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Keep playing games with my heart(beat) Communicating pulse through vibration is an immediate and physical way to feel connected to someone. It can be a meditative experience just to have your own heartbeat amplified and played back to you. The vibration mimics the beating, which has a therapeutic element, but the focus is on what [...] We’ve talked a lot about anxiety reduction techniques. For the final, I would like to make a relaxation device (working title ‘PaZuZu’) to combine the effects a pet might have to reduce a racing pulse. Thus: Pulse sensor (light + light sensor separated by thin skin) Soft surface (fireproof fabric ideal) Vibration (pager motor and [...] Inspiration: Inducing empathic anxiety through pheromone cues Jerry Sherman: ‘When someone has angered me, I won’t count to ten before responding. Instead, I won’t respond until I have identified a time when I’ve done something similar to what the offender has done. I won’t say, “Ah, there but for the grace of God go [...] Tonight at 6 pm “Projective Space”
(1st and Grand) $5 The Stroop test measures interference in your reaction time to stimuli. You are offered matched (congruent), neutral, and unmatched (incongruent) stimuli. The classic example of this is the color word/color test (“Red” written in yellow). Another would be number/number of words (when counting words, “three words” interferes with the correct response of 2). You could [...] Many of you are familiar with Patient HM, the famously co-operative epilepsy patient whose seizures were alleviated with a radical new technique – removing the hippocampus and parahippocampus. They managed to stop the wild propagation of nonsensical signalling cascading through his neurons. This man, Henry Molaison, is responsible for much of our understanding of the [...] |
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