Charles Limb: Your brain on improvisation (TED Talks)

January 13, 2011


Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds. 

Charles Limb: Your brain on improvisation (TED Talks) 
 

Cognitive Turn in Art History; Interview Mark Rowlands; Shamu en een gelukkig huwelijk

January 13, 2011
Cognitive turn in Art history

[...]Cognitive philosopher Alva Noë’s study, Action in Perception, analyzes visual perception from the perspective of neuroscience. As Noë observes, far from being precisely focused and expansive, our perceptual field consists of a small, central area of sharp focus called the fovea; the rest of the field becomes progressively blurry towards the edges. The silver (now oxidized to black) and gold frames of the miniatures in this manuscript suggest just such a b...
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Lezen

January 12, 2011
Lezen werkt stress verminderend werkt én verbetert het invoelend vermogen (empathie) van de lezer. Dat zijn niet alleen maar verhalen in The Telegraph of The Globe and Mail, maar dat blijkt ook door onderzoek bevestigd te worden: Readers of fiction tend to have better abilities of empathy and theory of mind:

... fiction exposure still predicted performance on an empathy task. Extending these results, we also found that exposure to fiction was positively correlated with social support. E...

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Coentje

January 5, 2011

 
Coen Moulijn, Rotterdam, 15 februari 1937 - 4 januari 2011
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Hulp bij goede voornemens

January 5, 2011
Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep. That is why, by the end of January, most people have already abandoned their new year's resolutions.

John Stuart Mill, in his classic defence of liberty, argued that each individual is ...

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Interieurideeën

December 28, 2010
Boekenplankporno:
 
deur met boeken overloop (met) boeken
onder de trap schots en scheef
nog een overloop
en nog een trap weer een trap
en nog maar eens een trap leeshoek
achterwand tussenwand
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Mededogen en mededogenst

December 21, 2010
"At a meeting of primates of the Anglican communion, I was accused by one archbishop of filling Hell with homosexuals, because I was giving them permission to commit acts that would guarantee them an eternity of punishment, for no sodomite can enter Heaven. My worldly compassion for gay people, my campaign to furnish them with the same sexual rights as straight people, was actually a kind of cruelty. The price of their fleeting pleasures in this world would be an eternity of punishment in the...
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De beste boeken van 2010

December 21, 2010


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Waarin Groot-Brittannië en Nederland erg op elkaar lijken

December 21, 2010
"I have been monitoring TV and radio coverage, watching travellers complain about a lack of information in airports and stranded drivers blaming "the authorities" and even opposition MPs criticising the government, particularly transport minister Philip Hammond.

Complainants routinely point to Sweden and Finland coping while Britain, as always, does not. (The same is being said here in Ireland). These knee-jerk criticisms are surely beside the point.

Britain and Ireland could hardly devote the ...

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Twijfel aan de twijfel

December 19, 2010
"God maakt de wereld en denkt erbij dat het net zo goed anders zou kunnen zijn."
(Robert Musil)

Twijfel aan de twijfel (Anton Zijderveld, Trouw)

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