Found 0 - 9 results of 9 programs matching keyword " visual illusions" |
Mind: Dr. Temple Grandin Lectures on Autism and the Animal Mind (Clip)
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01:42:44
01:42:44
Author and animal scientist Dr. Grandin shares her insights on ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder), visual thinking, and human and animal minds. Dr. Grandin, herself autistic, believes the autistic person's capacity to "see the actual things themselves" places autistic individuals in a unique position to understand the ways animals think.
Project: Mind | Browse All
Date: January 17, 2008
Format: Lecture
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology
Keywords: temple grandin, mind lecture series, autism, asperberger's, asd, visual thinking, animal behavior, external stimuli
Project: Mind | Browse All
Date: January 17, 2008
Format: Lecture
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology
Keywords: temple grandin, mind lecture series, autism, asperberger's, asd, visual thinking, animal behavior, external stimuli
Iron Science Teacher: St. Patrick's Day (Webcast)
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1:02:13
1:02:13
In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity from a special St. Patrick's Day secret ingredient-things that are green!
Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All
Date: March 17, 2006
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: st. patricks day, green, experiments, teachers, science, demonstations, making kimchi, visual illusions, taste buds, recycled materials, bending light
Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All
Date: March 17, 2006
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: st. patricks day, green, experiments, teachers, science, demonstations, making kimchi, visual illusions, taste buds, recycled materials, bending light
| Real: 256K |
Light and Landscape: James Turrell (Webcast)
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1:14:57
1:14:57
James Turrell studied optics and perceptual psychology in college, but gravitated towards art as his curiosity led him to investigate light itself. In this Webcast of a lecture, James Turrell discusses his experiences manipulating pure light and how it became his artistic medium. He reveals how this early work led him to discover Roden Crater in Arizona and to create his subsequent lifelong project of transforming the crater into an astronomical observatory.
Project: Light and Landscape | Browse All
Date: September 16, 2003
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts, General Science
Keywords: perception, art in nature, rosen crater, perceptual psychology, optical illusions, seeing from within, forms in light, installation artist, effect of light, luminous light works,
Project: Light and Landscape | Browse All
Date: September 16, 2003
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts, General Science
Keywords: perception, art in nature, rosen crater, perceptual psychology, optical illusions, seeing from within, forms in light, installation artist, effect of light, luminous light works,
| Real: 225K |
Seeing: Visual Literacy: A Talk With James Elkins (Webcast)
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1:24:22
1:24:22
What is visual literacy--and who is literate? Join guest lecturer James Elkins in an evening of commentary on the many ways we "read" the visual world and assign meaning to what we see.
Project: Seeing Exhibition | Browse All
Date: August 21, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts
Keywords: visual studies, visual culture, interpretation of images, art history, visual analysis, visual coomunication
Project: Seeing Exhibition | Browse All
Date: August 21, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts
Keywords: visual studies, visual culture, interpretation of images, art history, visual analysis, visual coomunication
| Real: 256K |
Origins: Antarctica: Antarctica: Mt. Erubus 2 (Webcast)
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0:21:02
0:21:02
Check in with Noel Wanner and Paul Doherty as they tell us more about their visit to the active volcano Mt. Erebus.
Project: Origins: Antarctica - Scientific Journeys from McMurdo to the Pole | Browse All
Date: December 9, 2001
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: mcmurdo station, volcanoes, fang camp summit of mt. erebus, mount erebus, mountain climbing, temperature of antarctica, lower erubus hut, gases of mt. erebus, weather on mt. erebus, visual description of antartica, perception of smell in antartica, cold temperatur
Project: Origins: Antarctica - Scientific Journeys from McMurdo to the Pole | Browse All
Date: December 9, 2001
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: mcmurdo station, volcanoes, fang camp summit of mt. erebus, mount erebus, mountain climbing, temperature of antarctica, lower erubus hut, gases of mt. erebus, weather on mt. erebus, visual description of antartica, perception of smell in antartica, cold temperatur
| Real: 80K |
Iron Science Teacher: Compact Discs (Webcast)
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0:54:03
0:54:03
Watch as the best teachers on the planet battle it out for the title of Iron Science Teacher. In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity. This week’s “secret” ingredient: compact ∂iscs!
Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All
Date: June 26, 1999
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: activities, contests, experiments, cds, cd's, finding the center of mass, benham's disc avtivity, turntable illusions, cd spinner, frictionlessness, hovercraft, frictionless cd puck, airpuck, balloon, digital sound, how a cd works, iridescence, interference, thin films, pe
Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All
Date: June 26, 1999
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: activities, contests, experiments, cds, cd's, finding the center of mass, benham's disc avtivity, turntable illusions, cd spinner, frictionlessness, hovercraft, frictionless cd puck, airpuck, balloon, digital sound, how a cd works, iridescence, interference, thin films, pe
| Real: 34K |
Memory: Dr. Jonathan Schooler -- Words Get in the Way: A Tasteful Exploration (Webcast)
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1:42:45
1:42:45
Can a question influence its answer? Discover the power of verbal overshadowing--ways in which words enhance or distract from different sensory memories. Dr. Schooler, Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and research scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center, will arrange a variety of sense-memory experiments, including wine-tasting and jellybean-tasting!
Project: Memory | Browse All
Date: December 6, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology
Keywords: verbal overshadowing, visual memories, memory impairment, verbal descriptions, language, eyewitness, memory perception, language and meaning, verbalization, thought and consciousness, describing taste, conceptual training, verbal knowledge, consciousness, understa
Project: Memory | Browse All
Date: December 6, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology
Keywords: verbal overshadowing, visual memories, memory impairment, verbal descriptions, language, eyewitness, memory perception, language and meaning, verbalization, thought and consciousness, describing taste, conceptual training, verbal knowledge, consciousness, understa
| Real: 16K |
Memory: Dr. Elizabeth Loftus and Dr. Jonathan Schooler on Recovered Memory (Webcast)
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2:02:21
2:02:21
What do you really remember? Dr. Jonathan Schooler and Dr. Elizabeth Loftus will discuss the highly controversial area of recovered memories. Dr. Schooler is Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and a research scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center. Dr. Loftus is Professor Psychology and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Project: Memory | Browse All
Date: December 2, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology
Keywords: verbal overshadowing, visual memories, memory impairment, verbal descriptions, language, eyewitness, memory perception, language and meaning, verbalization, thought and consciousness, describing taste, conceptual training, verbal knowledge, consciousness, underst
Project: Memory | Browse All
Date: December 2, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology
Keywords: verbal overshadowing, visual memories, memory impairment, verbal descriptions, language, eyewitness, memory perception, language and meaning, verbalization, thought and consciousness, describing taste, conceptual training, verbal knowledge, consciousness, underst
| Real: 16K |
AAAS Dispatches: Stump the Scientist: Benham's Disk Exhibit (Webcast)
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0:23:03
0:23:03
In these archived webcasts from inside the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) exhibition hall, watch as Exploratorium senior scientist Tom Humphrey challenges some of the top scientists in the world to explain the phenomena behind selected exhibits from the museum floor. In this webcast, the Benham's Disk exhibit
explained by guests from the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley and University High School in San Francisco
Project: AAAS Annual Meeting Dispatches, San Francisco | Browse All
Date: February 16, 1997
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: scientific process, scientific method, hypothesis, experimental studies, optical illusions, perception of color, circular motion
Project: AAAS Annual Meeting Dispatches, San Francisco | Browse All
Date: February 16, 1997
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: scientific process, scientific method, hypothesis, experimental studies, optical illusions, perception of color, circular motion
| Real: 35K |
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