In listening to Daniel Kahneman talk about intuition I get the sense that he’s an advocate for developing an environment that accepts intuition as a fundamental feature of human behavior, and accommodates its flaws and strengths.
Kahneman, and other cognitive psychologists, describe a two-part process of thought involving intuition and reasoning.
System 1 (intuitive) is: fast, [...]
last week in class we looked at the cognitive psychology effect called priming
here’s a definition:
Priming refers to a increased sensitivity to certain stimuli due to prior experience. Because priming it believed to occur outside of conscious awareness, it is different from memory that relies on the direct retrieval of information. Direct retrieval utilizes explicit memory, [...]
Last week Guna Nadarajan, Vice-provost for research at MICA, gave an interesting talk to the faculty and mentioned that research, especially in the US, is not something most artists and designers feel comfortable with, or even able, or qualified to do.
I found this lecture (below) by Jared Diamond on, among other things, applying science to [...]