“A Speculation Regarding the Senses”

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This paper demonstrates that investor irrationality can be contagious across markets. Supplementing existing studies on resale option theory, we illustrate that warrant speculation could spill over to the underlying stock market. Our findings indicate that high turnover of underlying stocks is associated with previous day’s high unexpected turnover of warrants, or previous day’s larger price de...

Merging of the Senses

When we are constantly and simultaneously bombarded with various types of sensory inputs, how do we make decisions or motor outputs to deal with the world in a meaningful manner? This is a central issue in multisensory integration. One example of such type of processing is eating, as placing food in one's mouth provides taste, olfactory and somatosensory (texture, temperature) information (Verh...

Food Speculation

Sorting the Senses Stephen

This volume is about the many ways we perceive. Contributors explore the nature of the individual senses, how and what they tell us about the world, and how they interrelate. They often represent competing views: for instance, some argue that perception uses the senses in concert, while others are content, at least for present purposes, to leave unchallenged the traditional assumption that we p...

The kinaesthetic senses.

This review of kinaesthesia, the senses of limb position and limb movement, has been prompted by recent new observations on the role of motor commands in position sense. They make it necessary to reassess the present-day views of the underlying neural mechanisms. Peripheral receptors which contribute to kinaesthesia are muscle spindles and skin stretch receptors. Joint receptors do not appear t...