First person profile: Chanita Hughes‐Halbert, PhD

First Year PhD Transition

Merging second-person and first-person neuroscience.

Schilbach et al. contrast second-person and third-person approaches to social neuroscience. We discuss relations between second-person and first-person approaches, arguing that they cannot be studied in isolation. Contingency is central for converging first- and second-person approaches. Studies of embodiment show how contingencies scaffold first-person perspective and how the transition from a...

Future Person Localization in First-Person Videos

We present a new task that predicts future locations of people observed in first-person videos. Consider a firstperson video stream continuously recorded by a wearable camera. Given a short clip of a person that is extracted from the complete stream, we aim to predict that person’s location in future frames. To facilitate this future person localization ability, we make the following three key ...

J. Barry McKernan, MD, PhD—A Profile

Dr. Barry McKernan, who performed the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the United States, has followed a surgical trail that truly represents the spirit of the American surgeon. He completed his undergraduate studies at a time when American medicine, American surgery, and clinically related research were beginning their Golden Age. The interval was the mid 1960s. Medical students and gradu...

First Person Singular


Brian
Rotman
argues
that
(one)
“mind”
and
(one)
“god”
are
 only
conceivable,
literally,
because
of
(alphabetic)
literacy,
which
 allowed
us
to
designate
each
of
these
ghosts
as
an
incorporeal,
speaker‐ independent
“I”
(or,
in
the
case
of
infinity,
a
notional
agent
that
goes
on
 counting
forever).
I
argue
that
to
have
a
mind
is
to
have
the
capacity
to
 feel.
No
one
can
be
sure
which
organisms
f...