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| Maartje C. de Jong - Dance your PhD |
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Winner of the AAAS 'Dance Your PhD' contest 2010 in the category Biology: PhD research translated into a dance (52K views), see [Science magazine] |
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How does your brain analyzed visual information? |
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[Text explaining the dance] [Photos of rehearsals] Watch this video on [Vimeo] and [YouTube]. |
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Explanation of the dance: | |
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| You are about to watch a video-clip... Visual information will be entering your brain. | |
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| At first the visual information in your brain is unorganized. There is a lot of information and it is a mess. | In an intelligent way the brain examines and organizes the information. | <
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| It is too much to experience everything there is to see. You will select only a small part of the information for conscious experience. | Then you are suddenly interrupted by a phone call and you forget about the video-clip for a moment. |
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| After the phone call you look at the video-clip again. Because your brain has remembered it the structuring of information will be fast and efficient. | The way you perceive the video-clip is modified by your memories. The memories stored in your brain interact with the visual information. |
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| The result: watching the video-clip is a vivid conscious experience you will not forget! | |
