visual stimuli

does talking about or seeing commercials about food make you hungry?

you know the test that pavlov did with his dogs? where he trained them to react to a certain stimulus? well does talking and hearing about food and seeing it on tv make you hungry?

Sarah Palin's Image Problem

Makeovers are popular. They're featured in magazine spreads and reality tv shows everywhere. Not a new trend either... even Hans Christian Andersen was writing about them in 1843. We like watching...

Relax: No One is Reading Your Mind

At first, scientists from Harvard, a college in Massachusetts, were trying to randomize a medical study so God wouldn't know. Now a group of venerable academic psychologists under Dr. Stephen Kosslyn...

Outlines

broken beat// future jazz// hip-hop Breakdancing and graffiti roots converge with fashionable French writing and visual stimuli to create a contagious blend of soulful, jazzy good rhymes, laden...

Shiny Bits: Apple Illuminating Touchpads and Clickwheels

According to a patent filed by Apple, the company's MacBook touchpads and signature iPod clickwheel might be in for a very visual overhaul. The proposed technology will allow for both lighting and...

Skull and Guts Music! No Fun!

For Pico.Say these words aloud: “You boy--What's it like to wet your foot in a cold swimming pool?--What does your voice sound like underwater?--At night?--Can you do the chickenskin...

Today's Brew| Menomena-mania

So I caught the Menomena show atthe Echo this past weekend. Quite an amazing show. Unfortunately I don't have any visual stimuli to entice your eyes of what the show was like. Since my poor digital...