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Cocktail party. Light passes through the eyeballs into electric signals and eventually into V1, the primary visual cortex in the occipital lobe, where the dark image is processed. Lines become triangles and circles, those become plates and glasses, those are put together to recognize the situation: cocktail party.

Girl walking by. The thalamus jumps in, blocking out processing of other details, focusing in on her, on her face. It's not familiar. It's bumped up to the hippocampus which makes a new memory of it: girl walking by.

"Hello." Meeting someone, so you start a conversation, so you say hi, which is the word "Hello", which is pronounced "HEH-lo", which is said by moving your mouth like this and vibrating your vocal cords (primary motor cortex, frontal lobe). "Hello."

Thank you brain.

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A beautiful library, so many books. What a feeling of power you get strolling among them, walking through the vast caverns of knowledge before stopping confidently before the book you're looking for and pulling off the shelf, flipping it to the appropriate page, and find it saying just the thing you needed to know. Here we collect what people think and thought, what they said and knew, what they did and wrote. All here for me. Water fountains and computers distributed conveniently throughout. Shelves numbered with the atrocious LC Catalog system.

The PsycInfo database. Literature going back all the way to 1840. Articles have abstracts, summaries of previous work, descriptions of their work, conclusions, and citations, lots of citations. Interesting fights over revisionist history, with behaviorists struggling to regain legitimacy.

Other journals very different, less focused on details of experiments, more on general themes and theories. It's silly that work develops this way, with more and more articles piling up, continually throwing things on the stack, little attempts to work out consensus.

21. Eisenberger, R. & Cameron, J. (1996). Detrimental effects of reward: Reality or myth? American Psychologist, 51, 1153-1166. [Abstract] [Cited by 105] [Full-Text HTML] [Full-Text PDF(1611 Kb)]