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What is the difference between affect and feeling?
What exactly is the difference between affect and feeling?
Affect seems to refer to conscious experience:
Affect is the experience of feeling or emotion.
And confusingly, so does feeling:
In psychology, the word is usually reserved for the
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What is the difference between RR-intervals and NN-intervals in HRV-data?
Heart rate variability (HRV) is often used as a measure of the sympathetic nervous system. One way to quantify HRV is by calculating the Inter-beat interval (IBI), also referred to as the RR-interval. The RR-interval refers to the time between two…
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Why can't we understand text without subvocalizating it?
I wonder why can't we understand text the same way we understand pictures?
Everything we see but text we understand without the inner voice, we don't subvocalize/describe a forest, a street or anything. We just understand it.
Why can't reading work…
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Open-source software for analyzing Electrodermal activity
Electrodermal activity (EDA) is a measure of the sympathetic activity, typically caused by stress or an emotional state. Analysis not a straightforward process like analysing reaction times. It requires some sophisticated algorithms to distinguish…
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Chunking Patterns and Enjoyment of Applying Patterns
I've been reading a book "The Theory of Fun in Game Design" it talks about two concepts of psychology that I wanted to confirm are true. The writer the book isn't a psychologist.
The two concepts are Chunking Patterns and Enjoyment of Applying…
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What does the visual feed from the retina look like before it is processed by the visual cortex?
I was recently at the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, where I saw a keynote on visual attention. The speaker (Laurent Itti) showed an animation that blew my mind. It showed a video of fish swimming in the ocean, and next to it, the same video…
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Reproducible meta-analysis in psychology
I am a big proponent of reproducible data analysis. In particular, I like when researchers share documents in formats like Sweave and knitr which weave statistical output (e.g., text, tables, and graphs) into a statistical report.
I previously…
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How does the inner ear encode sound intensity?
Different areas of the inner ear (the cochlea) are sensitive to different acoustic frequencies. Hence, the cochlea basically performs a fast Fourier transform on the audio signal. This spectral information is subsequently sent to the auditory…
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Are there empirical studies showing that one sex is more sexually selective than the other?
Initial research: I've found papers by Clark and Hatfield (1989) and Buss and Schmidt (1993) that seem to lend support to the idea of heterosexual females being more selective than heterosexual males.
Motivation: I have constructed a game theoretic…
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How does body temperature and oxygenation affect thinking ability?
I'm interested if the brain works better when the temperature is higher than usual and the amount of oxygen in the air is a bit lower than in fresh mountain air. This has been my personal experience.
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How can STDP fit with reciprocal connectivity?
I have rather technical question regarding STDP dynamics.
I am working on a neural network implementing an STDP learning algorithm, and have noticed that it is extremely anti-reciprocal. When two neurons have bidirectional connectivity between…
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Are intelligence scores correlated with detection of second stimulus in an Attentional Blink test?
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Attentional Blink: An attentional blink is a phenomenon where when presented with rapid visual stimuli if you are asked to track two particular stimuli you will fail to notice the second if it is preceded shortly after the first…
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Does a split brain affect the inner voice?
In the Nature link provided, split brain reportedly alters the processing of sensory input (e.g., an aberrant performance on monocular visual tasks under laboratory conditions), and impairs motor output execution (e.g., impaired ability to make…
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What is the difference between Avolition and Laziness?
What is the difference between Laziness and Avolition?
They seem behaviorally similar. Is the difference cognitive perhaps?
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Why do people have different personalities when speaking different languages?
Edit: This study is much more relevant in terms of the question.
This study suggests (according to article linked below) that a multilingual person can have multiple personalities, each tied to one of the languages that he or she speaks.
Here's an…
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