August conquered his demons and played his first piano recital on a grand piano in front of a savage crowd. Yes!
Concept acquisition fMRI getting some love
Here's a figure from our concept acquisition and semantic access paper. I'm hoping to get this beast out for review in a couple of weeks.
ResearchGate: The Devil is in the Downloads
Out to lunch....
This made my day.
7-year old existential podiatry question
I was driving past Temple's podiatry school last night on my way to dinner with my son. I naturally took the opportunity to explain that there are specialized doctors called podiatrists. My son asks probably the best question I could ever think of:
"Well, how do people get there then?"
Lab T-Shirt Design with a little eyetracking motif
I should have done an MBA
A Sunday morning kitchen experiment...
I love the logic of this. Cereal that advertises for 10g of protein with milk begs the question of how much protein comes from the milk.
8g of the advertised protein comes from the milk. These Don Drapers of the marketing world are geniuses. I could advertise water that has 8 grams of protein when added to milk using the same formula.
Why didn't I just do an MBA?
Semantic model for upcoming paper
This simple Tinker Toy schematic of semantic memory organization took me 11 years to develop. Sensorimotor modules (a=vision, b=motor, c=olfaction, etc) feed a low-order hub (probably the angular gyrus). The low order hub binds representations into a coarse format that is then subjected to symbolic transformations by the high order hub. Words (lex in the schematic) access symbolic representations directly. Language and percepts combine within high order hubs because they share the same root symbolic representation.
Florida visit for dissertation defense
Just returned from Gainesville, Florida where my PhD student successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations, Josh!
Here's August messing around in the swamp near our old house. It was great to see everyone but also quite sad to see the shape of my former department.
More venn diagramming
This thing is actually turning out pretty nicely. I have great respect for graphic designers. Just doing a simple graphic like this took forever and a day.
Joshua Troche has a sinister dissertation look...
Mild mannered, Joshua Troche, looks like he's out for blood here. I've never seen him look so sinister. This is the last month of his dissertation. Hold it together, man!
I can't make out the writing on that whiteboard, but I suspect it rings of Jack Torrence from the Shining.
The Binney Fly
In the midst of creating novel animals for our eyetracking study we discovered Sculptrix, a 3d rendering program. Richard created this awesome little fly today.
Per the Google N-Gram database, I *might* have been wrong in that Sherlock Holmes article
Franz Liszt... La Campenella
La Campenella in G-Sharp minor is almost too improbable to exist. It's so powerful. It floors me every time.
Random thoughts: a retrospective analysis
I just read this whole section of the website. Wow. I really present as having a thought disorder. To the best of my knowledge, though, this is not the case.
Music selection
Okay, everyone makes fun of me when I post my ongoing music selections. However, I have to give a shoutout to Erik Satie's Gnossiene #3 right now. Listen to it on Spotify. It'll haunt the crap out of you.
Snodgrass Kangaroo
Look at this little darling. I colorized the Snodgrass kangaroo today.
Flock of seagulls 1988
There are no words....
UDHS yearbook photo.
Dusting off the old high school yearbook
Staying at my parents' house this weekend. I busted out the old HS yearbook. Upper Darby High School 1988 -- Look who I graduated with!
Tina Fey has enjoyed a small modicum of success since leaving Upper Darby.
Chris Westbury might have killed me if I hadn't corrected this
Canada's essentially the same thing as the United States, right?