seeing red” is real. But how does it happen?

October 27, 2022Justice, Science, Thursday postsAuras, Choosing feelings, Psi, University of RochesterWilliam Tell

The scientific reason your world brightens up when you do

This study affirms some common observations about color perceptions and emotional states. When one is enraged, the color red appears more vivid in one’s perceptions; when depressed, the color blue. When one feels elated, all colors appear brighter, and in times of severe depression color perception can all but disappear; the world looks black and white. Or, perhaps, bleak and white.

The study attempts, and IMO fails, to attribute these things to the activity of neurotransmitters such as dopamine. But there is no finding of direct action by such neurotransmitters on the color-perceiving apparatus of the visual cortex.

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A landmark study

November 18, 2021Justice, National news, Poverty, Science, Thursday postsArrested development, Chaos, Chaos and order, Chaos overwhelms the poor, Developmental psychology, Tohu, University of RochesterWilliam Tell

Stress in low-income families can affect children’s learning

I am very excited about this.

This is, as far as I know, the first study to attempt to measure the degree of chaos in the home.

The researchers in an earlier-mentioned study (Related: Poor children have smaller brains) speculated that “poor families tend to live more chaotic lives, and that stress could inhibit healthy brain development.” The current study seems to indicate that it is directly so.

As of this writing, my hypothesis has become as follows: the chaos of a growing child’s environment causes comparatively more resources to be devoted to the limbic system and less to the cerebral cortex, resulting in a body with reduced capacity to learn.

Related: A MUST-READ CONCERNING JUSTICE AND POVERTY
Related: Chaos overwhelms the poor
Related: Wisdom teaching in poor black homes

(Originally posted 2015-07-08; reblogged 10/13/16.)

A landmark study

October 13, 2016Clippings, Justice, National news, OUR BEST POSTS, Poverty, ScienceArrested development, Chaos, Chaos and order, Chaos overwhelms the poor, Developmental psychology, Tohu, University of RochesterWilliam Tell

(Originally posted 07/08/15.)

Stress in low-income families can affect children’s learning

I am very excited about this.

This is, as far as I know, the first study to attempt to measure the degree of chaos in the home.

The researchers in an earlier-mentioned study (Related: Poor children have smaller brains) speculated that “poor families tend to live more chaotic lives, and that stress could inhibit healthy brain development.” The current study seems to indicate that it is directly so.

As of this writing, my hypothesis has become as follows: the chaos of a growing child’s environment causes comparatively more resources to be devoted to the limbic system and less to the cerebral cortex, resulting in a body with reduced capacity to learn.

Related: A MUST-READ CONCERNING JUSTICE AND POVERTY
Related: Chaos overwhelms the poor

* Papa John, Antichrist?

March 21, 2016Clippings, National media, National news, ScienceAtheists, Carillon, Catherine Rampell, Cultural appropriation, General relativity, Harmony, Political correctness, Prayer, Space travel, Time travel, University of RochesterWilliam Tell

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* “Seeing red” is real. But how does it happen?

November 21, 2015Clippings, Justice, OUR BEST POSTS, ScienceAuras, Choosing feelings, Psi, University of RochesterWilliam Tell

The scientific reason your world brightens up when you do

This study affirms some common observations about color perceptions and emotional states. When one is enraged, the color red appears more vivid in one’s perceptions; when depressed, the color blue. When one feels elated, all colors appear brighter, and in times of severe depression color perception can all but disappear; the world looks black and white. Or, perhaps, bleak and white.

The study attempts, and IMO fails, to attribute these things to the activity of neurotransmitters such as dopamine. But there is no finding of direct action by such neurotransmitters on the color-perceiving apparatus of the visual cortex.

Continue reading * “Seeing red” is real. But how does it happen? →

* A landmark study

July 8, 2015Clippings, Justice, National news, OUR BEST POSTS, Poverty, ScienceArrested development, Chaos, Chaos and order, Chaos overwhelms the poor, Developmental psychology, Tohu, University of RochesterWilliam Tell

Stress in low-income families can affect children’s learning

I am very excited about this.

This is, as far as I know, the first study to attempt to measure the degree of chaos in the home.

The researchers in an earlier-mentioned study (Related: Poor children have smaller brains) speculated that “poor families tend to live more chaotic lives, and that stress could inhibit healthy brain development.” The current study seems to indicate that it is directly so.

As of this writing, my hypothesis has become as follows: the chaos of a growing child’s environment causes comparatively more resources to be devoted to the limbic system and less to the cerebral cortex, resulting in a body with reduced capacity to learn.

Related: A MUST-READ CONCERNING JUSTICE AND POVERTY
Related: Chaos overwhelms the poor
Related: Wisdom teaching in poor black homes

(Reblogged 10/13/16, 11/18/21.)