scholarly journals What Is Our Most Important Sense?

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Hutmacher
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Unique Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Important Sense

For most people, vision is their most important sense. Indeed, vision is crucial in many situations of our daily lives—like reading this article. Additionally, a large part of the human brain is dedicated to processing visual information, while information from the other senses is processed in much smaller brain regions. However, we should not forget about the importance of our other senses too quickly. Each sense provides us with unique information about ourselves and the world. In other words, each sense captures a different aspect of reality. If we understand this, we can start to appreciate the richness and diversity of our sensory abilities in a new way. We can be grateful that we have all of our senses and that they give us such a diverse access to the world.

scholarly journals Changes in Cortical Thickness in 6-Year-Old Children Open Their Mind to a Global Vision of the World

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Poirel ◽  
Elise Leroux ◽  
Arlette Pineau ◽  
Olivier Houdé ◽  
Grégory Simon
Keyword(s):  
Cortical Thickness ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Healthy Children ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Vision ◽  
Global Perception ◽  
Visual Bias ◽  
Synaptic Pruning

Even if objectively presented with similar visual stimuli, children younger than 6 years of age exhibit a strong attraction to local visual information (e.g., the trees), whereas children older than 6 years of age, similar to adults, exhibit a visual bias toward global information (e.g., the forest). Here, we studied the cortical thickness changes that underlie this bias shift from local to global visual information. Two groups, matched for age, gender, and handedness, were formed from a total of 30 children who were 6 years old, and both groups performed a traditional global/local visual task. The first group presented a local visual bias, and the other group presented a global visual bias. The results indicated that, compared with the local visual bias group, children with a global visual bias exhibited (1) decreased cortical thickness in the bilateral occipital regions and (2) increased cortical thickness in the left frontoparietal regions. These findings constitute the first structural study that supports the view that both synaptic pruning (i.e., decreased cortical thickness) and expansion mechanisms (i.e., increased cortical thickness) cooccur to allow healthy children to develop a global perception of the visual world.

Analysis of Habib Husein Ja'far "Jeda Nulis" Podcast as a Medium of Dakwah Against Young Generation on Era 4.0

2021 ◽  
pp. 01-13
Author(s):  
Bella Munita Sary ◽  
Masayu Fatiyah Nuraziimah ◽  
Nurhasanah Walijah
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
New Media ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Pros And Cons

The rapid development of technology has had a massive impact in the use of new media in various parts of the world. Its goal is to help for  making it easier for people to live their daily lives. One of the new media that has recently become a favorite of the public, especially in Indonesia is a  podcast. In Indonesia, a Youtube podcast channel "Jeda Nulis" owned by Habib Husein Ja'far Al Hadar or Habib Ja'far is a new favorite among young adults. Habib Ja'far not only uses Youtube for its Jeda Nulis podcast, but also Spotify. This study aims to analyze the Jeda Nulis podcast and observes people’s responses to the Islamic da'wah strategy introduced by Habib Ja’far. The method used in this research is a literature review that includes the process of listening to and analyzing podcasts in "Jeda Nulis" YouTube channel as preaching media. The results of this study show that there are pros and cons to this podcast. The pro commentary has liked this podcast because of the way the preaching was delivered by Habib Husein Ja'far as well. On the other hand, there are also people who are uncomfortable with the podcast "Jeda Nulis” in accordance with the content and  many people who feel that they are inferior to him.

Virtual Reality in Medicine

2009 ◽  
pp. 1531-1536
Author(s):  
Michelle LaBrunda ◽  
Andrew LaBrunda
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Surgical Procedures ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tissue Temperature ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Tactile Input ◽  
The World

Virtual reality is a collection of technologies that enable people to use their senses to experience sensory input provided from a source other than the immediate environment. These events may occur in real time, can be a simulation, or can be completely fictional. Virtual reality (VR) has progressed beyond its military beginnings and is progressively making its way into people’s daily lives. The most prevalent implementation of VR can be found in many forms of modern entertainment such as computer games or IMAX (image maximum) theaters. VR has received little publicity but has enormous potential in the realm of medicine. The utility of VR is starting to be appreciated by the medical community. It is slowly being adopted and implemented in the surgical, medical, and psychiatric specialties. Medical uses of VR are primarily directed toward the simulation of visual, audio, and tactile input. With the aid of VR doctors will be able to perform specialized surgery on a patient from the other side of the world. Students are able to simulate and experience surgical procedures without compromising a patient’s health. Finally, VR can heighten a doctor´s senses and allows input that would be absent without the aid of VR, such as relative bone positions and tissue temperature.

scholarly journals For an autonomous existence of images: an archaeological perspective

Lumina ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Cláudio S. Castanheira
Keyword(s):  
Digital Images ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Multiple Devices ◽  
Functional Autonomy ◽  
Archaeological Perspective

Monitoring and interpreting an increasing number of images has become part of people’s daily lives. These images trigger a complex process of relations that can result in direct human or non-human actions over people, over services or over the very space. As part of a broader and widespread mediascape, the repertoire of images, its organization and connection to multiple devices and huge databases, make interpretation processes much more complex and beyond our reach. When arranged in a network, technical devices do not need to follow a logic narrative of facts. Paradoxically, they contribute to the construction of all possible narratives. This work proposes, from an archaeological perspective, that the intentionality of images, especially those that are produced and circulate in digital environment, is the symptom of a contemporary episteme that delegates to objects not just a functional autonomy, but also one of existence and of description of the world. The multiplicity of digital images makes of them Beings that exist beyond the human and that constitute a kind of continuous phenomenological machinic process, an awareness of the self and of the other.

