The Mirror and Manners: Watching, Being Watched, and Watching Oneself in Rococo Spaces

Watching others' actions: mirror representations in the parietal cortex.

An observation that neurons in the motor cortex of the monkey are active both when the monkey performs a specific action and when he watches an actor executing the same action led to the mirror-system hypothesis. This hypothesis suggests that primates perceive and interpret others' actions by generating an internal motor representation (e.g., simulation). Recent evidence suggests that humans ha...

Watching You Watching Me: The Art of Playing the Panopticon

As governments increasingly deliver services over the Internet, the opportunities for monitoring and surveillance of society increase. In public services to support the vulnerable, such as welfare, monitoring and surveillance functionality is often regarded by system designers as important components in defences against fraud and system misuse. However, the responses from the participants in th...

Membrane Watching

Several things, that were not all of my own choosing, have conspired to keep me out of active participation in membrane events for a while. But the spectator sport that I call "membrane watching" is far from dull. It may be as rewarding as such things as birds, Congress, girls, bali games, or the Berkeley campus-particularly when you feel yourself somewhat qualified. Of course you lose the trem...

Watching the watchman.

e know that the risk of stroke is increased in patients with trial fibrillation (AF), presumably because stagnant blood ow within the left atrium leads to thrombus formation. mportantly, 90% of thrombi, when seen by echocardiograhy in patients with nonrheumatic AF, are located in the eft atrial appendage (LAA) (1,2). Standard treatment of atients with AF is anticoagulation with warfarin. If war...

[Watching the river flow].