If I saw it, it probably wasn't far from where I was looking

If I saw it, it probably wasn't far from where I was looking.

People are most likely to see something if their gaze is directed at it. Thus if they saw something they may be biased towards believing that they had been looking at it. In order to examine whether this is so we asked participants where a target that jumped to a new position every 250 ms had been at a moment indicated by a flash or a tone. The jumping introduced uncertainty about where the tar...

I remember...it was December.

William Osler is quoted as saying, "Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life-the poetry of the commonplace, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs."(1) A family physician reflects how he continues to derive sustenance from having cared ...

I went; I saw: I was never the same!

‘I Know it was Every Week, but I Can't be Sure if it was Every Day: Domestic Violence and Women with Learning Disabilities

BACKGROUND Domestic violence against women is well researched in the general population, but much less so in relation to women with learning disabilities. This qualitative research study interviewed 15 women with learning disabilities who had experienced domestic violence about their experiences, the impact of the violence on them and their children, their coping strategies and help seeking beh...

If it was good enough for Aristotle......

‘If you want to understand today you have to search yesterday ’ wrote the American novelist Pearl Buck, and such is the challenge facing those who hope to disentangle the pathogenesis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The disease is characterised by the insidious but progressive development of fibrosis that culminates in respiratory failure and death, usually within 5 years of diagnosis. ...