Lupyan Lab

Blog of Gary Lupyan's Lab at UW Madison

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Carl Zimmer piece about people who can’t form mental images.

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eBook for python, in case you needed another one.

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German Family Massacres LL Cool J Hit In Moving Vehicle (With Accordion)

For Martin. Party pooper guy is back.

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Brain physics.

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From Franconeri, S. L. (2013). The nature and status of visual resources. 

Reminds of the guy that would pop in every once in a while in Mortal Kombat.

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From the home page of a vis conference.

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- pierce

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Red-Green & Blue-Yellow: The Stunning Colors You Can't See

Huh, I didn't know about this.  Interesting...  which measure should one trust here? People's reports that the colors are unlike anything they've seen before or their matching the colors to 'mud'?

Vision research over the past 30 years has gradually proven that forbidden colors — reddish green and yellowish blue — are real, though some scientists still don't believe it.

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Some tips on writing strategies that are worth a read.

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A cutsie way to learn about terminal commands.

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No step two needed.

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"The analysis of MEP amplitudes suggested that activity in primary motor cortex during action observation was greatest during observation of the grasping actions of the rat and elephant, and smallest for the human and robotic arm."

I've always known that I understand elephants and rats more than humans and robots.,,

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Which way is the dancer spinning? Joking I have no idea if this is even considered an illusion, it's just kinda trippy.

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The high for today is 41 degrees... 

Their meaning of "today" is different than mine.

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tDCS Basic Kit with step by step instructions: Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific

Out of stock!

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Interesting…

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4 Features From Other Languages That We Wish English Had

If you were redesigning English, and you could make it do anything that any other language in the world does, what would you change? In the video below, YouTuber Tom Scott talks about four fantastic features in other languages that he wishes were found in English.