News tagged with abstract
Their infinite wisdom
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hotel guests come and go. But in the first decade of the 1900s, a pair of frequent Russian visitors to the Hotel Parisiana, near the Sorbonne on Paris' Left Bank, stood out vividly. The children ...
The Link Between Weight and Importance
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has demonstrated what we must have known all along at some level: that there is a link between the physical act of carrying heavy objects and the abstract concept of importance.
Evidence appears to show how and where frontal lobe works
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 02, 2009 |
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(Physorg.com) -- A Brown University study of stroke victims has produced evidence that the frontal lobe of the human brain controls decision-making along a continuum from abstract to concrete, from front to ...
Evolution of the visual system is key to abstract art
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 17, 2008 |
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Famous works of abstract art achieve popularity by using shapes that resonate with the neural mechanisms in the brain linked to visual information, a psychologist at the University of Liverpool has discovered.
Persuading novice voters with abstract or concrete messages: Timing is everything
Oct 16, 2008 |
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When Barack Obama began his Presidential campaign, his rhetoric emphasized abstract notions of hope, change, and judgment. In contrast, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and other candidates frequently presented detailed, concrete ...
