Affect—or feeling (after Leys)

Evaluating Affector: Co-Interpreting What “Works”

INTRODUCTION Affector is an interactive installation intended to stimulate reflection on and interpretation of emotions, based on an autobiographical design method in which the same people are designers, users, and evaluators. Evaluating Affector is challenging because we cannot evaluate the system by itself, but instead need to consider the role of users, designers and evaluators in actively a...

Feeling sounds after a thalamic lesion.

OBJECTIVE The ventrolateral nucleus of the thalamus (VL), based on its connectivity with the cerebellum and motor cortex, has long been considered to be involved with motor functions. We show that the human VL also plays a prominent role in sensory processing. METHODS Structural magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion tensor imaging were used to localize a small lesion restricted to the righ...

What feeling is the "feeling of knowing?".

Having a word on the tip of our tongue is a mundane and slightly annoying experience. And yet, as Brown’s article helps us see, the theoretical implications of a TOT experience range very widely. The study of TOTs may also turn out to be useful for larger methodological reasons. Here, too, Brown recognizes that the investigation of TOTs offers an especially good example of convergent cognitive ...

Optimal Economic Length of Leys: a Dynamic Programming Approach

A model is presented to investigate the optimal economic life cycle of grass leys with winter damage problems in northern Norway and to determine the threshold of winter damage before it is profitable to reseed. A two-level hierarchic Markov process has been constructed using the MLHMP software. The model takes uncertainty concerning yield potential, damage estimation and weather dependent rand...

Shame Now: Ruth Leys Diagnoses the New Queer Shame Culture