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The battle for reality: String theory vs quantum field theory

In this video, we explore the relationship between string theory and quantum field theory (QFT). QFT is a mathematical ...
The Washington Post

Anne Treisman, pathbreaking psychologist who developed a theory of perception, dies at 82

Anne Treisman, a psychologist whose pathbreaking research into human perception and attention helped explain how the mind, not the eyes, serves as the true window to the world, died Feb. 9 at her home ...
The Harvard Crimson

The Joel E. Cohen Translation of Abraham Moles's "Information Theory and Esthetic Perception"

Abraham Moles's newly translated Information Theory and Esthetic Perception is a book with one interesting idea, which emerges, crablike, from the murky burrow of Chapter Five. The idea is that ...
MIT Technology Review

An Undiscovered Link Between Sensory Perception and Shannon’s Theory of Information

In 1834, the German physiologist Ernst Weber (pictured above) carried out a series of experiments to determine the limits of sensory perception. He gave a blindfolded man a mass to hold and gradually ...
Psychology Today

Polyvagal Theory: An Approach to Understanding Trauma

Co-authored by Lotus Huyen Vu and Robert T. Muller, Ph.D. In 1994, Stephen Porges introduced the polyvagal theory, based on an evolutionary, neuropsychological understanding of the vagus nerve’s role ...