Childhood disability and how we see the world

How we see ourselves and how we see others.

People see themselves differently from how they see others. They are immersed in their own sensations, emotions, and cognitions at the same time that their experience of others is dominated by what can be observed externally. This basic asymmetry has broad consequences. It leads people to judge themselves and their own behavior differently from how they judge others and those others' behavior. ...

How autistics see the world

In their stimulating discussion of monkey communication and socialisation, Cheney & Seyfarth (C & S) mention autism as an example of the dissociation possible between social and nonsocial intelligence (p. 270). We would like to suggest that autism is also an important example for many of the other points raised in this excellent book. Although the authors suggest a parallel between vervet and n...

Colour : How We See It and How We Use It

How Do We See Color?

WHAT IS COLOR GOOD FOR? Although our distant ancestors probably first used color vision to find fruit in trees, it is still useful to us. Even though most of us will never have to defuse a bomb (Figure 1), colors are used to send all sorts of important messages in the modern world. Traffic lights turn from green to red to tell us to stop (Figure 2), warning lights turn orange on the car dashboa...

How we see electronic games.

Theories regarding the influences of electronic games drive scientific study, popular debate, and public policy. The fractious interchanges among parents, pundits, and scholars hint at the rich phenomenological and psychological dynamics that underlie how people view digital technologies such as games. The current research applied Martin Heidegger's concept of interpretive frameworks (Heidegger...