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question about prosopagnosia and/or capgras delusion.
<p> prosopagnosia can be caused by lesions in various parts of the inferior occipital areas (occipital face area), fusiform gyrus (fusiform face area), and the anterior temporal cortex. positron emission tomography (pet) and fmri scans have shown that, in individuals without prosopagnosia, these areas are activated spe...
Have you had an MRI recently?
if an earth-sized planet hit jupiter, what would happen, what would we see?
<p> on march 17, 2016, a jupiter impact event occurred involving an unknown object, possibly a small comet or asteroid initially estimated at 30–90 meters (or a few hundred feet) across. the size estimate was later corrected to 7 and 19 meters. the event was first reported by austrian amateur astronomer gerrit kernbaue...
care to put up your maths?
how is instinctual behaviors like flight in birds produced by their brains?
<p> some instinctive behaviors depend on maturational processes to appear. for instance, we commonly refer to birds "learning" to fly. however, young birds have been experimentally reared in devices that prevent them from moving their wings until they reached the age at which their cohorts were flying. these birds flew...
That is one of the open questions of science. We've only made small headway in understanding how brains are wired - and separating the Nature from Nurture components of the wiring is still beyond what our tools can do.
why is it easier to interpret small pixelated images over large pixelated images?
<p> a drawback of pixelization is that any differences between the large pixels can be exploited in moving images to reconstruct the original, unpixelized image; squinting at a pixelized, moving image can sometimes achieve a similar result. in both cases, integration of the large pixels over time allows smaller, more a...
There are a few reasons. The basic reason, though, is that for a given pixelated image, the spatial frequency of the image changes with viewing distance, and that when viewed close up. In the examples you linked to, the smaller images at right have a relatively high spatial frequency, not far off from the images you'd ...