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Graphesthesia on human fingernails
Get PDFThe fingernails have been considered passive support structures that enhance tactile sensitivity by providing a rigid background, preventing the fingertips from slipping when interacting with objects. Recent studies have provided evidence that the people can perform basic tactile judgments of stimuli applied to the fingernails. In this study, we investigate whether fingernails also contribute to more complex, higher-order spatial processing. Specifically, we examine graphesthesia – the ability to recognise shapes or letters traced onto the skin – and assess whether this tactile capacity extends to the fingernail. Participants were asked to discriminate between the letters b, d, p, and q drawn either on the left middle fingertip or fingernail. Results showed that graphesthetic performance was lower on the fingernail compared to the fingertip. However, participants were still able to classify letters drawn on the fingernail at levels significantly above chance. These findings align with theoretical claims that the fingernail plays a role in perception and expand the growing body of evidence supporting its perceptual functions highlighting the fingernail as an active contributor to complex spatial processing in touch perception
Public communication alters private confidence
Get PDFWe use our private feelings of confidence to coordinate our public, social lives. When making joint decisions we can share our uncertainty honestly to reach an accurate consensus, or exaggerate our confidence to increase our influence on the group. Some theories in cognitive neuroscience suggest that we can strategically distort the confidence we express to others while leaving our private feelings unchanged, but recently we hypothesised that our interactions with others may be a key source of beliefs about uncertainty in our own minds. Consistent with this idea, we show that changes in how we publicly communicate our confidence to others can lead to changes in private confidence when we’re alone. Combining behavioural experiments and computational modelling reveals how the dynamics of social interaction can shape our sense of confidence, and suggests a mechanism that could explain the emergence and persistence of confidence biases in interacting groups
Three funerals
No full textA short meditation on the queer art of mourning, as viewed through the biography of my relative Bryan Bale and the notion of the family funeral
Age of granitoid magmatism in South Georgia and correlations to southern Patagonia and the northern Antarctic Peninsula
Get PDFSouth Georgia forms one of the most isolated fragments of continental crust on Earth and lies in a remote location in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Its geology is dominated by Early Cretaceous back-arc turbidite successions that are in faulted contact with a late Palaeozoic – early Mesozoic accretionary complex. The accretionary complex includes fragments of a deformed accretionary prism and ophiolite that are intruded by a suite of granitoid plutons that are dated here. Granitoid magmatism has been identified from the Middle Jurassic (c. 163 Ma) and Late Cretaceous (c. 107 Ma, c. 86 Ma), which can be correlated with convergent margin magmatism from the southern (Fuegian) Andes and Cordillera Darwin of southern Patagonia, and the northern Antarctic Peninsula, with the Late Cretaceous magmatism restricted to the western parts of each area. These correlations support earlier findings that established a contiguous relationship between the southeast sector of South Georgia and southernmost Patagonia (south of the Magallanes fault zone) and the northern sector of Graham Land (Antarctic Peninsula)
The Lineages and Inheritances of Shadow Libraries and their Documentation
Get PDFThis is a post about pirate libraries and their technologies and documentation. Before we go any further, I wish to clarify that I am not endorsing any of these sites and am certainly not involved in any of their operations. I am merely interested in them as a scholarly publishing phenomenon. To write this post, I had to look at the Anna’s Archive metadata set
"You're not to speak unless you're spoken to": parent voice in public law proceedings in England and Wales
No full textRecent policy rhetoric underlines the value of listening to those with first-hand experience of the family courts to better understand how the system could be adapted to benefit parents’ participation. This paper examines the participative experiences of 28 parents who were involved in recent care proceedings in England and Wales, with a focus on the procedural justice concept of voice. In-depth, narrative interviews highlight embedded, systemic barriers to parents’ participation, including the formality of legal language, procedure, and courtroom layout. Parents’ assessments of their legal representation and their interactions with the judge are important markers of whether they felt heard in the proceedings. The wider implications of findings are examined, including the gulf that exists in interpretations of ‘voice’ between professionals and parents as parties in legal proceedings. Adaptations to professional practice and court processes to better accommodate parent voice are considered
Institutions shifting away from big tech
Get PDFThis morning, Kathleen Fitzpatrick drew my attention to a Mastodon post by Babette Knauer about plans for the University of #Groningen to get away from Big Tech. The article itself is well worth a read, with ambitious approaches to digital independence. I had some not-very-original thoughts on it
Is emotional support in the aftermath of collective traumatic events beneficial? The role of collective rumination
No full textCollective traumas emotionally affect individuals who identify with groups/communities targeted by major traumatic events. When exposed to such occurrences, individuals turn to similarly impacted others for emotional social support. Alongside providing support, turning to others who are also affected by a collective trauma may trigger collective rumination about the traumatic event – with rumination known to decrease rather than increase well-being. We examined whether receiving social support following a collective traumatic occurrence may be unhelpful for the receiver’s wellbeing due to collective rumination and report online survey results from two terrorist attacks and the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings from Study 1a and 1b provided initial indications that individuals who received support from others experienced a decrease in wellbeing. Teasing apart potentially competing processes at play in Study 2 (receipt of support/collective rumination) we found supporting evidence for the well-documented positive association between support and wellbeing. However, the collective rumination involved in turning to similarly affected others fully counteracted this positive association
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