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 [...]
while doing some research on self-experimentation (actually identity-experimentation is more accurate, i’m interested in developing some insight regarding understanding my own [and by extension one's own - we're very similar, you and i] affective relationships with environmental elements [a la Kurt Lewin's Force Field Theory], and my cognitive biases- new year’s resolution…) i found [...]