http://mindhacks.com/2004/12/17/cultivated-perception/ Neuroscience and psychology tricks to find out what's going on inside your brain. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:40:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2004/12/17/cultivated-perception/#comment-8609 Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:10:06 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2004/12/17/cultivated-perception/#comment-8609 This is quite interesting! I recall watching — when I was very young — a television show on which scientists were using a pupil-tracking device to monitor the areas of an image at which a viewed was looking, and to determine the pupil’s “path” through the image. You note: “Then I noticed that, perceptually, I wasn’t automatically grouping the answers with their appropriate tick boxes.” Do you feel that this pupil-path notion is identical to, or perhaps, another aspect of, your notions about grouping of objects and cultivated perception? Is pupil path cultivated? (When I read a question in a questionnaire, irrespective of the fact tht I know it is a questionnaire, my pupil spills past the question mark looking for the next sentence; the shorter the “pupil drop” to the tick boxes, the more _embedded_ I feel in the question — in a sense, the tick boxes are just part of an interactive sentence.) ||| :] ||| gabriel

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