• Short Assignment—Oliver SacksShort Assignment

A notebook by OLIVER SACKS, a neuroscientist, about Virgil, who lost his sight as a child and regained it at the age of 50. It tells how he can’t adapt to the world with sight. The story is unusual in that the ending is not like in the storybook, Virgil can see everything and everything is perfect for him. Virgil is so overwhelmed by the stimuli that he is unable to understand the new world input into his brain. He could not relate the different parts of what he saw, and each new vision presented something new and unique. In our lives, we are used to seeing objects and what is combined with them. For someone who has acquired vision, he has lived without it for 45 years, and his experience depends on this missing piece. When the missing piece suddenly becomes available, life becomes more difficult because he knows the world without it. At the end of the story, the man goes blind again, which is a gift, a return to the reality he always knew. If you don’t have all five senses, you have a lot of power, especially when you’re growing up in that situation. The brain and body learn how to efficiently process what is given to them.

• Project 5: Perception Studies

• Masks impair the  recognition of six basic facial expression (Anger, Disgust, Fear, Happy, Sad, Surprised).
• The new research suggests that visual information from lower portions of the face play an important role in understanding facial expressions. The perceived accuracy rate was approximately 23%.
• affect least: fear, happy, surprise
• affect most: anger, disgust, sad
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