Scent on display

Impact ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (10) ◽  
pp. 47-49
Author(s):  
Yuichi Bannai
Keyword(s):  
Visual Information ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sense Of Smell ◽  
Olfactory Information ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The World ◽  
Information Media ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Audio Information ◽  
Human Sense

In general, the information and communications that humans receive from computers, smartphones, televisions and the majority of other screens, tend to be limited to visual information and audio information. If we think of any medium that has swept the world in the last century, it is fair to say that most are heavily reliant on using the eyes and ears in order to experience what is being transmitted. More and more there seems to be a desire to improve the personal experiences, such as the development of 3D viewing.However, in recent years, attention has turned to another human sense that is generally not considered when we think of digital mediums - the sense of smell. Olfactory information is of particular interest because it is different from the information that is recognised by the other four senses (sight, hearing, touch and taste). The sense of smell is known to influence human feelings through olfactory information transmitting to the cerebral limbic system, which governs emotions and memories. Professor Yuichi Bannai is a researcher based at the Department of Information Media within the Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan, where researchers are now investigating a means of incorporating olfactory information into different mediums to improve experience and heighten pleasure.

scholarly journals De Qi, a Threshold of the Stimulus Intensity, Elicits the Specific Response of Acupoints and Intrinsic Change of Human Brain to Acupuncture

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dai-Shi Tian ◽  
Jin Xiong ◽  
Qing Pan ◽  
Fang Liu ◽  
Lu Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Flow ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Healthy Adult ◽  
Acupuncture Treatment ◽  
Intrinsic Property ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Specific Response ◽  
The World ◽  
Adult Volunteers ◽  
De Qi

Objectives.  De qiis the subjective constellation of sensations perceived by the acupuncturists and patients as described in several literatures, but the absence of quantitative evaluation methods inde qirestricts the use of acupuncture treatment widely in the world. In the present study, we tried to investigate the intrinsic property ofde qiis and how evaluate it quantitatively.Methods.30 healthy adult volunteers were determined to investigate intrinsic changes in the human body after acupuncture withde qi.Results.Acupuncture treatment withde qiapparently increased acupoint blood flow, tissue displacement, and the amplitude of myoelectricity afterde qion acupoints. Furthermore, acupuncture treatment induced fMRI signal increase/decrease in different brain regions although no significant change in electroencephalography.Interpretation.The intrinsic change of the subjects representing the specific response of acupoints and human brain to acupuncture indicated thatde qimight be evaluated quantitatively by those above aspects, which facilitated the confirmation in validity and propagation of this treatment modality widely in the world.

scholarly journals Physician Athletes Promoting Physical Fitness Through Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 152483992098826
Author(s):  
Fatima Cody Stanford ◽  
Arghavan Salles
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Physical Inactivity ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Strength Exercises ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Media Platforms

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on our daily lives and functioning. To reduce the potential transmission, countries throughout the world practiced social distancing. Unfortunately, this social distancing often contributed to a sense of social isolation and physical inactivity. Two physician athletes on opposite coasts of the United States sought to change this narrative by promoting physical activity among the general population with the #SocialDistancingFitnessChallenge. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in March and April 2020, these physicians would post exercises during the 5-day workweek—one would post yoga/flexibility exercises, while the other would post high-intensity cardio and strength exercises on two social media platforms. Some posts would amass over 100,000 views. They received daily feedback on how this challenge not only encouraged others to be engaged in physical activity during the most challenging pandemic of our lifetimes, but it also improved their mental health and outlook on the future amid great uncertainty.

Indonesian Literature’s Position in World Literature

TEKNOSASTIK ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dina Amelia
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Western World ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Voice

There are two most inevitable issues on national literature, in this case Indonesian literature. First is the translation and the second is the standard of world literature. Can one speak for the other as a representative? Why is this representation matter? Does translation embody the voice of the represented? Without translation Indonesian literature cannot gain its recognition in world literature, yet, translation conveys the voice of other. In the case of production, publication, or distribution of Indonesian Literature to the world, translation works can be very beneficial. The position of Indonesian literature is as a part of world literature. The concept that the Western world should be the one who represent the subaltern can be overcome as long as the subaltern performs as the active speaker. If the subaltern remains silent then it means it allows the “representation” by the Western.

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